Human or AI Transcription?

Human or AI? We can help you decide.

There are times when human transcription is the best choice. There are also times when AI makes sense.

We’re human, so we may be a little biased—but we think our human transcribers are pretty great at what they do. They know how to handle accents, multiple speakers talking at once, difficult speaker identification, specialized terminology, and all the little things that can make a transcript go sideways. They’re also very conscious of confidentiality and the responsibility that comes with handling your recordings.

If it fits your budget, we’ll always recommend human transcription.

But we understand that sometimes the budget doesn’t allow for it. That’s okay. AI can be a useful option—and when you choose AI, we can proof it for you.

Our AI proofing service takes an AI-generated transcript and has a real person go through it for accuracy, terminology, speaker identification, formatting, and those wonderfully weird things AI occasionally gets wrong.

Think of it as getting the efficiency of AI with the attention of a human.

Accuracy
Human Transcription
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
AI Transcription
Depends on audio
Multiple speakers
Human Transcription
Excellent
AI Transcription
Can struggle
Accents/dialects
Human Transcription
Excellent
AI Transcription
Variable
Speaker identification
Human Transcription
Excellent
AI Transcription
Can be inconsistent
Specialized terminology
Human Transcription
Excellent
AI Transcription
May require correction
Confidentiality
Human Transcription
Human-reviewed
AI Transcription
Depends on platform
Cost
Human Transcription
Higher
AI Transcription
Lower
Best for
Human Transcription
Important/complex recordings
AI Transcription
Quick, budget-conscious projects

The middle ground: AI + human proofing

Don’t need a fully human transcript?
We can still help.

Send us your AI-generated transcript and we’ll have an experienced transcriber review it for accuracy and clean it up to professional standards.

Choose human transcription when accuracy is critical. Choose AI when budget matters most. Or let us proof your AI transcript and give it a human once-over.

Three ways to get the words right.