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United States
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United States
It saves me a lot of time for transcribing interviews I'm realizing over the phone
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Canada
Simple to use, very accurate - can identify between speakers and quicker than most in identifying franco arabic conversation.
Dina S.
Canada
The app has simplified my dissertation work by trascribing the interviews I am working with currently.
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Taiwan
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Caribbean Netherlands
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Austria
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Ian A.
Australia
I have tested several transcription services. This is by far the most accurate, especially taking the speed and price into consideration
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South Africa
Cockatoo separated speakers and sentences, with timestamps, making it way easier to read.
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Canada
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United States
Absolutely the best transcription app. Insanely good transcriptions, and supports my native language which is amazing.
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Poland
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Mick S.
Australia
I use it all the time to get my recordings scripted and then turned into minutes. Love it!
Josh D.
Saint Lucia
I did both English and Italian, and it was very good.
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United States
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Everything you need to know before your first upload.
Cockatoo V4-Pro achieved the lowest error rate among the services tested in 25 of 36 languages on FLEURS, including ties. It also led or tied in 25 of 36 languages on our internal real-world benchmark. Accuracy varies by language and recording quality. Explore the benchmark results and methodology.
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Upload audio files including MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, Opus, AIFF, and WMA, or video files including MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, M4V, MPEG, MPG, WMV, FLV, and 3GP. Paid plans have no fixed file-length limit. Upload size is subject to your upload flow and available account storage. See the full list of supported file formats.
Cockatoo V4-Pro supports Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Cockatoo is designed to handle varied accents, background noise, and natural conversation. See benchmark results for language-specific performance.
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Export transcripts as Word documents (DOCX), PDF, plain text (TXT), subtitles (SRT or VTT), or spreadsheets (CSV). V4 transcripts also support Adobe Premiere marker exports (TXT). You can customize timestamps and speaker labels where supported, and download your recording as MP3 audio or in its original uploaded format.
Yes. Cockatoo can translate your transcripts, turn them into summaries and key takeaways with Canvas, and export timed captions as SRT or VTT files for your videos. You can review and edit your transcript before exporting.
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