
We rated our favorite services based on the following criteria: pricing, ease of use, speed, features, and most importantly, transcription accuracy. One recording was clean, with no background noise, and the other was the same interview clip with added music with vocals in the background.

Since there are at least a dozen services out there, ranging from companies that employ humans to ones that use AI, and even hybrids of the two, we decided to put 10 of the most popular services to the test.įor our test we used two two-minute iPhone recordings from a recent interview with Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam. As a reporter, I rely on them on a nearly daily basis to turn hours of conversations with subjects and sources into accurate text files that I can use when writing articles. Whether you work in media, law, education, data analysis, finance, compliance, or simply need to record your Zoom meetings to read over later, you’re likely in need of a good transcription service.
