JDSutter.me

As a podcaster, blogger, and creative in other areas, I have often needed a tool to transcribe an audio file. Historically, that was an expensive prospect. Years ago, I would hire humans to transcribe interviews, but because of the cost, I was only able to do that when it was absolutely imperative to a project's success. A few years ago, automated transcription tools came on the scene, and while a perfectly great option, they were also not cheap and often pretty inaccurate. But recently, I discovered another excellent option. Don Burnside , a developer and podcasting colleague of mine, launched Voxtext , an app for Mac and Windows that transcribes audio and video files for free! It supports plain text, .srt, .vtt, and more. The software does all the processing on your local machine, so your content never gets uploaded anywhere, but this also means that its speed depends on the specs of your machine. I have been testing this tool for a couple of weeks now, and it has been working gr...