Turn Interview Recordings Into Accurate, Quotable Transcripts
Record the interview straight from your browser, or upload a file afterward. Either way you get a transcript with interviewer and participant separated, a timestamp on every line, and exact quotes you can copy straight into an article, report or hiring note.
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Whether you're a journalist on deadline, a UX researcher running back-to-back sessions, an HR interviewer filling out a scorecard, or a podcaster recording a one-on-one, the interview itself is only half the work — the other half is finding what was actually said. Transkio covers both paths into a transcript: hit record before the call starts, right in your browser, or upload a recording you already have.
Either way, the output is the same: a transcript labeled by speaker, timestamped to the second, and editable right in the browser. Free accounts can record or upload without a card and export as TXT, SRT, VTT; paid plans add DOCX and JSON with timestamps and speaker labels for anyone pulling quotes into a document, a research report, or an applicant tracking system.
Good quotes get lost in the recording
An interview is only useful after someone goes back through it, and that's the part that eats the afternoon. Scrubbing a 45-minute recording to find the one line worth quoting, replaying the same ten seconds to catch a name correctly, trying to remember whether it was the interviewer or the participant who actually said the key sentence — none of that is the interesting part of the job, but it takes as long as the interview itself.
It gets worse with a stack of interviews. A researcher running ten user sessions, or a reporter working three sources for one story, ends up with hours of audio and no way to search across it, compare answers side by side, or hand a colleague the exact wording instead of a paraphrase.
Record or upload, then work from the text
Click record in Transkio before the interview starts, or upload a file once it's done — both paths lead to the same editable transcript, timestamped to the second and split by speaker on Elite and up, so "interviewer" and "participant" stay separate instead of running together.
From there it's text: searchable, copyable, and correctable. Fix a misheard name or a piece of jargon inline, click any line to jump the recording to that exact moment to double-check a quote, and export the finished transcript in the format your workflow needs.
How It Works, Step by Step
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Record or upload
Start the in-browser recorder before the interview — up to 30 minutes free — or upload a recording you made elsewhere.
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Transcribe
Punctuation, timestamps and speaker turns are added automatically, with interviewer and participant separated on Elite and up.
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Edit and label
Fix a misheard name or technical term, and rename speakers to real names in the editor.
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Quote or export
Copy exact wording straight into your draft, or export the full transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX or JSON.
What You Get
See it work
See the Difference
A real example of how the same recording reads before and after Transkio.
A moment from a hiring interview
so uh tell me about a time when you had to fix something in production under pressure yeah so um we had our checkout service go down during a flash sale and I was the one who rolled back the deploy and got it back up in about twenty minutes
Interviewer: So, tell me about a time you had to fix something in production under pressure. Candidate: We had our checkout service go down during a flash sale. I rolled back the deploy and had it back up in about twenty minutes.
Frequently asked questions
Does it tell the interviewer and participant apart automatically?
Yes, on Elite and up — each turn is labeled Speaker 1, Speaker 2, and so on, and you can rename them to real names or roles like "Interviewer" and "Candidate" in the editor.
Can I record the interview directly in Transkio, or do I need to upload a file?
Both work. Use the in-browser recorder for up to 30 minutes on the free plan, or upload a recording you already made — audio in MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS or FLAC, or video in MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV or MPEG.
Can I pull exact quotes for an article, report or hiring note?
Yes — the transcript is searchable, editable text, so you can copy the interviewee's exact wording instead of paraphrasing from memory or re-listening to find a line.
Can I transcribe an interview conducted in another language?
Transkio recognizes speech in 50+ languages, and translation to an English text transcript is available on Pro and up. One limitation to know: translation currently produces a translated text transcript only — there's no translated subtitle (SRT/VTT) export yet, so caption files stay in the original spoken language.
What if I misheard a name or a technical term?
The transcript is editable right in the browser — correct a name, a piece of jargon, or any line of text directly, and the fix is saved with the rest of the transcript.
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