Languages
Follows the switches
Stories told in two languages stay in two languages — the words are kept as they were said, not flattened into one.
Get the story down while it’s being told.
Family histories, community archives, life-story interviews — transcribed live, so you can stay in the conversation and still leave with a text tied line-by-line to the moment it was spoken.
- Speaker-labelled, as you speak
- Holds up in a loud room
- Audio is never kept after a session
The interview you postpone is the one you lose
Oral history has a deadline nobody says out loud. The recordings are irreplaceable, the voices are often older and quieter, the stories switch language mid-sentence when the memory does — and a box of untranscribed tapes helps no researcher and no grandchild.
Transcribing live means the text exists the moment the interview does, and you can ask about the name you didn’t catch while the narrator is still in the room.
What you get
Used by family historians, archives and community projects.
Provenance
Timestamps to the word
Every line ties back to its moment in the recording, which is what an archive needs: the transcript as an index into the audio, not a replacement for it.
The narrator
Just a conversation
No booth, no equipment ritual — a browser tab on the kitchen table, so the telling stays natural.
Questions
Does it handle speakers who switch languages?
Yes — mixed-language speech is transcribed in the languages it was spoken in. Expect more errors right at the switch points, and review those passages against the audio.
Is the original audio preserved?
Your recording is your own — NoiseScribe never stores audio on its servers. For oral history, keep your own recording as the primary artefact; the transcript carries timestamps that index into it.
What formats suit an archive?
Plain text and DOCX for reading copies, and JSON with word-level timings as the archival companion that maps every word to its place in the recording.
Further reading
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