AI Transcription: Get the Words, Then See Who Spoke
AI transcription starts with the words from a meeting or a voice note, then asks who spoke. Speechyou takes the notes. VideoTranscript separates speakers on a recording you already have.
AI transcription is the recording turned into words you can search. The first moment is the meeting or the voice note: you want the text, a summary, and the action items. The next moment is the recording you already have, when several people spoke and you need to see who said what. Speechyou is built for the first. VideoTranscript is built for the next.
Quick answer
| Speechyou | VideoTranscript | |
|---|---|---|
| The moment | The meeting is happening, or you just made a voice note | The recording already exists: a YouTube video, a playlist, or a file |
| What you leave with | Timed text, a summary, and action items. You can ask the transcript questions | Timed text you can search, then chapters, notes, a translation, or study materials |
| Who spoke | The homepage sample labels two people as Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. The Solo plan list does not name speaker separation | Separate Speaker is a switch on the form. The FAQ says it helps interviews, panels, sales calls, user research, and group discussions |
| What you start with | A browser recording, or an upload. Meeting mode takes the microphone and the system audio for Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet | A YouTube link, a YouTube playlist, or a local video or audio file |
| What you pay to start | Every Solo feature is free for 3 days, then US$15 a month or US$67 a year | The homepage says Start for free. It does not print a quota, and it does not print what Premium costs |
Speechyou: the notes from the meeting
Speechyou turns a voice note or a meeting into text. You record in the browser, or you upload an audio or video file. Meeting mode captures the microphone and the system audio, so a Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet call can be documented from the same session. The homepage says the models are Whisper and MultiLingual Pro, with language detection and a timestamp on each segment. It lists more than 1,700 languages.
After the words, you ask for a summary, the action items, or an answer from that recording. The export list is TXT, SRT, VTT, and JSON. A sample transcript on the homepage is labeled Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. The Solo feature list does not name speaker separation as its own line.
The pricing page gives every Solo feature free for 3 days, then monthly or yearly billing. Solo is US$15 a month. Solo Yearly is US$67 a year, which the page calls about US$5.58 a month and a 63 percent saving against monthly billing. Both columns list unlimited transcriptions, uploads up to 10 GB, unlimited chat, summaries and action items, 3 workspaces, translation across 1,700 languages, those four export formats, the browser recorder, view-only guests, and priority email. The homepage says you can cancel anytime. The same site lists a transcription API and an MCP connector, for someone building their own tool. The Speechyou page keeps the meeting path.
VideoTranscript: the recording you already have
VideoTranscript starts from a recording that already exists. You paste a YouTube link or a playlist, or you upload a video or audio file. The result is timed text. You can search a phrase and jump back to that moment.
Separate Speaker sits on the form, next to Basic and Premium. The FAQ says that when several people talk, speaker separation makes questions, answers, objections, and handoffs easier to tell apart. It names interviews, panels, sales calls, user research, and group discussions. The form can also tag sounds such as laughter and applause, or clean filler words, false starts, and repetitions. Cleaned text is the easier read. A closer record keeps the repetitions.
From that text you can make topic chapters, executive notes, a translated version, a shareable outline, a conversation map, review questions, or flashcards. The FAQ says to review any line you will publish, cite, or keep as a formal record. Background noise, overlapping speech, uncommon names, and specialist words can change the result, so uncertain lines go back to their timestamps.
The homepage button says Start for free. The page does not print a free quota. Basic and Premium are on the form, and the page does not say what Premium adds or what it costs. The terms say credits and subscriptions are priced when you buy. The VideoTranscript page keeps that split.
Which one to open
- The meeting is still going, or you have a voice note, and you need the words, the summary, and the action items. Start with Speechyou. The trial is 3 days of Solo, then US$15 a month or US$67 a year. The sample transcript shows speaker labels. The plan list does not sell speaker separation on its own.
- The recording is already a file or a YouTube video, and you need to see who spoke, then hand someone the chapters and the notes. Start with VideoTranscript. Turn on Separate Speaker for an interview or a panel. Check names and specialist words against the timestamps before you publish the line.
- You need both. Use Speechyou for the live notes and VideoTranscript when you later mine a saved recording. Neither page says one file is handed to the other.
Speechyou and VideoTranscript are on Seailife if you want the trial and the speaker switch beside this split.