For journalists

Transcription for interviews and source material

Protecting sources sometimes means footage can't be uploaded anywhere — CaptionLab transcribes entirely on your own machine.

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Why local processing matters for journalism specifically

Source protection, pre-publication confidentiality, and working with sensitive interview subjects all argue against uploading raw footage to a cloud transcription service.

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Source protection

No upload step means no third-party server ever holds a copy of unpublished interview footage.

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Fast searchable transcripts

Transcribe hours of interview footage into a searchable text file for finding quotes quickly on deadline.

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Multilingual sources

Transcribe and translate interviews conducted in any of 99 languages directly to English for the newsroom.

Working on deadline

Because transcription runs locally against your Premiere Pro timeline, there's no upload wait and no cloud service queue between recording an interview and having a searchable transcript in hand.

Frequently asked questions

Is this safe enough for protecting a confidential source?
No footage is uploaded anywhere during transcription, which addresses one specific risk — overall source protection still depends on your full security practices (device security, storage, etc.), not this tool alone.
Can it transcribe phone or field recordings, not just studio interviews?
Yes, though accuracy on lower-quality audio (phone calls, noisy field recordings) will generally be lower than clean studio audio, as with any transcription tool.
Does it identify who's speaking in a multi-person interview?
It transcribes all speech but doesn't label individual speakers (no speaker diarization) in the current version.

Transcribe source footage without the upload risk

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