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How to Transcribe an Interview

To transcribe an interview, upload the audio or video file or record it live with the desktop or web app. LiteScribe separates interviewer and interviewee with speaker diarization, adds timestamps and an AI summary, and lets you ask AI questions across the conversation, in 100+ languages.

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How it works

  1. 1

    Record or upload

    Record the interview live in the web or desktop app, or upload an existing audio or video file in any common format.

  2. 2

    Separate the speakers

    Speaker diarization automatically distinguishes interviewer from interviewee, so the back-and-forth is clear and easy to follow.

  3. 3

    Analyze with AI

    Get an AI summary, action items, and topic tags, then ask AI questions like what did the candidate say about pricing across the full transcript.

  4. 4

    Export for your records

    Export to DOCX, PDF, TXT, or SRT with speaker names and timestamps included, ready for research notes or hiring files.

When the recording should stay on your machine

Some recordings are not worth uploading anywhere, whatever the tool promises. For a saved file, the LiteScribe desktop app offers meeting notes with no extra participant in the room, running the speech model and the AI summary locally so the recording never leaves your computer. The web and mobile apps transcribe in the cloud, so this is a desktop-only path. See what Local Mode runs on your machine for what runs where.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Upload the recording or record live, and speaker diarization automatically labels the interviewer and interviewee separately. On Pro and Business plans you can rename each speaker for a cleaner, more readable transcript.

Yes. Every interview transcript is fully searchable with timestamps on each utterance, so you can find and quote exact moments quickly and accurately.

Yes. You can ask AI questions across one or many interview transcripts, compare what different participants said, and extract themes, which is ideal for user research and qualitative studies.

On the desktop app, Local Mode transcribes everything on-device with an on-device AI engine, so sensitive interview audio never leaves your machine and is never sent to a third-party AI service.

LiteScribe transcribes interviews in 100+ languages with automatic detection, and can translate transcripts to other languages on Pro and Business plans.

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