Sonix reviews

Great Transcription Software - High Quality, Well Priced, and Easy to Use

Opmerkingen: Nothing but good things to say. Highly recommend.

Pluspunten:

The initial trial (which was free and did NOT require any payment information from me in order to try it out), provided more than enough insight into the software's functionality & quality. From the first upload, Sonix provided me with the most quality transcription I'd ever seen. I've tried multiple transcription services in the past; Sonix provided quality results, has an easy to navigate platform, and seamlessly connected with Zoom (my primary method for recording conversations) - an added bonus.

Minpunten:

One *very* minor complaint is the speed by which recording is transcribed, but for the quality it’s worth the wait. Other than that small thing, there’s really nothing I dislike about the software, but there are a couple of improvements and/or additions I’d like to see. First, a direct recording & transcription function built into the Sonix.ai platform (something like a speech to text function). This would be tremendously useful for me – especially if it extended to a mobile app and/or mobile site (to help capture those “organic” / “on the fly” conversations that happen so often throughout the day). Second (and I’m not sure this is even possible but raising it nonetheless), would be the ability to upload zoom meeting links (to have them transcribed) that I don’t own, but that I have access to.

Great Product

Pluspunten:

Automatically transcribe AND translate into different languages. Really great as a video editor working in multiple languages. Makes it so easy, not many platforms allow you to do that.

Minpunten:

If you need to transcribe and translate a interview, for example, it costs double- first eats into your credits by transcribing in native language and then again if you choose to translate. It would be great to automatically do that function as one purchase- rather than doubling the cost.

Great multi-language transcription service.

Opmerkingen: My overall experience is excellent, they are quite transparent when you're making purchases and the easy of use is paramount

Pluspunten:

This is one of the few services that can handle multy-language and translations. I enjoyed the user friendly UI and the ability to export to software like Adobe and Atlas.ti. Best part is the easy way to edit transcriptions

Minpunten:

The thing that I didn't love is that they have basic qualitative analysis for an extra fee. I'd love it to be included, but I understand that my license was a basic one.

Used to be good, looking for another tool

Opmerkingen: Now it is bad. A waste of money. I am looking for another product

Pluspunten:

Easy to load, and used to be helpful. Don't understand what changed

Minpunten:

It used to be good until 6 months ago, now, it just sucks and has become a waste of money

Love Sonix

Pluspunten:

Used this to do interviews for the book I'm writing. Easy to use, fast and accurate. A game-changer!

Minpunten:

No cons for me, it did the job I needed it to do.

Awesome value for money! $10 per transcription hour is perfect for our small usage.

Opmerkingen: They were perfectly nice to us as very small users, although it's clear that they are set up to handle much higher-capacity projects than ours! The hourly pricing made it possible to use their service at our modest level, and of course I am sharing the information with other people in my field who also need to create .srt files for their videos, so eventually we will be bringing them more business.

Pluspunten:

I love this software. It's better than any other speech-recognition software I have used, and it doesn't seem to have much trouble with technical terms, either. Plus, there's a dictionary function so you can teach it unusual terms you need it to recognize.

Minpunten:

I would love to be able to use it offline as a downloadable program, but I guess that's not possible. Note that if you want to not pay for the minutes of "credits music" at the end, you will need to trim the end part of the soundtrack. Lead-in music you need unless you are going to go through the .srt file and time-offset everything.

Best I've tried

Opmerkingen: I used Sonix to transcribe roughly 24 hours of video, each with 2-6 speakers, with accents from Texas and New York, among others.

Pluspunten:

Out of all the AI transcription services I tried, Sonix was the best at accurately identifying who was speaking when in a group meeting, as well as discerning regional accents.

Minpunten:

It sometimes split paragraphs in the middle of a sentence when the speaker paused

Do NOT use this app/website!

Pluspunten:

I did like that I could easily upload my coaching calls and take notes on them based off of the transcript.

Minpunten:

Where do I start...first of all, it did not transcribe all of my calls properly and would sometimes make it look like there was just one speaker speaking in paragraphs which wasn't helpful at all. Secondly, the pricing structure is unclear and WAY too expensive for what it is. And my favorite part - when I reached out to support because I panicked when I saw what was charged to my account, they were VERY rude and antagonizing rather than just explaining to me why I was charged that amount and trying to keep me as a customer. Seriously...you guys need to hire better people because that was ridiculous.

