Simon Says: transcription for video editors

Pay-as-you-go is $15 an hour ($0.25 a minute). Plans include monthly hours and lower overage rates: $7.50 an hour on Starter, $6.50 on Pro and $4 on Pro+. Checked on simonsaysai.com/pricing on 11 October 2026.

Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition, Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools, and Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, plus Word, text, Excel, SRT, WebVTT and CEA-608/708 captions.

Yes, it lists translation into 100 languages. WhipScribe does not translate: the transcript stays in the language that was spoken.

Yes. Both editors import SRT captions. WhipScribe produces an SRT and a VTT from any audio or video file or link; you import it as a caption track.

Simon Says is for editors: transcripts and captions that drop into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Avid. Pay-as-you-go is $15 an hour; plans start at $15 per user a month.

Simon Says runs on Web, macOS and iOS.

There is nothing to install — Simon Says is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

Pay-as-you-go web uploads are capped at 5 GB a file (higher on paid plans); hourly rates fall only on monthly plans.

Editors and post-production teams who need transcripts and captions inside Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Avid.

If what you need is an SRT or VTT to import yourself, a per-minute credit pack costs a fraction of that per hour of audio.

No. Simon Says 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.

In this directory Simon Says is filed under video editors, captions as a product.

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. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 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.

Simon Says 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. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.