Thursday, 14 August 2025

Transkriptor send me an email and it proved to be very disappointing


I got an email from Transkriptor inviting me to try it again saying that it was now "free."

So, for the first time in just over a year, I tried Transkriptor again. This is what I found with my 'trial account', where I had plenty of minutes' credit left:

  • Easy to edit out errors in the transcript
  • Easy to export the transcript without speakers and timestamps on the app
  • Easy to paste transcript into ChatGPT and then add 9-step prompt at the beginning
After that, it was all down to the ChatGPT app and everything worked just as well as with Turboscribe.ai


So I made a video of the recording playing on Transkriptor and then of the 9 steps on the ChatGPT app on my Android phone and posted it on my YouTube channel. I have since deleted the video as I subsequently discovered this:


If you want a 'free account' you need to give your credit card details, which I wouldn't recommend and haven't done, so I will never discover whether you get 30 minutes every day split among any number of recordings or just one transcription of up to 30 minutes. I suspect the latter.

If you have a 'trial account' with Transkriptor, there are limitations on the length (5 minutes) and percentage (80%) of your recording that will be transcribed, so I can't really recommend that. The workaround is to keep recording anything whatsoever for a quarter of the time after the time you have recorded! 

But don't bother - stick to Turboscribe.ai 





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