Transcriptionist Press Kit
Quick Overview
Transcriptionist takes audio files and turns them into text — quickly and privately, on your own iPhone, iPad or Apple Silicon Mac instead of the cloud — in almost 100 languages. Whether you want to:
- create polished transcripts, or subtitles for publication,
- skim the contents of an audio file without having to listen to the whole thing,
- search an audio file to find a particular quote or favourite moment,
...Transcriptionist can help. Edit the text in the app, or export it in a variety of popular formats (including Markdown, HTML and subtitle files), or teach it your own custom format.
Transcriptionist integrates with our popular iOS podcast editing app Ferrite Recording Studio to prepare podcast transcripts, but is equally useful as a standalone app.
Key Features
Playback: You can always listen back to the audio, not just read the text.
- Playback progress is shown alongside the text.
- Tap/click to jump playback to a particular line.
- Play back at up to 2× speed.
Multi-track: If you import multiple audio files — one per person — Transcriptionist will combine them into a single transcript where you can both read and hear what everyone said.
- Avoids issues with “cross-talk”: Transcriptionist listens to each audio file individually.
- This also means it knows who said what, and can attribute their quotes accordingly.
- Can “solo” or “mute” speakers when listening back.
Ferrite integration: A new update to Ferrite (v3.1) will be released simultaneously with Transcriptionist, and supports integrating the two apps.
- Export projects from Ferrite to Transcriptionist.
- Each Ferrite track appears as a separate participant in your transcript.
- Includes MP3 Chapters and chapter art.
Note: Ferrite is currently available for iPhone and iPad, but not Mac. However, if you like, you can export transcription projects from Ferrite on iOS direct to your Mac for transcribing, using AirDrop, or a cloud storage service such as iCloud Drive.
Stylish exports: Export .md Markdown, .html web pages, .pdf documents, .csv tables, .vtt or .srt subtitles, or create your own custom text formats.
- HTML and PDF support includes a variety of styles, with options to highlight different speakers with colour.
- Custom formats can be designed with the built-in editor. No obscure variables or coding required: use interactive “tokens” to include info from the transcript and set the format to use.
- Select and copy paragraphs in most formats (including custom ones), ready to paste quotes into articles, content management systems, etc.
The Checklist
Various items that aren't key features or might seem obvious, but just in case you want to check, “so, is this supported?”
- Transcriptionist itself is only available in English at this time, although the list of languages it can transcribe is long: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar, Nepali, Norwegian, Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, and Yoruba.
- Supports names, short names, and roles (e.g. “CEO”, or “Hamlet”) for speakers.
- Supports colour-coding speakers.
- Supports VoiceOver and Voice Control accessibility features.
- Supports iPad multi-tasking (Split View and Stage Manager).
- Supports iPad keyboard and pointing devices, and plenty of keyboard shortcuts on all platforms.
- Supports drag-and-drop (all platforms), standard iOS "Share Sheet", standard macOS file handling, and standard iOS document browser.
- Supports search and replace, including “regular expression” search for power users.
- Supports Dark Mode.
- Supports the Apple Neural Engine to accelerate transcription.
- Comprehensive built-in User Guide and searchable FAQ.
Subscriptions
Transcriptionist is available as a free download with limited features. The complete feature set is available as a $19.99/year (or $3.49/month) subscription, with a 7-day free trial for new users to try out in full before they buy. A subscription unlocks:
- All AI Brain sizes.†
- Unlimited transcription duration.
- Variable-speed audio playback.
- Additional HTML and PDF export styles.
- Custom formats for exporting/copying.
- (on iOS) Alternative app icons.
Note: If you cancel your subscription, your existing transcripts are not affected — even if they are over the duration limit for free users. You can still view, listen to and edit them, and export them in common formats.
† As long as they'll fit in your device's memory. A Mac can fit any brain size, as can modern high-end iPad Pro models, but some iPhone or iPad devices may not be able to fit all brains.
Availability
- Transcriptionist 1.0 will be released on 18th September 2013 and will be available from the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/app/id6447059405 for iOS 16.2 or later and macOS 13.3 “Ventura” or later.
- Transcriptionist for macOS is a native Mac app (not a “Catalyst” or “iPad on Mac” app), and requires an Apple Silicon Mac.
- A subscription to Transcriptionist works across iPhone, iPad and Mac, regardless of which device you purchase on.
Usage Tips
- Trying out transcriptions in languages other than English? Make sure to select a Worldwide AI Brain in the Settings!
- Looking for Settings or assistance on iOS? Tap the “Gear” button in the toolbar of the document browser to access Settings, User Guide, FAQs, Customer Support and more.
About Wooji Juice
Wooji Juice have been developing apps for Apple platforms for over 15 years — their first iOS app was available in the App Store the day the store opened. Their software synthesisers have been used by bands like Gorillaz and The Flaming Lips, and their podcast editor Ferrite Recording Studio won Upgrade's Best New iOS App the year it was released, and has been featured by Apple in their WWDC Keynote.