# Changelog of Transcribe Interview to Text — for Journalists & Researchers (`sian.agency/transcribe-interview-to-text`) Actor

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## Interview Transcriber - Changelog

### 2026-04-27 — 🎉 v1.0 Launch

- 📰 **Built for Journalists & Researchers** — drop interview recordings (phone-recorded, studio-recorded, or hosted) and get clean transcripts with speaker labels
- 📤 **Direct File Upload** — upload `.m4a`, `.mp3`, `.wav`, `.mp4`, and more from your computer; no need to host files first
- 🎤 **Speaker Diarization** — interviewer vs guest separation out of the box for clean attributed quotes
- ⏱️ **Word-Level Timestamps** — `segments[].words[]` carries `{word, start, end, speaker}` for every spoken word; ready for precise quote pulling
- 🌐 **Translate to English** — turn foreign-language interviews into English text in one pass; perfect for international journalism and cross-cultural research
- 🎬 **SRT and VTT Subtitle Export** — re-publish interviews as subtitled videos or accessibility captions
- 🌍 **99+ Languages** — automatic language detection
- 🇪🇺 **EU-Region Processing** — optional GDPR-friendly EU-only processing for academic and IRB-governed research
- 🚀 **Bulk Processing** — 10× parallel on the paid tier; transcribe an entire research project's interviews in one run

#### 💎 User Benefits

- $2.16 per 60-minute interview vs ~$90 on Rev.com — 40× cheaper for the same accuracy
- Clean attributed quotes ready for publication, no manual speaker tagging
- Word-level timestamps make quote-pulling and clip extraction trivial
- Translate non-English interviews in the same pass — no second tool needed
- GDPR-aligned EU processing for IRB-compliant academic research

#### 🎯 Use Cases

- 📰 Investigative journalists transcribing source interviews and pulling attributed quotes
- 🎙️ Long-form podcasters generating publication-ready transcripts of guest interviews
- 🧪 Qualitative researchers coding participant transcripts in NVivo, MAXQDA, or Atlas.ti
- 📊 Market research firms transcribing focus groups and customer 1:1 sessions
- 📚 Oral history projects preserving long-form interviews with timestamped speaker tracks
- 🎓 Academic researchers conducting fieldwork in foreign-language contexts
- ✍️ Authors and biographers working from hours of recorded conversations
- 🎬 Documentary filmmakers preparing rough-cut transcripts of interview tape