TurboScribe

TurboScribe is an AI transcription tool that converts audio and video files into text, built for anyone who regularly records interviews, meetings, lectures, or podcasts and needs an accurate written version fast. It's aimed at journalists, researchers, students, podcasters, and business teams who would otherwise pay for manual transcription or spend hours typing recordings out by hand.

What does TurboScribe do?

You upload an audio or video file, and TurboScribe returns a text transcript within seconds to minutes depending on length, powered by OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model. The service supports files up to 10 hours long on paid plans and can label who is speaking when multiple people are on a recording, which is useful for interviews and meeting notes.

Beyond a plain transcript, TurboScribe can translate the output into more than 130 languages, generate subtitle files for video, and clean up recordings with poor audio quality using a built-in noise reduction option. Three transcription speed and accuracy modes, named Cheetah, Dolphin, and Whale, let users trade off turnaround time against precision depending on the job.

Core features

• Transcription in 98-plus languages powered by OpenAI's Whisper model.
• Speaker recognition that labels each section of a transcript by who is talking.
• Translation of finished transcripts or subtitles into more than 130 languages.
• An option to transcribe non-English audio directly into English text.
• Three transcription modes (Cheetah, Dolphin, Whale) balancing speed against accuracy.
• An audio restoration tool that reduces background noise before transcribing.
• Exports as DOCX, PDF, TXT, CSV, and subtitle formats SRT and VTT.
• Support for uploads up to 10 hours or 5GB, with up to 50 files processed at once on paid plans.

Use cases

Podcasters and video creators use TurboScribe to generate searchable transcripts and subtitle files for every episode, which also helps with accessibility and search visibility. Researchers and journalists use it to transcribe recorded interviews quickly instead of typing them out by hand, keeping the speaker labels intact for multi-person conversations.

• Turning a recorded university lecture into a study-ready written transcript.
• Converting a client call or team meeting recording into notes with each speaker labeled.
• Adding subtitles to a video in a second language for an international audience.

Pricing

TurboScribe Free allows 3 transcripts a day, with files capped at 30 minutes and one upload at a time, at no cost and no account required for a first try. TurboScribe Unlimited costs $10 a month when billed yearly at $120, or $20 a month billed monthly, and removes the daily cap entirely while raising the file limit to 10 hours or 5GB, with up to 50 files uploaded at once, translation, and highest-priority processing.

How to use TurboScribe

1. Go to turboscribe.ai and drag an audio or video file into the upload box, or sign up first for higher limits.
2. Choose the audio language and pick a transcription mode: Cheetah, Dolphin, or Whale.
3. Turn on speaker recognition if the recording has more than one person talking.
4. Click Transcribe and wait for the file to process, usually seconds to a few minutes.
5. Review the transcript, then download it as DOCX, PDF, TXT, or a subtitle file.
6. Upgrade to Unlimited if you need longer uploads, bulk files, or translation into another language.

Frequently asked questions

Learn more at TurboScribe.