Transcriptions App Reviews

My main issue, and the reason why I’m no longer using the app, is that it doesn’t use the keyboard’s play buttons. Instead, one has to use ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc. This is not so easy to do while typing, as it requires two fingers. The ergonomics made me abandon using the app.

Waste of time trying this app. It doesn’t work at all!

Great for a free app. I don’t give 5 stars because there’s always something to improve.

It would be great if you put some information about language supported by the app. I would have been happy to pay for brazilian portuguese :)

Looked good but it can’t open the audio files created by my audio recorder. I’d understand except that they are MP3 files the most common audio file format.

Says that the application is not based on AV Kit… okay… but it crashes because it can not find it...

I was anxious about downloading a free app to aid in my transcription process for my research. Turns out I could not even open the app. I will be investing in something a little more reliable. It is a bad start when the app never launches.

Perfect! love it.

I’ve looked at and used a lot of Mac transcription software (what can I say, I’m a cheap grad student). My previous tool is now a little expensive for what you get. Transcriptions is an excellent replacement, and it’s what I’ll be recommending from here on out. It does what you need — timecodes, speed control, text substitutions — with very little interface bloat. Yay! My one request is for a frame capture function so I can grab stills of important moments.

This is perfect for my needs. Nothing fancy, but has just the features I need to easily transcribe video. (Short of doing it for me!)

This is a very important little app for the qualitative researcher. Very much needed and as a graduate student, I’m glad it’s free. :-).

This does almost all you need for transcription, but one thing it is lacking is the ability to speed up playback. This lets you more quickly move through slow sections of a recording. The application does let you slow down playback, so it should be a simple change to also speed up playback. It would be even better to add controls to toggle slow/fast playback. I currently use an old version of Quicktime just for the ability to speed up playback, but it lacks Transcriptions’ ability to skip back a set number of seconds with a keyboard control.

As an IT Project Manager, I do a lot of meetings. I needed a simply way to play back my recorded meetings and transcribe the pertinent information. I did not need a bunch of fancy bells and whistles. This program is exactly what I needed. It offers me the simple tools I need to transcribe. I like the adjustable loopback feature where I can program a function to loop back a segment of audio/video (From 1 to 10 seconds). It time stamps each segment, allowing me the chance to go back and look at it over again at another time; or, I can manually time stamp anuy spot in the transcription. Saving in RTF is perfect. I can import into MS Word or Apple Pages if I desire.

It’s not only the only software for this in OS X, it’s also really good. I can only assume the lack of deeper interest/praise is due to people not knowing it exists.

I have hours of interviews to transcribe for a book I’m writing. I wanted to be able to do transcription without having to manage both my digital recorder and a laptop. This app works very well; I especially like that it enters a time stamp every time you hit Enter while you’re typing, so it’s easy to go back and find a relevant place in the recording later on. You can save transcriptions as rtf files directly from the app; I’d prefer Word files but maybe that’s not possible. What would make this a five-star app: The ability to speed up playback as well as slow it down; sometimes you just want to skip past stuff.

This is a great app. Free is always better than the $25 charged by competitors, but I liked it so much, I send them a donation straight away. Well done, David Haselberger.

Great app and as a professional transcriber I’m picky. Only thing keeping it from a 5 star rating is the lack of a fast forward option and rewind option (different from recue), and ability to assign Function keys to program shortcuts. I like to try and keep my shotcuts the same across platforms. Other than that it’s perfect for what I need it for on my Mac which is quick files. Would love to see it come to iOS if it’s not already there.

Went ok for a couple of short jobs, but now timestamps are off and keeps shutting down. Cursor freezes and won’t click where I want it. Not having trouble in other programs with that - just this one. My file I am transcribing is about 300 M. Should not be a problem like this. I wish I could get a refund.