Sonix

Vorteile

Auch mit eher mittelmäßiger Audioqualität mit teilweise starkem Akzent des Sprechers war die Transkription besser, als bei anderen Diensten. Die 30 Freiminuten bei der Testversion sind fair.

Nachteile

Das Design der Website könnte besser sein, aber eher irrelevant.

Vorteile

Easy to use. Great support. Friendly people

Nachteile

The software performed as expected, so there are no conerns.

Vorteile

It's accuracy for transcribing conversations
How simple it is to edit and export the transcript
The embed code so I can add a transcript AND a player to my website and even pull the original MP3 from my podcast host so that those plays count towards my stats.
THE AMAZING CUSTOMER SERVICE!

Nachteile

The pricing structure is difficult to grasp at first. I would still try to simplify it because it's confusing. You get charged a membership fee which then gives you access to transcription services which are billed based on usage. I now understand that they do this so you don't have to be paying monthly for transcription which you might not need but then you're paying a membership anyway…
Also, I'd like to be able to save snippets and common words to improve the AI and make my editing process easier but that's a very minor thing.

Vorteile

I like how easy it is to upload, edit and export. I find new features to use every time I edit a transcript

Nachteile

Wish the transcription was a bit closer to the audio, however, do understand it depends on the quality of the audio.

Vorteile

It's an amazing achievement that saves hours of your time transcribing and timecoding for video. It's incredibly easy to use and set-up for the first time.

Nachteile

Loved everything about the software, didn't found any bug or error so far. Speech-to-text transcription is a very hard affair and it's very understandable that it won't be a 100% perfect outcome, but it gets around 80-90% perfect, just needs a little check on some words and that's it.

Vorteile

Sonix is very easy to use - and compared to AI software I’ve tried much more accurate with transcriptions - and the turnaround continues to become faster.

Nachteile

The only issue with the software - and I think it’s more of just the ability to read the sometimes difficult change between speakers when uploading an interview is breaking dialogue paragraphs when one speaker is done and telling the difference. This may likely change as technology grows.

Vorteile

The editing functionality is very good it does a very good job of transcription, so it really is not necessary to make many modifications to the transcribed text. The design is very clear, which facilitates its use and allows you to upload files in a fast and efficient way, the editing functionality that you have is very complete allowing the audio track and the transcribed text to be synchronized so that it is really easy to follow the audio and make online editions of the transcribed text

Vorteile

It's an really good web editor. Innovative with SEO friendly media embeds, and provides good automated service with a nice group of editing tools.

Nachteile

Prices are high prices and its performance could be iffy, unreliable if you work with complex files.

Vorteile

- amazing UI
- good quality transcription for German language even though sometimes low quality recording
- easy to refine transcription manually
- great price, great bargain + you can quit monthly

Nachteile

- to be honest I expected nothing but was amazed, so cannot really say anything although there is always room for improvement like the accuracy of transcription etc.

Vorteile

Sonix provides me with a highly reliable automatic audio/video transcription service. After uploading the file on the server, usually it takes up to 30-40 seconds to complete the transcription process for a 1 minute audio file. I use it to make an interactive listening practice tool for my students.

As it supports a powerful sharing options, I can easily share the contents even on the web itself! Also it has two kinds of offers: subscription or pay-as-go. So I can choose the one that fits my current situation.

Nachteile

I have not found anything that I dislike with this tool. Compared to its competitors, nothing had a superior quality or features than Sonix. I am quite sure that I'd love to pay for the subscription even after the free trial (30 minutes).

Vorteile

It's very easy to use, just by entering a few topics and keywords a very high-quality transcription will appear!

Nachteile

Sometimes transcriptions that appear repeatedly and do not fit the topic but only occur if the topic being discussed is indeed less focused and too general

Vorteile

This service exceeded my expectations. It was very easy to use, I love the GUI, and I found this accurate enough for my needs.

Nachteile

With openai's Whisper and the ability to do the same thing for free, it no longer made sense to continue paying for Sonix.

Vorteile

Highly ergonomic, it works even for speeches in noisy environments

Nachteile

In Romanian the recognition index is in the range of 80-85%

Vorteile

95% accurate transcription + ease of inserting/burning in captions

Nachteile

A bit pricey for what it does vs. competition.

