Amberscript Reviews

Amberscript has become a game-changer in my video production workflow. I usually write my video subtitles and sometimes podcast scripts after listening to my own words. It's a time consuming process and quite monotonous. But after I started using Amberscript, all I have to do is drag and drop my audio file into Amberscript, and then the script text is generated magically. It neatly captures my words spoken in English. The beauty is that it has multiple accent options just for English. So, even if you are a non-native English-speaking person, Amberscript can help. It has a neat editor within which we can edit the text easily using keyboard shortcuts, too. There is also a way to select the portion of text and it shows where in audio file waveform it's located. Its transcribing process works with AI capabilities - and that means it "learns" our words and tries to reduce the errors eventually.

With all its greatness, it still is not perfect. I have to do a final review to see if it picked all my spoken words correctly. Thanks to the text editor, I can search, edit directly in the editor. That being said, its transcription engine is in fact powerful and picks correctly almost 97% of the time. The hours limit duration is also quite less in their plans, in my opinion. However, we can purchase additional hours on a case-to-case basis.

You have a spoken interview transcribed in no time.
The Dutch (AI) text-to-speech function is the best I've seen. Good enough to save tons of time.

Can't think of anything now. Maybe integration with other software could be better. But uploading single files to Amberscript does the job for me. Certainly if I compare it to the time lost when I was transcribing everything myself.

It is easy to use. The file upload process is fast. The interface is user friendly. Allows Paypal checkout.

While the voices are clear, I anticipated some errors due to the music in the background (no lyrics) and one speaker's accent. I paid for the AI version thinking I could save time by using the time stamps and basic outline of the transcription to make my work faster. Unfortunately, this service could not differentiate well between the male and female speakers without long breaks between sentences. It also showed very very low accuracy for the non-native english speaker, and only moderate to low accuracy for the native speaker.

Works easy, is fast, I can always come back to old recordings on my account, an efficient help!

Sometimes I have interviews with non-British nor American partners who speak in English... On non-Germans who speak in German... And do not know it too well. What is worse, their pronounciation is not the "original" one. Then we sometimes come to a certain border because the software seems to be trained by natives of the respective languages. Would be good to teach it as well in "Conference English" or "Conference German". Guess that would also improve in the future.

It is very user friendly, great graphics, great that you can see the shortcuts at any moment. Helpful in analyzing long interviews.

Not all the words (especially jargon) are being understood and the program does not learn from mistakes it makes. That results in still tedious long work to adjust the automatically transcribed conversations. I was a little bit disappointed by the amount of work it still is to work out the interviews.

It was quick to start and upload a file.

Had the worst transcription performance on a file that I tested across 4 platforms.

Beware of pricing. Signed up for the monthly option to try it out for a month and was told that it could only be cancelled after 3 months? Unless I'm missing it this isn't listed on their pricing page https://www.amberscript.com/en/pricing/

Some of the worst customer service I've experienced overall.

Amberscript is wonderful if you want to create blogs and other content from your videos.

Amberscript has a subtitle option. However, it is not very customizable. This is what I originally purchased Amberscript for. But I still use it.

I've just bought 60 minutes of audio-translation fro 15 €. My interview was ready in 10 minutes and the text was 90% in line with the actual speech. I can't think of a more precise service.

There's nothing wrong in the service. Of course I'd appreciate more accuracy in the translation.

the ease of the audio player connected with the transcription is brilliant to use while sitting next to the editor. Also that you can formulate a starting timecode, which makes it sync with the original timeline in the editing software.

It's still quite some work to do the final editing, but allltogether it's a big plus.

20 Minutes interviews with 20 questions and answers is hard to integrate i an edit. For me it's easier to read and mark answers instead of scrolling through the material. The Timecode is in the word document, so the orientiation is perfect.

The possibilities of formating the word documents could be better.

the combination of the video, the self reading tekst and the transcript

the price you have to pay, it is too expensive for a student

It works generally very well - it has cut down a lot on my transcription time, and in general, the software is good and transcribes well.

Has problems with some English accents, which is annoying. I interview people all over Europe and normally it's fine, but northern English accents are a problem that I have to spend a lot of time fixing.

Works perfectly, identifies mostly flawlessly many accents and different intonations.

No copy paste. Having to work with internet.

I love that it divides automatically in different speakers.
That German is available. (it is not available in a lot of transcription software)
I also like that I can choose to let it transcibe from a person.
I looove. That I can let the audio play while editing.

I didn't use it so much. But I would like to have some options for comments

The easy to use functions with a good pricing system, to do automatic transcriptions.

There is nearly nothing yet. Only a "copy & paste" function would be great.

The automatic transcription with less time

It is too expensive for students. I would prefer some student offer packages.

earning easly money by posting subtitles

the complication of registration and work

automatically transcription for variance video and can be used with other software, like opencast

we do not have feature which we do not like, we are new to the system

this software is easy and good for transcript.

its quality, without it i don't know what i would have done. amber-scripts is amazing and good for a student like me.

Simple interface, fast translation and decent editor are great.

Some of the features in the editor (cut n paste, etc) couldbe improved.

the auto-transcription and the possibility to export in srt

to tell the truth for the moment nothing has disappointed me

That we have 10 minutes free at the beggining

Nothing, the work is doing great and there is free pathway at the begining

I really appreciated the ease of the product and lightning fast speed of transcription. It helped me get my editing started quickly and accurately.

No real issues with my early use--the product worked fine and fast

The quality of the text is pretty good and it does not reguire too much self-writing.

That you could have a chance to skip in the audio by choosing a sentence from the text while it´s playing.