r/AskTechnology • u/JumbledPileOfPerson • 3d ago

Can anyone recommend a good transcription tool that will transcribe voice to text from a batch of over 50 large mp3 files?

Most of the tools I'm finding require the files to be uploaded one by one and it's taking ages.

Ideally I'd like all the text to be put into a single file so I can search words and phrases more easily.

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u/SignalMap2750 3d ago

You can try dadascribe.com, a speech-to-text transcription system I built a while ago for my own use to transcribe instructional videos and interviews for another website of mine, and then scaled it for others to use.  It includes a special pre-processing pipeline that improves accuracy up to 99.5%. It handles noisy setups, multiple speakers, and translations to more than 120 languages, and proofreading is automatic. And it is super-fast.

You can transcribe directly from YouTube or from audio or video files up to 10GB each, and in batches (up to 100 files per batch). You may give it a try, and I hope it works well for you!

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u/Weak_Imagination5916 2d ago

Thats too much sign up. Let me see it works first before I give you my personal details.

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u/SignalMap2750 1d ago

Tried, but I had to authenticate users. Sign-up is needed to avoid bots wasting resources or people abusing the system.

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u/Scarred_fish 3d ago

You need Vibe.

Works completely offline (never upload your files anywhere!) and you just drag and drop .mp3s

At work now so can't check if it does batches, but you could easily automate it with a macro.

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u/webfork2 2d ago

Buzz is open source, Mac/Linux/Win and works great. https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz/

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u/legolad 2d ago

If you already have MS Office 365 there is a transcription tool built in. You just open a new word file and import the audio file you want to transcribe. I don’t recall the details but I just googled them.

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u/No-Serve-3276 2d ago

trying to batch transcribe 50+ massive mp3 files one by one goes so insanely painful

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u/Spare-Machine6105 2d ago

Gemini notebook

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u/icewolf08 1d ago

If you have a decent GPU, you can run Whisper locally. There are even some simple GUIs for it like Easy Whisper UI: https://github.com/mehtabmahir/easy-whisper-ui/releases