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Both cover captions & subtitles and transcription & show notes. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
| Happy Scribe | Trint | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $8.50 | From $79 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | None | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Everything, in an open format | Not stated |
| Their cut | Not stated | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web | Not stated |
| Covers | Captions & Subtitles, Transcription & Show Notes | Transcription & Show Notes, Captions & Subtitles |
| Works with | YouTube, Podcast | Nothing in particular |
| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
Transcripts and subtitles in 60-plus languages
Happy Scribe does machine transcription and subtitles, and will sell you a human pass over the top when the machine is not good enough. The export list is long, including the subtitle formats an editor actually needs. Minutes are metered per year rather than per month, which suits lumpy production.
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Transcription built for newsrooms
Trint transcribes and translates at newsroom scale, with live transcription from a phone, shared drives for a team and an editor that keeps text locked to audio while several people work in the same file. It is the dearest thing in this category by a distance. What that buys is unlimited volume under a fair-use cap, 50 languages in and 70 out.
Our note
This is the top of the market and priced like it. Unless several people are editing the same transcript, or the deadline is measured in minutes, Sonix or TurboScribe do the transcription for a fraction of the money.
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