Qualitative Research Transcription

Why it helps

Ethics boards ask where participant audio goes. mydubly's answer is short: audio chunks are processed on our servers, deleted after delivery (within 30 minutes at most), and never used for training. The account only keeps the file name, length and credits.

A machine transcript is a first draft. Researchers still review it against the audio, but that's far faster than typing from scratch.

Step by step

1. Rename files with participant codes (P07-session1.wav), not names — the file name is the one thing stored with your account.
2. Transcribe in text-only mode; add a target language for interviews in another language.
3. Import the timestamped transcript into your analysis tool and review it against the recording while coding.

Tips

• Mention the service in your data-management plan and consent form as an automated transcription processor.
• Focus groups with crosstalk need more correction than one-to-one interviews.

Example

Cost: 58 credits (5.8¢).

Limitations to know

• No speaker labels, which matters most for focus groups.
• Verify transcripts before quoting participants.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Audio is sent over HTTPS in small chunks and deleted with its transcripts within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a timestamped transcript, subtitles (SRT and VTT) and plain text. Every output, step and limit is explained on the audio to text page.