Transcribe vs Otter Transcribe Voice Notes

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Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] Transcribe 5/5 · US Top of the Line features: I found the following features very helpful, 1. Transcribes m4a audio files very accurately and very fast! 2. It transcribes a 30min audio file in matter of minutes 3. It very accurately identifies different speakers & assigns speech text to them. 4. Allows me to update the name of the speakers within the app itself. 5. I can easily export the Transcript to an email recip
2. [R9] Transcribe 3/5 · US Voice Memos yes; Live not so much: I really liked this app and used it to transcribe Voice Memos. Speaker identification is pretty accurate as most of the transcription. Expensive compared to other apps at $6/hr. Doesn’t edit out the “uhms” and “uhs.” I switched to live transcription ($15 monthly fee, unlimited) only to find a significant drop in accuracy even dropping several words in sentences.
3. [R65] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 5/5 · US The best app ever!: Love using otter to transcribe any audio files I need transcription for. I’ve tried everything and it’s been the most accurate.
4. [R68] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 5/5 · US Excellent Voice Notes: We’ve been using the software for almost 7 years now. It works fantastic for us. Otter keeps improving; their AI summaries and QA are super useful!
5. [R32] Transcribe 5/5 · US So easy to use!: I used this on a whim to transcribe a court case and it took less than 5 min from download to learn what to do and do it. 30 min transcript broken down with speaker and time.
6. [R36] Transcribe 3/5 · US Can upload from phone: Overall I’m happy with the app in terms the the talk to text function. However, I’m not sure I will be using it any longer because for months I haven’t been able to upload videos to the app on my iPhone. When I first got the app that function worked great but something changed. Now I have to upload to my computer then upload to the app.
7. [R66] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 3/5 · US Best Assistant Ever: This application is the best and most helpful tool to capture notes and deliverables in my meetings. It’s always accurate and detailed.
8. [R69] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 3/5 · US Meh: Recording meetings and getting a transcript in AI you can ask questions to. It's helpful, don't get me wrong, but Vaught has let that be their ace, and they really haven't made a very good user experience. • If you go to hit record, you can't start recording immediately. • If you have a calendar event distinct, you've got to choose what meeting the recording is before it starts capturing a
9. [R3] Transcribe 3/5 · US Use to be a great app: Not sure what happened but it started to become less accurate, takes forever to upload and took away hours I didn’t use and now says I’m at 0. This use to be my go to, and transcribed well especially adding speakers assigned to the transcriptions. I’m moving on to other apps, but hopefully they fix this for future users.
10. [R7] Transcribe 2/5 · US Not accurate at all: I wanted to use this to record a conversation between myself and a Spanish speaking lawyer and his assistant. They were speaking Spanish to each other and me English. The voice pickup was horrible (iPhone 13) and the translations were extremely spotty and didn’t make sense. I would not use this for any conversations which are important. Really disappointed.
11. [R85] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 1/5 · US Huge dip in quality: I discovered Otter in 2022, and it basically helped me write half of my book. The speech to text was clean and quick, and it would break up the transcription into actual sentences. Today, I returned to it as I’m writing another book. I did two 20 min recordings. It lost the last 5 minutes of one of these recordings. Back in 2022, I paid for premium and used it hundreds of hour
12. [R109] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 1/5 · US Issues with otter: Hello Otter Support, I’m very disappointed with the app’s recent performance. It started out strong, but lately it has become unreliable. When I press “record,” it sometimes does not start recording, or it becomes unresponsive. As a result, I have missed important meeting notes and manual recordings. I also noticed that since the pause/stop button began appearing on the screen
13. [R21] Transcribe 3/5 · US Expensive: Too Expensive
14. [R53] Transcribe 1/5 · US Pay by the hour: Free for 15 minutes then makes you pay a heavy price by the hour
15. [R62] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 4/5 · US Too expensive: I like the AI service but I find it expensive because some months I don’t use it at all but lose all the minutes and some months I use it heavily and run out of minutes. So would be great if our minutes could be rolled over.
16. [R91] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 1/5 · US subscription: every app just HAS to include some sort of money grab/subscription. what lecture is only 30 minutes? just taking advantage of students/people with disabilities who would really benefit from this. $16.99 a month is also insane!! so greedy, you can make money from advertising or make it more affordable. i’ll be looking for an alternative.
17. [R29] Transcribe 5/5 · US Excellent app! Excellent customer service!: I absolutely love the Transcribe app! Its accuracy exceeded my expectations, and when I ran into a glitch I couldn’t figure out, Mikhail came to the rescue right away and helped me resolve it. What impressed me most was how incredibly responsive he was, no matter when I emailed, he got back to me quickly with clear, step-by-step instructions. I actually s
18. [R41] Transcribe 5/5 · US Great customer service!: I had a problem with a purchase, and the Support Team solved it easily and effectively in a very responsive manner. Not only an excellent transcript service, but also 100% reliable and responsive.
19. [R112] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 2/5 · US Bad customer service: I have been using this app for many years but their customer service is very bad takes forever to get response.
20. [R118] Otter Transcribe Voice Notes 1/5 · US NO REFUNDS - BEWARE: The app makes it extremely difficult to cancel the free trial. I missed the cancel trial deadline by a few minutes and was charged a $89.99 fee. The company is not allowing any refunds and now I am stuck with a subscription I do not need for a whole year. BEWARE! They offer zero flexibility.
21. [R49] Transcribe 1/5 · US Everyone should know up front...: It cost 4.99 an hour.