Last update: 30th April, 2025

Annotape, Mepa, Parlatype, Transcribe  are either no longer available or there is no development within the last 10 years. Therefore these programs were deleted from this list.

This list will be extended, also with information of apps running on smartphones or tablets (Android or IOS operating systems).

program: EasyTranscript Version 3.3.1
author: Elias John, Rainer Huß, Jonas John
distributor: Easy Transcript
documentation: none
download: free download for all operating systems
operating system: based on Java, runs on MS-Windows, Mac OS-X, Linux in English and German
description: requires Java Runtime 7 and VLC mediaplayer

program: EXMARaLDA, available in English, French, and German
author: Thomas Schmidt
distributor: Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora (German only)
documentation: manual
download: free download for all operating systems
operating system: based on Java, runs on MS-Windows, Mac OS-X, Linux - in English and German
description: description of features

program: Express Scribe
author: unknown
distributor: NCH Software
documentation: the manual is included in the download file, and there is also a support including video tutorials
download: free version
operating system: MS-Windows, Mac OS-X
description: Express Scribe is professional audio player software designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings. It is installed on the typist's computer and controlled using the keyboard (with 'hot' keys) and / or can be used with a transcription pedal. This computer transcriber application features variable speed wave playback, foot pedal operation, file management and more.

program: F4 (MS-Windows) and F5 (Mac OS-X) version 2025.1.0
author: unknown
distributor: dr. dresing & pehl GbR
documentation: manual
download: free version
operating system: MS-Windows, Mac OS-X
description: F4 is a offered as a free version (first 10 minutes of a file), limited 6-month, and a full version. Working with slower speed and the use of a foot pedal is possible.

program: Feldpartitur, currently under construction
author: Christine Moritz
distributor: currently none
documentation: currently none
download: currently none
operating system: no information, seems to be browser based
description: developer plans a restart

program: HyperTranscribe 4.5.7
author: unknown
distributor: ResearchWare
documentation: User Guide and tutorials
download: demo edition for Mac OS-X or demo edition for MS-Windows
operating system: MS-Windows 2000 or newer, Mac OS-X 10.4.11 or newer
description: HyperTRANSCRIBE lets you open and play most popular audio and video formats, and provides both graphical and keyboard control to play, pause, and loop playback so your hands never have to leave the keyboard. Using Apple Computer's QuickTime technology, HyperTRANSCRIBE can play MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, and many other media file types. Sample files are available.

program: TAMS analyzer 4.56b6
author: Matthew Weinstein
distributor: Matthew Weinstein
documentation: tutorials and manuals
download: program, dpcumentation, and source code
operating system(s): Mac OS-X 10.6 or newer
description: TAMS stands for Text Analysis Markup System. It is a convention for identifying themes in texts (web pages, interviews, field notes). It was designed for use in ethnographic and discourse research.
TAMS Analyzer is a program that works with TAMS to let you assign ethnographic codes to passages of a text just by selecting the relevant text and double clicking the name of the code on a list. It then allows you to extract, analyze, and save coded information. TAMS Analyzer is open source; it is released under GPL v2. The Macintosh version of the program also includes full support for transcription (back space, insert time code, jump to time code, etc.) when working with data on sound files.

program: Transcriber 2.0.0
author: Karim Boudahmane, Mathieu Manta, Fabien Antoine, Sylvain Galliano, Claude Barras
distributor: DGA
documentation: overview on documentation
download: free download for all operating systems
operating system: MS-Windows, Mac OS-X, Linux
description: TranscriberAG (old name Transcriber) is a tool for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, and labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions. It is more specifically designed for the annotation of broadcast news recordings, for creating corpora used in the development of automatic broadcast news transcription systems, but its features might be found useful in other areas of speech research.

program: Transcriva 2.016
author: Joshua Nozzi
distributor: Bartas Technologies, New Market, MD, USA
documentation: not available
download: test version
operating system: Mac OS-X 10.5 or newer
description: Transcriva is transcription software for the Mac. Whether it's your meeting minutes, interviews, lectures, home movies, dictation, speeches, or your favorite TV show, Transcriva can help you transcribe them all. It uses Quicktime format, other file formats require an appropriate plug-in.