Audio is one of the easiest ways to capture information. But when it comes time to find a specific quote, review an interview, organize meeting notes, or reuse something that was said, working directly with a recording can be inconvenient.
That's where Transcription comes in.
Instead of repeatedly playing, pausing, rewinding, and typing out a recording yourself, you can let AI handle the initial transcription and focus on reviewing and using the result.
What Is Audio Transcription?
Audio transcription is the process of converting spoken content into written text.
Traditionally, transcribing a recording meant listening to it manually and typing everything that was said. A relatively short recording could take much longer than its actual duration to transcribe, especially when you need to pause or replay sections.
AI transcription makes the process much faster.
Provide a recording, let the AI process the speech, and you'll get a written transcript that you can review and edit.
The result is much easier to work with than audio alone: you can read it, search through it, make corrections, copy specific passages, and reuse the content elsewhere.
What Can You Transcribe?
Transcription can be useful whenever important information is stored in spoken form.
For example, you can use it for:
- Interviews — turn recorded conversations into text that's easier to review and quote.
- Meetings — create a written record that you can revisit later.
- Podcasts — produce text from spoken episodes for reference or content repurposing.
- Lectures — convert recorded lessons into notes that are easier to study.
- Presentations — create a text version of spoken presentations.
- Voice recordings — turn recorded thoughts and ideas into editable text.
- Research material — make recorded conversations and spoken sources easier to analyze.
Instead of searching through a recording by repeatedly moving backward and forward, you can work directly with the transcript.
How to Transcribe Audio With Lexibird
Turning a recording into text only takes a few steps.
1. Open Transcription
Open Lexibird and go to Transcription.
This is where you can turn speech and audio recordings into written text.
2. Add Your Recording
Add the audio recording you want to transcribe.
It could be an interview, meeting, podcast, lecture, presentation, or any other recording containing spoken content.
Starting with good-quality audio can help produce a better transcript. Recordings with clear speech and minimal background noise are generally easier for AI to process accurately.
3. Start Transcribing
Once you've added your recording, start the transcription.
Lexibird processes the audio and converts the spoken content into text automatically.
Instead of manually listening to every sentence and typing it yourself, you can let AI create the initial transcript for you.
4. Review the Result
Once the transcription is complete, read through the generated text.
AI transcription can save a significant amount of manual work, but it's still worth reviewing important content.
Pay particular attention to things such as:
- Names and places
- Numbers and dates
- Technical terminology
- Brand or product names
- Sections with background noise
- Parts where multiple speakers talk at the same time
A quick review can help ensure that the final transcript accurately reflects the original recording.
5. Edit Your Transcript
Your transcript isn't locked into its initial form.
Because the output is editable text, you can correct mistakes, clean up sentences, remove unnecessary sections, or reorganize the content to suit your needs.
This is one of the biggest advantages of turning audio into text: spoken information becomes content that you can actively work with.
Why Turn Audio Into Text?
A recording is useful when you want to preserve exactly what happened, but it isn't always the most practical format when you need to work with the information later.
Imagine you have a 45-minute interview and remember that the interviewee made an interesting comment somewhere in the middle.
With audio alone, you may need to skip through the recording until you find it.
With a transcript, you can simply scan or search the text.
The same applies to meetings, lectures, podcasts, and other recordings. Once the spoken content is available as text, it becomes much easier to navigate.
From Recording to Text in a Few Steps
Recordings are great for capturing conversations and ideas, but they're not always convenient when you need to work with that information afterward.
Transcription solves that problem by turning spoken content into something much more flexible: editable text.
Instead of spending your time repeatedly pausing, rewinding, and typing, Lexibird Transcription can create the initial transcript for you. You can then review it, make any necessary corrections, search for the information you need, and reuse the text however you like.
If you have an interview, meeting, podcast, lecture, or other recording sitting on your device, Lexibird Transcription gives you a straightforward way to turn it into text.
Try Transcription for Free
Have an audio recording you'd like to turn into text?
Try Lexibird Transcription for free and convert your speech or audio recordings into clear, editable text in just a few steps. The Basic plan is free to get started and doesn't require a credit card.