Happy Scribe
Happy Scribe: Automatic and human-corrected transcription and subtitling. Skip the sign-up: WhipScribe transcribes it in your browser. Packs: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000, $32 for 6,000; Workspace $19 a month. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Measured turnaround: about 2 minutes per audio hour. 99 languages. Checked 2 Nov 2026.
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Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. Credits never expire.
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Best for researchers, media teams, and creators who want both automatic and human-verified transcription in many languages. Pricing: $17–$89/mo plans · $0.20/min extra credits.
What it is
Happy Scribe is a Barcelona-based transcription and subtitling service that offers both automatic and human-corrected output across 120+ languages. The product is used by academic researchers, podcast producers, video creators, and media teams. The interactive editor lets users polish transcripts and export in many formats including SRT, VTT, DOCX, and PDF. Happy Scribe has been live since 2017, raised a Series A in 2022, and is one of the largest pure-play transcription brands in Europe alongside Sonix and Otter. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Pay-per-minute model can compound; not a meeting-bot for live calls.
Install / use
happyscribe.com — Auto €0.20/min, Human €1.75/min, Subscriptions from €9/mo
What people actually do with Happy Scribe-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Happy Scribe vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Happy Scribe | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $4–$32 one-time packs (credits never expire) · free preview of the opening minutes |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web | Web, API, MCP |
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Frequently asked about Happy Scribe
How much does Happy Scribe cost?
Happy Scribe is a paid product — published pricing: $17–$89/mo plans · $0.20/min extra credits. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Happy Scribe work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Happy Scribe runs in the browser, so it works on any desktop OS with a modern browser, and on phones and tablets.
How do I get started with Happy Scribe?
There is nothing to install — Happy Scribe is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Happy Scribe?
Pay-per-minute model can compound; not a meeting-bot for live calls.
Who is Happy Scribe best for?
Researchers, media teams, and creators who want both automatic and human-verified transcription in many languages.
Is Happy Scribe open source?
No. Happy Scribe is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Is there a Happy Scribe desktop app?
No — Happy Scribe is browser-only. There is nothing to install and nothing runs on your machine.
What kind of tool is Happy Scribe?
In this directory Happy Scribe is filed under meetings, transcription, multilingual as a product.
Can I automate Happy Scribe-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.0133 a minute — about $0.80 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Happy Scribe?
Happy Scribe is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Happy Scribe?
$0.0133 a minute — about $0.80 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.40, a thousand-hour archive is about $800 once. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Happy Scribe category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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