Trint
Trint is a London-based transcription and collaborative editing SaaS aimed at newsrooms, production companies, and enterprise media teams that need multi-user editing on top of the transcript.
Drop your audio. Transcript in seconds. First transcript free, then $2 a file or $8 = 1,000 min
Trint pairs automatic transcription in 50+ languages with a browser-based collaborative editor where multiple reporters can cut, highlight, and assemble rough cuts from the same audio or video. Around it sits an AI Assistant for summaries, quote extraction, and speaker analysis, plus integrations with newsroom systems (AP ENPS, Mimir, Octopus, Saga), MAMs, Zoom and LiveU for live capture, and Adobe Premiere for handoff. Live transcription auto-detects language; translation covers 70+ languages for captions and global publishing.
Best for newsrooms, sports and broadcast production, podcast teams, and content marketing groups that need shared workspaces, admin controls, and an audit trail across many reporters. Pricing is not published on the public site — plans gate behind app.trint.com/plans and enterprise is sales-led, with ISO 27001 / Cyber Essentials certifications, EU or US data residency, and GDPR-aligned retention controls.
What it is
Trint is the newsroom-focused competitor — good at collaborative transcript editing, story search, and managing a large archive of interviews. Priced for teams, not solo creators. Last price check: 2026-04-20.
Watch out for: Priced for organizations, not individuals; web-centric workflow.
Install / use
Go to Trint trint.comWhere Trint fits · 6 use-cases
Trint's positioning clusters around team-based newsroom and media production workflows. Each card links to the matching trint.com section.
Trint's flagship use-case. Reporters file interviews, transcripts land in a shared workspace, and editors search across the archive by speaker and phrase. Connectors push the cleaned story into AP ENPS, Octopus Newsroom, Mimir, and Saga without leaving the editor.
Connectors for AP ENPS, Octopus, Mimir, Saga
Drag-and-drop highlights from a transcript into a rough cut, then export XML to Adobe Premiere or MP4 for social. Useful for trimming long interviews and broadcast segments into shareable clips without round-tripping through a separate NLE.
XML for Premiere, MP4 export
Turns long interview or meeting transcripts into customizable summaries, surfaces key quotes, identifies speakers, and pulls out themes. Pairs with the human editor so reporters can verify the AI output before publishing.
Summary, quote extraction, speaker analysis
Live transcription detects the spoken language automatically, then post-capture translation renders the transcript into 70+ languages with a caption editor for subtitle export. Aimed at international newsrooms and brands publishing to global audiences.
Auto language ID + translation
Multiple users edit the same transcript live, with comments, highlights, and role-based access. Admin dashboard manages teams, seats, and folder-level permissions for organisations running dozens of reporters in parallel.
Live multi-user editor + admin dashboard
Sales-led enterprise tier with single sign-on, dedicated customer success, EU or US data residency on AWS, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 in transit, and contracted retention or deletion. ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials certifications. Pricing not published — requires a sales conversation.
SSO, data residency, ISO 27001, sales-led
Getting started in 3 steps
Trint is a hosted product — there is no SDK install. The flow below covers signup, your first collaborative edit, and turning the transcript into a rough cut for export.
Create an account at trint.com and upload an audio or video file from your desktop or a cloud drive (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box). Trint detects the language automatically and returns a searchable transcript with word-level timestamps.
1. Visit trint.com and click Sign up.
2. Pick a plan from app.trint.com/plans or start a trial.
3. Drag an mp3, mp4, wav, or m4a file into the dashboard.
4. Wait for the transcript to finish (a few minutes for a typical interview).
5. Open the transcript in the editor.Invite team members from the admin dashboard and assign folder-level permissions. Multiple reporters can highlight, comment, and correct the same transcript in real time, with speakers re-labelled in one place.
1. Open Team settings in the admin dashboard.
2. Invite reporters and editors by email; assign roles.
3. Move the file into a shared folder with the right access level.
4. Co-edit: highlight quotes, leave comments, correct speaker labels.
5. Use the AI Assistant to draft a summary or pull key quotes for review.Drag highlights from the transcript into a rough cut sequence, then export to Adobe Premiere via XML or render MP4 with burned-in captions. Translate the transcript into a target language before captioning for international audiences.
1. In the editor, highlight the segments you want to use.
2. Drag them into the rough cut panel and reorder.
3. (Optional) Translate the transcript into a target language.
4. Open the Caption Editor and adjust subtitle timing.
5. Export: XML for Premiere, MP4 with burned-in captions, or plain text or SRT.What people actually do with Trint-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.
Wire it into ZapierMake.comAmazon S3SlackGoogle DriveEmergent
Features
| Speaker diarization | Yes |
| Word-level timestamps | Yes |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | 30 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Links
- trint.com ↗Product homepage — newsroom-first positioning, customer logos, and the From First Word to First Draft pitch.
- app.trint.com/plans ↗Plans page — gated behind a Trint login. Public pricing is not published on the marketing site.
