Everything people ask before their first upload — accuracy, formats, speed, privacy, and pricing, answered without marketing fog.
Transcription services tend to answer the easy questions and blur the important ones. This page does the opposite: the answers below cover what accuracy actually means on real-world audio, what happens to your files after processing, and what the bill looks like — the three things that should decide which service you use.
The short version of TranscribeBee: Whisper-class AI transcription with automatic speaker identification, roughly two to three minutes of processing per hour of audio, $2 per audio hour with no subscription, export to TXT, SRT, DOC, and PDF, and files deleted automatically after processing. Nearly every audio and video format works — MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV and more — because the audio track is extracted and processed regardless of container.
On accuracy, the honest framing: clear single-speaker audio transcribes at 95–98%; multi-speaker recordings with decent microphones are slightly below that; bad audio is worse, for every service, whatever their landing page says. The practical test costs $2 — upload a typical file from your real workflow and judge the output against your own bar.
$2 per audio hour, billed per file. A month with no uploads costs nothing — the pricing model most FAQ pages bury.
Uploads are processed by machine and auto-deleted. No human listens, nothing is retained for training.
Upload almost any audio or video container; download TXT for reading, SRT for captions, DOC and PDF for documents.
Typically 95%+ on clear audio, with accuracy dropping as noise, crosstalk, and accents stack up. No AI service honestly promises 100% — budget a short review pass for names and technical terms.
Processing runs about 2–3 minutes per hour of audio. A one-hour meeting is usually ready in under five minutes including upload time.
Yes — automatic speaker diarization labels each voice (Speaker A, Speaker B) throughout the transcript at no extra cost. You map labels to names afterward, which takes a minute.
It is deleted automatically after processing. The transcript remains available to you to download; the source audio is not retained.
$2 per audio hour, prorated by duration, pay-per-use. A 30-minute interview costs $1; a 2-hour lecture costs $4. No monthly fee, no minutes bucket, no tiers.
$2 per hour. No subscription. Files are auto-deleted after processing.