How well does it handle English?
This is one of the engine’s strongest languages — expect clean, publishable text from clear audio.
American, British, Indian, Australian, Irish, Scottish, Nigerian and Singaporean English are transcribed by the same model — there is no accent setting to pick, and no need to tell it which one you have.
Numbers, dates and currency are written as digits rather than spelled out, and filler words are kept rather than tidied away, so the transcript matches what was actually said. Heavy crosstalk is the usual limit: two people talking over each other is the one case worth reviewing.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in English the same as in English, because speaker labels follow voices, not words.
Word-level timestamps
Each word is timed to the audio, which is what makes accurate English SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in English — jump to the exact second something was said and copy it with its timestamp.
Every export
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON on every pack — no format paywall.
Who transcribes English audio here
Meetings, lectures, interviews, podcasts and recorded calls — the widest mix of any language here. In the last 30 days people transcribed 740 English recordings here.
Transcribe English by recording type
English audio to text · English interview · English lecture · English podcast · English meeting
Questions people ask
Do I need to pick an accent?
No. American, British, Indian, Australian, Irish, Scottish, Nigerian and Singaporean English all go through the same model, and there is no accent setting to choose. The language is detected from the first seconds of audio, so you do not have to tell it the recording is English either.
What if the recording switches between English and another language?
Each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken, so a call that moves between English and Hindi comes back with both, in the order they were said. You do not need to split the file.
Can I get the transcript in a different language?
No. The transcript comes back in the language that was spoken, so English audio produces English text. Captions and every export stay in the source language; translation is not something Whipscribe does.
Does it work on English video, not just audio?
Yes — upload MP4/MOV/WebM or paste a link; the audio track is extracted automatically and transcribed the same way.
How much does it cost?
Your first transcript is free at any length and your second is $0.99. Preview any transcript instantly with no signup. After that, one-time credit packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes or $24 for 5,000 minutes, and credits never expire.
Is this live captioning?
No — Whipscribe transcribes recordings, not live speech. Upload a file that already exists and the English transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
Related: Audio to text · Subtitle generator · Interview transcription · Bulk transcription