Excellent and intuitive

Opmerkingen: I am a member of an arts collective and we have used it for the first time to subtitle documentation from German to English. The translation is as accurate as is possible currently and then converting to subtitles is very easy. There is still editing and adjusting work to be done but the job has been vastly reduced from previous work

Pluspunten:

I am completely impressed by Sonix. It reduces the time that usually is needed for what I wanted to achieve and it made it a pleasure to work on the project.

Minpunten:

I had no problems using Sonix, once i had worked on it, I intuitively learnt how to use the product for the project I needed to complete.

Phenomenally accurate AI transcription

Opmerkingen: Great. I will use it again, for webinar translations. I am sure

Pluspunten:

Totally phenomenal AI transcription. Close to 100% accurate for our 2 hour meetings.

Minpunten:

The summaries on Sonix Pro were not as complete as Zoom Pros. I am sure that Sonix could make better summaries, because their AI transcription was the best by far. They should have two levels of summaries, the longer one to gather more elaborative details and really separate its level of content more distinctly from bullet points. So there would be Levels I and II in summarizations and also have bullet points available. I could be wrong as I did not have the opportunity to see if that is actually possible to modify in Sonix. Our agency's secretary needed the summary, only for meeting notes.

Best software for Transcription

Pluspunten:

Makes very good and accurate transcription, very user friendly software.

Transcruiptions made my work more effective and accurate

Opmerkingen: Great !

Pluspunten:

The transcriptions and their accuracy and easy to use.

Minpunten:

Maybe the price, 10 USD per hour. Sometime the budgets for the evaluations are low, NGOs pay very little for the actual evalation work.

Everything was fine ;)

Pluspunten:

The transcriptions were very accurate. Additionally the sonix.ai website has a very user friendly interface, useful functionalities, and attractive design.

Minpunten:

Does not support multilingual speech recognition.

My number one option for audio to text

Opmerkingen: A+++++ perfect

Pluspunten:

What's not to like? Pricing is good, output is fantastic (given my awful input files), the speed of transcription is fantastic. Being able to change input timecode saved my day. Output to PDF. Perfect.

Minpunten:

A hundred years from now, language recognition will probably have improved a bit, but technology isn't there yet so I can't expect Sonix to be way ahead in the game compared to others. That said, I tried a few services and Sonix stood out as the best.

The best transcription software I've used to date

Opmerkingen: Excellent!

Pluspunten:

All the languages that it can recognise and the speed and accuracy of the speech recognition and time stamps

Minpunten:

I've only used the automatic translation once and, besides I was told that the translation is robotic and required a little bit of editing) the timing of the subtitles was affected to the point they were appearing at the wrong times

Super fast transcriptions with easy editing and a great embedded player

Opmerkingen: Overall, Sonix is the best way I know of to get my podcast out there for a wider audience. For the latest episode twice as many people read/listened to the episode using the Sonix player as downloaded and listened in a podcast app like Apple Podcasts. So we tripled our listeners to that episode thanks to Sonix.

Pluspunten:

I love the embedded transcript / audio player. I use Sonix to transcribe podcast episodes and embed the transcript on my website. It's way better than a traditional transcription service because visitors to my site can click anywhere in the transcript to hear the audio at exactly that moment. I also get the benefit of the transcript being indexed by Google.

Minpunten:

Currently they don't have an integrated human review/editing process. I use a contractor to clean up the transcripts because the AI isn't 100% perfect yet — no AI is at this point that I know of. So it takes a little more effort than a service such as Rev to get the transcript perfect. But the price ends up being the same or less, and the interactive transcript is something you just don't get with other services and makes it worth it.

Easy to use for quick transcripts

Opmerkingen: Very positive! I'm certainly keeping my account and will probably resubscribe to a monthly service if another project presents itself to need a lot of audio transcription in a short period of time.

Pluspunten:

Quick upload, transcription, and access for fast turnaround and ability to share with other users. Having both a subscription and per/hour pricing model fits my needs. When a project requires a lot of transcription in a short period of time, I switch to the subscription model, and then just use per/hour model for other odds and ends.

