Good Tape

What is Good Tape?

Zetland, a Danish digital daily, launched Good Tape to save journalists time and effort in transcribing interviews manually or with expensive and unreliable services. They made Good Tape using OpenAI’s Whisper AI model, which is great at understanding different accents and languages.

Features

• Safe and encrypted transcription

All files and texts are safe and encrypted.

• Transcription by computers

Computers use speech recognition technology to record audio.

• Get 20 minutes of audio transcribed at no cost.

The first 20 minutes are free.

• Support for popular audio file types

Add music in MP3, WAV, or M4A format, among others.

• Pick from a variety of languages.

English, Spanish, French, and more to transcribe audio.

Use cases of Good Tape

1. Meetings.
2. Interviews.
3. Lessons.
4. Voicemails.
5. Groups of people.

How to Use Good Tape?

• Visit the Good Tape website to sign up for an account.
• Next, they can upload a 20-minute audio file. It works with MP3, WAV, M4A, and more music formats.
• Good Tape transcribes the audio file using technology that automatically recognizes speech.
• The user receives the transcript by email.
• As well as English, Spanish, French, and other languages, users can pick from a list of transcribed languages.

Who is Using Good Tape?

1. Reporters: Type up conversations quickly and correctly.
2. Businesses: Transcribe minutes from meetings, conferences, and training classes.
3. Language learners: Read transcripts and practice listening.
4. Students: Write down lessons and class discussions so you can study them.
5. Researchers: A wide variety of user tests, focus groups, and more can be easily transcribed.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• The service secures your audio files and deletes them after transcription to keep them safe.
• It is very fast and accurate when transcribing audio files in any language.
• It’s free for private and occasional users, and for business users, there’s a freemium approach.
• The people who made it are journalists, and it works best for transcribing conversations.
• It gives you a text file with time codes, a text file without time codes, and a voice-over file.

Cons

• For free transcripts, you can only record for 20 minutes. If you want to record for longer, you may need to pay for a plan.
• Audio files that are n’t.mp3 are preferred over other types.
• Examples of Use and ApplicationsIt doesn’t let you change the layout or editing of the transcribed text.
• If the music files or backgrounds aren’t very good, it might not work well.
• Live streaming and video files are not supported.

Pricing & Plan

Everyone can use Good Tape for free right now, but they want to add a “freemium” approach in the future. Professionals who need more security, speed, and ease of use will have to pay a monthly fee. Personal and casual users can still use Good Tape for free. Most people won’t have a problem with this because Good Tape claims to save them a lot of time and money.

FAQs

1. What kinds of music files does GoodTape work with?

You can use Good Tape with MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, FLAC, and more.

2. How well does the automatic copy work?

The quality of the music affects how well the transcription works. When the sound is clean, it’s more than 95% accurate. Audio that isn’t very good may have lower accuracy rates.

3. How long does it take to have my work typed up?

It takes less than an hour to copy most files. Work time is based on the size and language of the file.