Sonix
About Sonix
Sonix is an audio and video transcription solution that enables businesses to transcribe, organize and search video and audio files. The fully automated software is able to transcribe 30 minutes of audio or video in approximately 3-4 minutes, for industries that require quick and stress-free transcription services.
As automated transcripts are not 100% accurate, Sonix allows the reviewing and editing of transcripts, with features including the online editor which allows users to polish a transcript while listening to the audio, and word confidence levels which highlight words that may need extra review due to low confidence during the transcription process. The user can also highlight and strikethrough the transcript to quickly find areas of focus later.
Sonix facilitates uploading and importing of videos and audio, with tools for allowing the user to drag and drop files from their local computer or have the software transcribe files stored on Google Drive and Dropbox. To aid with review, text and audio is synchronized to allow the user to click on any part of the transcript and play the audio from that exact moment.
Every word within transcripts is automatically indexed so that the user can jump to the exact moment when something was said in the file. Users can also slow down or speed up playback to simplify and ease the editing process. The high confidence words are shown in black while the low ones are highlighted in orange, so that the user know where to focus their attention when editing. The user can download a section of the audio by selecting that area of text, and Sonix allows the export of transcripts into various formats such as Microsoft Word and text file.
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- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2021/02/03
Couldn't have been easier. Once we connected our Zoom accounts, it is literally a click of a...
Couldn't have been easier. Once we connected our Zoom accounts, it is literally a click of a button to transcribe. We don't need every meeting transcribed but the auto transcription feature is available. Haven't really needed to contact support because it just works.
Pros
It is very easy to setup and use with our Zoom accounts. The pay-as-needed feature is perfect for us as sometimes we need it and sometimes we don't. I will spin up a zoom meeting and read a draft blog post or other content. With two clicks, have Sonix transcribe the meeting and I saved time on typing! We also have technical meetings that require specific notes from the meetings. It's nice to not have to pay a monthly or yearly subscription when we won't use it that often.
Cons
The entire setup process is very intuitive. It would be great if the transcription picked out the speaker so that when the first speaker is labeled, whenever that person speaks again, the speaker is "guessed" and I would have the ability to adjust as needed. This would save us a lot of time.
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Gong.ioReasons for Switching to Sonix
Pay as needed model. I wasn't sure how much the team would use it and it was very simple to train the team. I'm very happy with our choice.- Industry: Research
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Excellent and well worth the cost
Reviewed on 2023/06/27
Pros
Way better than Otter.ai and Microsoft Office, especially for accents and poor sound qual.Pricing is very reasonable and well worth all the saved hours compared to inferior free transcription services.
Cons
Little language support, but acceptable.It is not free, but is so cheap I do not view this as a con.
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
2 hours of interview now typed rubbish
Reviewed on 2020/01/01
Living in the UK I used this to transcribe a 2 hour discussion about local history. Lapel mics...
Living in the UK I used this to transcribe a 2 hour discussion about local history. Lapel mics meant it was a good quality recording. When selecting the language of the audio I chose English. The only option had a USA flag. I wonder if results might be better with an American voice?
After paying $20 - a price I was happy to pay - I have a long transcript of rubbish. It bears little resemblance to the audio!
I will finish with an example.
"He has two daughters lovely visited the farm. So it's going to be what for either one of them but it also has a bungalow that he built ice and knock knock her way in Castle Rock selection for a while. I'm on my best friend from schools from Casa Loma, so, I don't know but I don't know that I don't know the name. Well, it's just one of those it was country."
Pros
Easy to set up account and upload audio file. Good range of pricing options including for occasional user. Speed of results. A two hour interview (lapel mics for the 2 speakers) was back to me inside the hour.
Cons
The most important bit - very inaccurate typed record. Correcting it would take me much longer than starting and finishing the job myself.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
It's so accurate, it's scary!
Reviewed on 2021/12/15
It goes beyond transcription. It actually enhances the transcripted dialogue by automatically...
It goes beyond transcription. It actually enhances the transcripted dialogue by automatically cutting out all the repeated words as well as all the "hums" "erms" "aahs" which leaves the speaker free to talk naturally.
Also, the timestamps for the subtitles are 100% accurate. And The ability to customize pretty much anything is truly handy.
But the cherry on top of the cake is that my trial video was bilingual and the AI didn't miss a beat.
My original speech was in Portuguese with words here and there in English and despite the fact that I set up the transcription to Portuguese, all English words were transcribed correctly in English, including capitalization and THAT is waaaay beyond expected.
So, to whoever is behind the screen, nice one, people! I'm sure it was a lot of hard work but it certainly paid off. You guys have created the best product on the market by a mile.
I couldn’t recommend it more highly!
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Accuracy in:
Transcribing, translating into other languages, splitting subtitles.
Cons
Just not applicable. So far, it has delivered every single time.
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DescriptReasons for Choosing Sonix
Descript only offer English, the interface is not intuitive. The tutorials and help section are extremely poor.Switched From
DescriptReasons for Switching to Sonix
Accuracy, easy to use, fair price, multi-language- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Brilliant for transcribing
Reviewed on 2021/04/21
Fabulous
Fabulous
Pros
Really easy to use and get great results.
Cons
I can't actually think of any problems....
Sonix FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sonix.Q. What type of pricing plans does Sonix offer?
Sonix offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$22.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Sonix?
Sonix has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Sonix support?
Sonix supports the following languages:
Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Q. Does Sonix support mobile devices?
Sonix supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Sonix integrate with?
Sonix integrates with the following applications:
Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere Pro, AvidCX, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, MAXQDA, Okta
Q. What level of support does Sonix offer?
Sonix offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Chat
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