Transcriptions for Windows Pc & Mac: Free Download (2023)

Transcriptions Overview

What is Transcriptions? Transcriptions is a free and open-source RTF-text editor designed for fast manual transcription of audio or video material on Mac. It supports media with tape behavior, customizable media-control shortcuts, timestamps, text substitution, subtitle file import and export, and footpedal support. The app is widely used in research, education, and journalism since 2008 and was featured as MacBreak Weekly pick of the week on March 30, 2010. It supports various media file formats based on AVFoundation and allows users to insert timestamps into the text to jump to a particular position in the loaded media file. The source code of Transcriptions is available on GitHub, and users are encouraged to file bug reports and feature requests on the project homepage.

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Transcriptions Features and Description

1. Please support further development of Transcriptions by filing bug reports and feature requests on the GitHub project homepage - or write an email.

2. Load media in the player, use the controls to adjust speed and volume, set keyboard shortcuts for media control in the preferences pane and type away.

3. Insert timestamps into the text to jump to a particular position in the loaded media file.

4. Before posting an app store review, please consider contributing to this open source project.

5. A rtf-text editor optimized for fast manual transcription of audio- or video material on the Windows.

6. The source code of Transcriptions can be checked out at GitHub.

7. Transcriptions also supports text-substitutions by inserting "@" followed by a text-token.

8. MacBreak Weekly pick of the week on March 30, 2010.

9. Used around the world in research, education and journalism since 2008.

10. Now with subtitle editing support.

Pros:

- Actively developed
- Reasonable price
- Essential
- Time stamps are helpful

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Installation Requirements

PC Compactibility/Requirements for Installation

Compactible OS list:

Windows 11
Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 7
Windows Vista

Requirements for MacOS Installation

Intel, 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later.

Compactible OS list:

macOS Ventura: 13.3
macOS Monterey: 12.6.4
macOS Big Sur: 11.7.5
macOS Catalina: 10.15
macOS Mojave: 10.14
macOS High Sierra: 10.13

FAQs

Transcriptions - Is it safe to download?

Yes. The app is 100 percent (100%) safe to download and Install. Our download links are from safe sources and are frequently virus scanned to protect you

Software Reviews and Criticism

By rebeccamcbane

Very helpful, 2 suggestions/requests

This app works as advertised. The time stamps are very helpful. I would only have two suggestions. The first would be an easy way to remove or hide all of the timestamps at once - particularly when exporting. Also, I wish there were more options for exporting such as to a doc or pdf. (If there is already a way to do either of these things and I am just not seeing it, please let me know and I will amend my review.) Other than that, having the media file right next to the text screen does make the tedious task of transcription easier.
By col. duck

transcribing oral history

I’m using the program ( 2 hours now) to transcribe a a family history for a neighbor. There was help to get me started, not a lot, but enough to get the keystrokes down. Maybe they should let us ludites know you have to combine control, option,command or shift with a letter or symbol. It’s great. The money i’m going to save in felt tips, legal pads yadda yada. instead of a ton of notes on different pages i’ve got an organized file on my desktop four stars only because i’m new to the review thing
By Dnoelle

So far so good...

I was looking for some software I could use for transcriptions on a Windows. Most software was $40+ and I wasn’t willing to spend that to try it out. This was inexpensive, so I hoped it would fit the bill. So far, so good. The hotkeys work for play/pause and replay the audio. I wish it would work while I was typing in a word processor rather than on it’s screen, but I can copy and paste out of the file so it will work. The substitutions for labels like s1 turning into Speaker 1: is a bit more complicated. You need to have your replacements in the Text section of the System Preferences. The, once you finish typing, you choose Edit, Substitutions, Show Substitutions. That brings up another dialogue box where you can “Replace All”. Wish it would do it as I type, but again, it works and will save me time. For the price, it works for what I need.
By dlspace

Very helpful so far.....

Just started using this and it is so much help becasue it will backspace on resuming the audio so there are no missed words. I had already started a document in Pages so I'm not sure how it would work to export if typing the document in this App but will try that too. Really does help move the transcribing along and nice to be able to select my own control keys though it would be nice to have single key controls as mentioned in another comment.

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