We believe that InqScribe is the best, most reliable, and easy-to-use transcription software on the market. Many of our customers have come to us from other transcription programs because they were tired of workarounds and buggy, unreliable solutions.
We're often asked how InqScribe compares to other transcription programs like Express Scribe. Here's a chart:
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Express Scribe | |
Free-form note-taking and transcription tool with linked time codes and video view. |
Audio-oriented dictation tool. |
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PRICING |
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Free version |
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Paid version |
$99 full |
$159 Pro |
Free trial of paid version |
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Free upgrades |
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Mac version |
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Windows version |
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FEATURES |
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Free Version Limitations |
No saving or exporting |
Audio-only |
Paid Version Limitations |
No Limitations -- Regular, Academic, and Student licenses have the same features |
Basic only supports audio not video, limited audio formats |
Clickable timecodes |
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Video support |
Video support for free and paid versions: H.263, H.264, MOV, AVI, MPEG, MP4, and more! |
Pro version only |
Audio support |
Audio support for free and paid versions: Many supported formats! |
Most formats Pro only |
Video and transcript in the same window |
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Subtitles |
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Mouse-free controls |
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Find and replace |
Depends on your word processor |
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Coding for keywords |
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Footpedal support |
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Variable speed playback |
We originally built InqScribe so that we could have a better way to work with video. Since 2005, it's been used by thousands of professional transcriptionists, academics, journalists, students, and filmmakers. Give it a try, and if you have any questions feel free to drop us a line.
InqScribe is not speech-to-text. If you need an automated way to get text from video, we recommend checking out Dragon's Naturally Speaking software. But if you want to clean up your automatic transcript (or if you don't have a perfect audio file), or you want to insert timecodes into your transcript, you can always import and edit your transcript in InqScribe.
View InqScribe's quick start guide or helpful knowledge base.
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