Minpunten:

Accuracy wasn't great and it took a while to understand the editing features. Overall, though, it met my needs to find and locate specific aspects of the transcription and just focus on those elements. For a full, accurate transcription, another service might be more accurate (but also more expensive)

Best for translation, transcription and subtitles generation.

Opmerkingen: While making video content, it is better to make it with live subtitles. For subtitles, we need to transcribe each minute by rewinding and listening, which is time-consuming and the solution is Sonix.ai. It solves all my issues and forgets about creating manual subtitles after using it.

Pluspunten:

It is a highly accurate and automated process that increases our work efficiency by 2x to 5x.

Minpunten:

Sonix cannot support live speech-to-text conversion which is the only dislike that I found about it.

Powerful AI-based transcription platform with a high level of accuracy.

Opmerkingen: It is easy to use and supports multiple languages. We can export it into different formats like .txt, pdf, and more according to our choice and convenience.

Pluspunten:

Sonix is cloud-based transcription software that is used by millions of people all over the world. It is a revolutionary software that can save the time and money that would have been spent on transcriptionists.

Minpunten:

Best transcription tool for my video and it works better than youtube auto transcription.

Amazing Transcription Service-Tool

Opmerkingen: As a student, I often do research on several topics, and I use the services provided by Sonix to get all the transcriptions for my research analysis material.

Pluspunten:

It's very easy to use, just by entering a few topics and keywords a very high-quality transcription will appear!

Minpunten:

Sometimes transcriptions that appear repeatedly and do not fit the topic but only occur if the topic being discussed is indeed less focused and too general

Smart, Practical, Efficient!

Pluspunten:

Wow. I'm so impressed with this product! Since using Sonix.ai I've been able to edit audio transcriptions (for user research interviews) at lightning speed compared to traditional software. I especially love how intuitive the controls are to pick up - there was literally 0 time spent to learn it! I also really enjoy the ability to dive into the anatomy of the transcript - being able to visualize and break down the files...like automatically detect the software's confidence levels in picking up a word. Makes this an even more powerful tool. Highly recommended - this is one of my favorite arsenal of tools online!

A godsend service boosting my productivity and alleviating a major source of stress in my life.

Opmerkingen: A transcription that normally takes me a whole day or sometimes two in my first language is over in 1 or 2 hours (depending on the length of the clip). I have used audio clips and video clips and have yet to see any major issues there. Granted most of the sound in these clips is taken with directional microphones, I am still impressed at how much it is able to pick up.

Pluspunten:

I am very impressed at the quality of the transcriptions. I have so far used it in three languages (English, Japanese and French) and they have been the most accurate I have seen around. As a freelancer here in Tokyo I also like the option of buying time by the hour as I don’t always need to transcribe on a regular basis. Also love the time code option

Minpunten:

There were a few weird linguistic glitches which needed to be cleaned up later (such as foreign loan words in Japanese - such as diversity and inclusion which came out as totally different words) but that is sort of to expected for automatic transcriptions. (I presume this will improve over time?).

Great Product

Pluspunten:

Easy to learn, easy to use, very useful in case of short time to elaborate documents

Minpunten:

Italian language is OK, but could be better :-)

Worth it!

Opmerkingen: Love it, will continue to use and refer

Pluspunten:

I love how easy it is to navigate, keep organized and upload what I need. The accuracy is satisfactory and it's one of the most reasonably priced platforms- since research is a service I provide for my clients, I'm confident in knowing that this is simply THE best

Minpunten:

Not a thing- infact more pros- I LOVE that they added the beta testing to transcribe straight from youtube. Makes it SO much easier when I'm transcribing for my clients- less hand-offs, less downloads on my computer. Please keep this feature.

Excellent service

Opmerkingen: It was great. I realized I could have a rough (to 90% of accuracy) transcript ready in a matter of hours. This was true for Spanish and for some local colloquialisms.

Pluspunten:

I loved that I could break down the transcript every 30 seconds and include timestamps. I also loved that I could listen to the audio as I followed on the transcript to catch any minor typos or mistakes and that I could pick and name the number of voices in my recordings. Also that I could highlight the parts I'd later cut for my podcast.

Minpunten:

I don't have any cons for the time being.