Vorteile

The user interface works intuitively and smooth. Over the time that I used Sonix that introduced new features and everytime it was an improvement. One improvement that I loved was that the audio would stop playing when you edit the text and start playing immediately after. This really sped up the process of finalizing the transcripts. Customer service (just for questions, I never had any complaints) was super responsive and friendly. The quality of the transcriptions is really good. I cannot recommend Sonix enough.

Nachteile

In my experience, there were 2 types of situations where the quality of the transcriptions suffered. The first is when there are more than 2 speakers, especially when some interviewees were sitting around a large table and therefore sat physically too far from my recorder. In those cases, the first couple of words or a sentence from a new speaker would often not be picked up.
The second is when there was loud background music playing. In those cases the sentences in the transcripts would be cut short, meaning that after every couple of words there would be a period followed by a capitalized word.
But, I cannot stress this enough, this is to be expected from any transcription service. It is just something to keep in mind: if you do plan to transcribe your recordings just make sure that speakers are reasonably close to your recorder and that you avoid bars/restaurants. Otherwise, the transcripts were very good and the editing experience was even better. I cannot recommend Sonix enough.

Vorteile

Sonix has the best online editor of any transcription service we've tried. I love all the export format options and organizational abilities. Sonix makes the task of creating interview transcripts simple and fun.

Nachteile

I wish there was a little more control over how SRT subtitles are exported, especially the ability to automatically split subtitles at the end of sentences. Also, it would be nice if Sonix could better identify speakers automatically.

Vorteile

I needed a software product to translate a video made by compiling Zoom recordings. Not only was the quality relatively poor, but there were 15 different speakers. This software did a tremendous job! Not only was it able to capture probably 90% of the words accurately from a poor-quality audio, but it separated the content by speaker, made it super easy to note who spoke in each section, to correct the few words that were wrong (mostly the company name which is not common), and easy to export. I'm not a software expert by any stretch of the imagination. I'm a strategic communication consultant putting together a video for a client in the Real Estate industry. Being able to translate, identify the speaker and easily download the information with time stamps made it much easier and faster to get to our final edit with the video production company.

Nachteile

I had no challenges or issues with the software - it was very intuitive, helpful, and thoughtfully designed.

Vorteile

It is easy to use and we can use it to create accurate transcription in multiple languages from any audio we have but only the requirement is the audio must be noise free. I found that it is very user-friendly and we can generate transcription very quickly.

Nachteile

It helps us to improve the user experience with highly accurate subtitles for our every video.

Vorteile

I used Sonix for a year transcribing my YouTube videos and using the API to create content from it.
It's easy to use, fast and affordable

Nachteile

The text editing takes time and the timestamps made me crazy at times.
If the language switches in the video (rare case figure for most users I admit) it gets very difficult to get both transcriptions

Vorteile

It's super easy to use and picks up on different accents, which was important because my accent was different to all of my subjects.

Nachteile

THat I had to pay for it, but that's life ;-)

Vorteile

This software integrates with Zoom so seamlessly. Shortly after I finish a recording I get an email telling me that the transcription is complete. And there are time stamps with audio clips that make it so easy to repurpose for marketing.

Nachteile

The only thing I can think of is an integration I tried to do that didn't work. It's stuck and I can't figure out how to cancel it.

Vorteile

The time it took to transcribe several hours of audio was incredibly fast.

Nachteile

Sometimes it struggles with accents and it was really odd how it would handle male voices differently than female voices - for example the sentence "You might have a tendency to make it last months" spoken by a male might be transcribed as 'You might have a tendency to make it last months" but for a female it would transcribe it as 'You might have a pregnancy to make it last months' - we had a bit of a laugh about that, but it probably had more to do with the speaker's accent than their gender.

Vorteile

Sonix saved me so much time! I used to have to hire and train students to transcribe my lengthy interviews. Now I just upload to Sonix and within minutes get a full transcript. I love that it recognizes when the speakers switch and even edits a lot of the stutters of language right out.

Nachteile

It would be great if I could use my transcription pedal with this. I think there is a way but it was not easy to figure out (I spent hours and never got it working). I wish there was a better integration with nvivo.

