TurboScribe — AI audio and video transcription with speaker labels

• TurboScribe

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  Pricing

  • Free daily allowance, then a single unlimited tier
  • Monthly or annual billing; annual costs roughly half

• Otter.ai

  Pricing

  • Free tier of monthly minutes, then per-seat plans
  • Paid tiers raise both the meter and the per-conversation cap

• Rev

  Pricing

  • Free monthly AI minutes, then per-minute AI pricing
  • Subscriptions discount per-minute work; human is priced per minute

1. TurboScribe — official site
2. TurboScribe — pricing
3. Otter.ai — pricing
4. Rev — pricing

Free tier

Yes

Pricing summary

TurboScribe keeps pricing to two lanes rather than a stack of tiers. Free accounts get three transcripts a day with no credit card, capped at thirty minutes per file, one file at a time, and lower queue priority. The unlimited plan is billed monthly or annually—annual costs roughly half the monthly rate—and lifts per-file length to multi-hour uploads, allows large batch uploads, removes the daily volume limit for a single person, and adds bulk exports, unlimited storage, and the highest queue priority. Accounts cannot be shared between people, and the publisher documents what to do at unusually heavy volumes. Confirm current billing amounts on the official pricing page—this page does not list currency amounts.

Reviewed on 13 September 2026 · TurboScribe — pricing

• Long-file and batch uploads

  The paid tier takes multi-hour, multi-gigabyte files and pushes many of them through at once, so a podcast back catalogue or a folder of interviews does not have to be cut into pieces first.

• Three speech recognition modes

  A fastest mode, a balanced default, and a most-accurate mode trade speed against accuracy, so you can pick a quick pass for a rough draft or the slow, meticulous one for a finished transcript.

• Speaker recognition

  Each section of the transcript can be labelled with who is speaking, and you can indicate how many speakers to expect—useful for interviews, panels, and multi-person calls.

• Caption and document exports

  Finished transcripts download as TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, or timed SRT and VTT subtitle files, with bulk actions to export a whole batch at once instead of one file at a time.

• Built-in translation

  A finished transcript or subtitle file can be translated into another language, and any-language audio can be transcribed straight into English in a single pass instead of transcribing then translating.

• Audio restoration for rough recordings

  An optional cleanup pass reduces background noise and enhances speech before transcription, which the publisher positions as a last resort for files whose audio quality is genuinely poor.

1. 1

   Create a free account

   Sign up with an email address. The free allowance is three transcripts a day and no credit card is required, which is enough to test accuracy on your own recordings before paying.

2. 2

   Upload a file or paste a link

   Drag in common audio or video formats, or import from a link. Free accounts take one file at a time and are capped per file length; paid accounts take long files and large batches.

3. 3

   Set language and recognition options

   Choose the spoken language, pick a recognition mode for the speed-versus-accuracy trade-off, and switch on speaker recognition or audio restoration when the recording needs them.

4. 4

   Review the transcript

   The result opens in the browser with timestamps you can toggle on and off. Check speaker labels and fix names, jargon, and product terms before the transcript goes anywhere.

5. 5

   Export, batch-export, or translate

   Download a single transcript, run bulk actions over a whole set, or send it through the translation tool when the text is destined for another language or for subtitles.

• Podcasters and long-form video creators

  Turn episodes and hour-long videos into show notes, article drafts, and caption files without splitting the recording or counting minutes.

• Video editors and post-production

  Produce SRT and VTT caption tracks plus searchable transcripts from interview and B-roll audio in one pass through the same file.

• Researchers and interviewers

  Work through a backlog of recorded interviews, label who is speaking, and search the text instead of re-listening to hours of tape.

• Anyone clearing a large archive

  Clear stored calls, lectures, or testimonials in bulk, where per-minute pricing would scale straight up with the size of the archive.

Browser-only workspace

Signing up, uploading, reviewing, translating, and exporting all happen in the browser with nothing installed locally, and the account keeps transcripts available for later download.

Powered by Whisper

Transcription runs on OpenAI’s open Whisper speech-recognition models rather than a proprietary in-house engine, which is where the broad spoken-language coverage comes from.

Free-allowance boundaries

The free tier is limited per day, per file length, and to one file at a time, and it sits in a lower queue priority than paying accounts—so it is a trial of accuracy, not a way to run an archive.

Cloud processing and storage

Files and transcripts are processed on the publisher’s servers using US-based infrastructure rather than on your device, encrypted and scoped to your account, and removable at any time on request.