Scribie

Scribie sells transcripts rather than software: audio goes up, people check what the machine produced, and a document comes back. Pricing is per minute of audio with no subscription, which suits somebody who needs three interviews transcribed properly and nothing next month. Accuracy guarantees, faster turnaround and difficult audio are priced as separate additions. Anybody who wants a live editor and a searchable archive should buy one of the subscription tools instead.

The base rate is $0.80 a minute, which the page works out as $48 an hour of audio, with a court reporter option including custom formatting at $1.30. The add-ons are where a real order departs from the headline: verbatim accuracy adds $0.50 a minute, priority turnaround adds $1.25, and noisy or accented audio adds $0.50. A difficult hour ordered fast can therefore land near three times the advertised rate. Bulk work is quoted rather than priced.

Somebody with a small number of recordings that must be right, where an automated transcript would cost more in correction time than the difference in price. Legal, research and interview work fit the model. Anybody transcribing continuously wants a subscription tool with an editor and a searchable archive, since paying by the minute forever is the expensive way to do that.