Vorteile

Sonix is one of those rare programs that works so well that I can hardly find any faults with it. It's such a great interface because not only does it turn an MP3 into words on a page, it lets you edit in real time to fix any of the expected glitches the AI missed.

Nachteile

It doesn't render all voices perfectly, requiring some manual editing. I'd be amazed if it was able to do that, but maybe as AI improves.

Vorteile

Helped me to focus less on taking notes and more on being present with folks I interviewed. I had confidence in the transcription as a resource for me to finalize written interviews after speaking with someone.

Nachteile

I just wasn't making enough income on writing to cover subscription costs

Vorteile

Our marketing and communications team uses it for customer interviews and analyst calls. It is incredibly easy to use and just works. Love that we can edit the transcription afterwards too.

Nachteile

Our team loves it. This is more of a request but would like the ability to highlight sections of the transcript.

Vorteile

Lo que más me gustó de Sonix, fue que pude hacer una buena diferenciación de voces entre el entrevistado y el entrevistador. De igual manera, fue sumamente fácil editar los texto de las transcripciones. Aunque transcribió bastante bien; pero, había que editar el documento con las palabras que la IA de Sonix no transcribía correctamente. Reproducir y editar el texto fue bastante llevadero; porque Sonix ofrece una gran facilidad para esto. De verdad, lo volvería a utilizar, lo usé más para entrevista.
Pero Sonix ayuda mucho y facilita el proceso. Lo usé para los participantes de mi disertación y para un grupo focal del plan estratégico de mi institución. Lo he recomendado para que la institución pueda adquirir la licencia.

Nachteile

En el caso de que se use para grupo focales, en que hablen más de cuatro personas, se puede seguir mejorando en el reconocimiento de voces de los participantes y el entrevistador.

Falta mejorar reconocimiento de voces en los participantes.

Vorteile

Easy to load, and used to be helpful. Don't understand what changed

Nachteile

It used to be good until 6 months ago, now, it just sucks and has become a waste of money

Nachteile

nothing - it was perfect from the beginning to the end.

Vorteile

This is one of the few services that can handle multy-language and translations. I enjoyed the user friendly UI and the ability to export to software like Adobe and Atlas.ti. Best part is the easy way to edit transcriptions

Nachteile

The thing that I didn't love is that they have basic qualitative analysis for an extra fee. I'd love it to be included, but I understand that my license was a basic one.

Vorteile

I did like that I could easily upload my coaching calls and take notes on them based off of the transcript.

Nachteile

Where do I start...first of all, it did not transcribe all of my calls properly and would sometimes make it look like there was just one speaker speaking in paragraphs which wasn't helpful at all. Secondly, the pricing structure is unclear and WAY too expensive for what it is. And my favorite part - when I reached out to support because I panicked when I saw what was charged to my account, they were VERY rude and antagonizing rather than just explaining to me why I was charged that amount and trying to keep me as a customer. Seriously...you guys need to hire better people because that was ridiculous.

Vorteile

Out of all the AI transcription services I tried, Sonix was the best at accurately identifying who was speaking when in a group meeting, as well as discerning regional accents.

Nachteile

It sometimes split paragraphs in the middle of a sentence when the speaker paused

Vorteile

Automatically transcribe AND translate into different languages. Really great as a video editor working in multiple languages. Makes it so easy, not many platforms allow you to do that.

Nachteile

If you need to transcribe and translate a interview, for example, it costs double- first eats into your credits by transcribing in native language and then again if you choose to translate. It would be great to automatically do that function as one purchase- rather than doubling the cost.

Vorteile

I am completely impressed by Sonix. It reduces the time that usually is needed for what I wanted to achieve and it made it a pleasure to work on the project.

Nachteile

I had no problems using Sonix, once i had worked on it, I intuitively learnt how to use the product for the project I needed to complete.

Vorteile

I love this software. It's better than any other speech-recognition software I have used, and it doesn't seem to have much trouble with technical terms, either. Plus, there's a dictionary function so you can teach it unusual terms you need it to recognize.

Nachteile

I would love to be able to use it offline as a downloadable program, but I guess that's not possible. Note that if you want to not pay for the minutes of "credits music" at the end, you will need to trim the end part of the soundtrack. Lead-in music you need unless you are going to go through the .srt file and time-offset everything.