- How Trint works ↗Four-stage workflow overview: Capture, Collaborate and Edit, Translate and Caption, Export and Share.
- Trint technology ↗Feature breakdown — AI Assistant, content workflows, integrations, RESTful API, SSO, and security posture.
- Integrations ↗Connectors for AP ENPS, Mimir, Octopus Newsroom, Saga, Zoom, LiveU, Sony Cameras, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Zapier.
- Trint Enterprise ↗Enterprise tier overview — admin dashboard, dedicated customer success, ISO 27001, EU or US data residency, sales-led pricing.
- Trint security ↗Security and compliance page — ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2, AWS EU or US, MFA for staff, contracted retention.
- Trint blog ↗Product announcements (auto speaker recognition, AI Assistant), industry coverage (sports, newsrooms), and competitor comparisons.
Trint vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Trint | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $8–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · free instant preview |
| Speaker diarization | Not verified | Yes |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 30 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS | Web, API, MCP |
Where this category is heading
From the vendor changelogs we track weekly — what changed in August 2026, and what it means if you are choosing now.
AssemblyAI moved summarisation onto an LLM this month; every vendor is racing to return action items, quotes and topics with the text rather than as an add-on.
Whipscribe today Every Whipscribe job already returns an insights payload — summary, key quotes, topics and speakers — from the same job id, at no extra charge.
Deepgram shipped self-hosted container images in August — the market is moving toward audio that stays inside a boundary the customer controls, because teams with customer calls or unreleased material are refusing shared model endpoints.
Whipscribe today Whipscribe runs on our own GPUs in a private, secured cloud. Audio is never forwarded to OpenAI or any third-party model.
The fastest-growing way to use a transcription API is not a form — it is Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner calling it mid-task through MCP.
Whipscribe today Whipscribe ships an MCP server: transcribe, search and summarise from an assistant without wiring anything.
AssemblyAI's 1.0 SDK unified async, realtime and sync; Deepgram's CLI went to 0.3. The unit of work is becoming the folder or the bucket, not the file.
Whipscribe today Submit with an Idempotency-Key and a batch_id, poll by job, retry safely. The S3 connector runs a whole prefix in one grant.
Deepgram added Afrikaans, Georgian and Armenian and improved a dozen more this month. Coverage is widening while quality still clusters around English and the large European languages.
Whipscribe today 99+ languages auto-detected. Ask for a language explicitly when you know it — auto-detect on a short or noisy clip is the most common cause of a wrong-language transcript.
Source: Deepgram and AssemblyAI changelogs, scanned 2026-08-24.
Alternatives to Trint
Frequently asked about Trint
What is Trint?
Trint pairs automatic transcription in 50+ languages with a browser-based collaborative editor where multiple reporters can cut, highlight, and assemble rough cuts from the same audio or video. Around it sits an AI Assistant for summaries, quote extraction, and speaker analysis, plus integrations with newsroom systems (AP ENPS, Mimir, Octopus, Saga), MAMs, Zoom and LiveU for live capture, and Adobe Premiere for handoff. Live transcription auto-detects language; translation covers 70+ languages for captions and global publishing.
How much does Trint cost?
Trint is a paid product — published pricing: from $69/seat/mo (annual) · $90 monthly. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Trint work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Trint runs on Web and iOS. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Web and iOS.
How do I get started with Trint?
There is nothing to install — Trint is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Trint support?
Trint lists 30 languages.
What are the limitations of Trint?
Priced for organizations, not individuals; web-centric workflow.
Who is Trint best for?
Newsrooms, journalists, and teams that need collaborative editing on top of the transcript.
What should I know before choosing Trint?
Best for newsrooms, sports and broadcast production, podcast teams, and content marketing groups that need shared workspaces, admin controls, and an audit trail across many reporters. Pricing is not published on the public site — plans gate behind app.trint.com/plans and enterprise is sales-led, with ISO 27001 / Cyber Essentials certifications, EU or US data residency, and GDPR-aligned retention controls.
Is Trint open source?
No. Trint 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.
What kind of tool is Trint?
In this directory Trint is filed under product, enterprise as a product.
What are the alternatives to Trint?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/trint-alternatives comparing Trint with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Are there setup recipes for Trint?
Yes — this page carries 3 tested setups: 1 · Sign up and upload your first file; 2 · Edit collaboratively with your team; 3 · Build a rough cut and export.
Can I automate Trint-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. $0.008 a minute — about $0.48 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 Trint?
Trint is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. We run the models on our own GPUs in a private cloud — audio is never forwarded to OpenAI or any third-party model — and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. Your first transcript in the web app is free at any length, no card.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Trint?
$0.008 a minute — about $0.48 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $1.44, a thousand-hour archive is about $480 once. Your first transcript in the web app is free at any length, no card, so you can check accuracy on your own audio before paying anything.
Whipscribe is a managed faster-whisper + whisperX 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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