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Transcriva

Make transcription tasks simple.

Lose the Dictaphone

Dictaphones are yesterday's news. Transcriva turns the mechanical chore of transcribing audio recordings into a natural, fluid process with the simplicity only a Mac application can offer. The unique chat-like interface produces a clean, concise transcript whether you're transcribing a single speaker's dictation or the Board's meeting minutes. Transcriva works with most any audio format supported by Apple QuickTime. Add a clip, press play, and start typing - the only thing easier is making someone else do it for you!

Comfortable Control

Transcriva goes the extra mile, giving form and function equal treatment. All the features reserved for the 'Cadillacs' of Dictaphones are present in Transcriva - with a Mac twist.

An adjustable playback speed lets you work more slowly for fast talkers and more quickly for slow ones, while the backtrack-on-pause feature lets you easily pick up where you left off without the guesswork.

The Follow-Along feature keeps the transcript view synchronized with the playhead during playback and while moving the playhead with the mouse. It works the other way, too - click an entry anywhere in the transcript and the playhead automatically jumps to the start time of that entry.

Transcriva's most common controls are keyboard-driven, allowing you to control audio playback as well as entry creation and navigation without constantly reaching for the mouse. The fully programmable keyboard shortcuts let you define and work within your own comfort zone.

Transcriva also works with USB foot pedals for even easier control. Please see the foot pedal fact sheet for more information.

Neat-Freak

Transcriva takes a "speakers and entries" approach to transcripts. Rather than treat the entire transcript as one large text document, your transcript is broken into 'entries' (whether you have multiple speakers or not). This keeps your transcript well-organized so finding specific segments of your transcript is fast and easy. Markers indicate the position of each entry in the audio track and the playhead changes color to indicate the speaker of the current entry (when using color-coded speakers) as it moves across the track.

Beyond Transcription

Transcriva's usefulness doesn't end when you've completed your transcript. A Transcriva transcript document is easily used as a valuable reference tool. With the "speaker/entry" approach, searching and navigating your transcript is fast and easy. Tiger users can even use Spotlight to search their transcripts.

When you're ready to use a word processor or page layout tool to polish up your transcript for presentation, use the Export feature. Transcriva can export to standard Rich Text Format (rtf) or plain text (txt), which any word processor or layout application (such as Microsoft Word, or Apple Pages, TextEdit, and even CopyWrite) can read. Transcriva will not lock you in!

Who It's Meant For

Transcriva strikes a balance between automation and pricing. Other software applications can turn live or recorded speech directly into text automatically using voice recognition, but that added convenience costs an arm and a leg and computer voice recognition itself is still nowhere near as accurate as the human ear. What's more, a computer can't easily distinguish between different speakers - a human is still required. Transcriva does require you to do the listening and typing but it gives you maximum flexibility, a beautiful, easy-to-use interface, simple multiple speaker support, and plenty of polish. The result is a powerful tool with a low price tag. If you need a transcription tool without the added expense or accuracy problems of voice recognition packages, Transcriva is exactly what you've been looking for.

Try It Free

Transcriva is completely free to try with some limitations. Unregistered users can only have two audio clips in a transcript and only two speakers. The audio controls are disabled after twenty minutes of use (but can be reset by exiting and restarting Transcriva). Exported transcripts are also 'watermarked'. All of these limitations can be removed by purchasing a license and registering. This allows anybody to try Transcriva as long as they like, completely free.

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