Vorteile

Logiciel de reconnaissance vocal logiciel de titrage

Nachteile

Besoin de connexion internet avant utilisation

Vorteile

Used this to do interviews for the book I'm writing. Easy to use, fast and accurate. A game-changer!

Nachteile

No cons for me, it did the job I needed it to do.

Vorteile

Totally phenomenal AI transcription. Close to 100% accurate for our 2 hour meetings.

Nachteile

The summaries on Sonix Pro were not as complete as Zoom Pros. I am sure that Sonix could make better summaries, because their AI transcription was the best by far. They should have two levels of summaries, the longer one to gather more elaborative details and really separate its level of content more distinctly from bullet points. So there would be Levels I and II in summarizations and also have bullet points available. I could be wrong as I did not have the opportunity to see if that is actually possible to modify in Sonix. Our agency's secretary needed the summary, only for meeting notes.

Vorteile

The accuracy of translation was excellent considering the quality of the interviews. Native English speakers interviews were exceptional - over 98-99% accuracy.I was impressed.Also interviews in romanian were very very good - over 95% accuracy

Nachteile

bit slow, I've loaded 14 interview and took more than 1 hour

Vorteile

fast in transcription , very fast realy I liked it

Nachteile

some mistakes bei transcription due to bilang usage

Vorteile

La précision des transcriptions et la rapidité d’exécution

Nachteile

Pas de version en WordPerfect pour les transcriptions.

Vorteile

Way better than Otter.ai and Microsoft Office, especially for accents and poor sound qual.Pricing is very reasonable and well worth all the saved hours compared to inferior free transcription services.

Nachteile

Little language support, but acceptable.It is not free, but is so cheap I do not view this as a con.

Vorteile

Makes very good and accurate transcription, very user friendly software.

Vorteile

Intuitive functionality and ease of use. Excellent accuracy overall.

Nachteile

Some audio transcription was off, though in each case Sonix could do little about it due to signal to noise issues (too much background noise or poor microphones present).

Vorteile

The transcriptions and their accuracy and easy to use.

Nachteile

Maybe the price, 10 USD per hour. Sometime the budgets for the evaluations are low, NGOs pay very little for the actual evalation work.

Vorteile

Sonix is super friendly to use. It offers you great results, in a very short time

Nachteile

It is very expensive for a Latin person.

Vorteile

It did a great job in transcribing speech from accented English, it clearly identified speakers and was amazingly accurate.

Nachteile

I didn't find anything about the experience unlikeable.

Vorteile

Sonix is easy to learn, use and deploy. We used it for focus group and interview transcripts, and the level of accuracy was high. I recommend Sonix to anyone doing not-for-profit management consulting and strategic planning with teams.

Nachteile

I didn't feel there were any downsides. Sonix did what we needed it to do.

Vorteile

The transcriptions were very accurate. Additionally the sonix.ai website has a very user friendly interface, useful functionalities, and attractive design.

Nachteile

Does not support multilingual speech recognition.

Vorteile

I am a Game Developer and film-maker, I generally upload my game videos on YouTube and it is really very much important for me to provide subtitles on my videos but it becomes way boring to write all the subtitles when the Video is really lengthy and sometimes it also becomes impossible to write everything in time, So in this case Sonix is the best software for me to use and transcribe all my Audio and video files and get them in written formats so that I could easily check them and place them on my videos, this whole process becomes so much easy and interesting. Transcribing an audio or video file doesn't actually takes more time than expected when using Sonix and this is the best second most important point that I would prefer everyone to once give it a try as Sonix provides a 30 minute free trial for newbies and after that, it will be paid but still a convenient way. Sonix doesn't always provides 100% accuracy but still we get atleast 80-90% accuracy rate or even more but to get everything working correctly, Sonix provides a feature of doing corrections manually and when doing so, when we select a mistaken word the audio or video file continues exactly from there irrespective of where it was before. Sonix has a nice and easy to understanding interface which gives it a charm look and makes the mood of doing the work.

Nachteile

Though, there's nothing bad about Sonix but there could be some instances when transcribing an audio becomes hard as it becomes laggy when using a heavy audio file. Also, they should provide a longer trial duration so that newbies can learn if they should use it or not.