VIENNA SCRIBE
Introducing Vienna Scribe
Vienna Scribe is a next generation transcription app. It delivers accurate transcripts to your phone in seconds.
It transforms your speech into clean, accurate text in seconds. It is available in the App Store today, and unlimited transcriptions cost only $99 a year.
We built Vienna Scribe because, though there are many transcription services, none met our own requirements of being reliable and private.
Accuracy
Vienna Scribe is much more accurate than competing transcription products. In our testing, Vienna Scribe had the lowest mean word error rate (WER) of the services we tested.
| Service | Mean WER |
|---|---|
| Siri | 18.3% |
| Google Assistant Typing | 4.9% |
| Vienna Scribe (Modified Whisper) | 2.5% |
Details on our testing setup and methodology are available here. Testing code is available on our GitHub.
Example 1
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Truth
some thoughts on the internet the year 2022 the internet was supposed to be a giant leap toward techno utopia it was supposed to be a tool that would allow each of us to peacefully thoughtfully and creatively live fulfilling lives but it has turned out to be nothing more than a giant media company almost every aspect of our culture has been commercialized sanitized and packaged computing now quite far from the escape the 60’s dreamed of only managed to create a new generation of internet mega corps who in turn invented a new digital breed of consumerism these corporations have near total control over the flow of information in our society by controlling what is posted and consumed they determine the overall culture the overall values and the overall truths large internet companies who already enjoy special access to our government are tending toward something much darker the end result looks to be that the churning industrial machine that is internet technology will merge into the machine of the state at the highest level and the internet will become yet another tool of state control without fundamental changes to everyday life on the internet we are all destined to become digital serfs continually driven to distraction by the constant assault of form without meaning
Siri
some thoughts on the internet the year 2022 the internet was supposed to be a giant leap tow techno utopia was supposed to be a tool that would allow each of us to peacefully thoughtfully and creatively live for filling lives but it turned out we nothing more than a giant media company almost every aspect of our culture‘s been commercialized sanitized and packaged computing now quite far from the escape the 60s dreamed of only managed to create a new generation of a in megacorpse who in turn and then to the de of consumerism have total control over the the information and society i posted cons culture the all values truth to go to toward something much darker the end result looks to be that the churning industrial machine that is internet technology emergence of the machine of the state at the highest level and the internet we come yet another tool of stage control that fundamental changes every day life on the internet we are all destined to become digital serfs continually driven to distraction by the constant assault form without meaning
Google Voice
some thoughts on the internet the year 2022 the internet was supposed to be a giant leap for techno utopia it was supposed to be a tool that would allow each of us to peacefully thoughtfully and creatively live fulfilling lives but has turned out to be nothing more than a giant media company almost every aspect of our culture has been commercialized sanitized and packaged computing now quite far from the escape the 60s dreamed of only managed to create a new generation of internet mega corpse who in turn invented a new distributive consumerism these corporations have near total control over the flow of information in our society by controlling what is posted and consumed they determine the overall culture the overall values and the overall truths large internet companies who already enjoy special access to our government are tending towards something much darker the end result looks to be that the churning industrial machine that is internet technology will merge into the machine of the state at the highest level and the internet will become yet another tool of state control without fundamental changes everyday life on the internet we are all destined to become digital surfs continually driven to distraction by the constant assault a form without meaning
Vienna Scribe
some thoughts on the internet the year 2022 the internet was supposed to be a giant leap toward techno utopia it was supposed to be a tool that would allow each of us to peacefully thoughtfully and creatively live fulfilling lives but it has turned out to be nothing more than a giant media company almost every aspect of our culture has been commercialized sanitized and packaged computing now quite far from the escape the 60s dreamed of only managed to create a new generation of internet mega-corps who in turn invented a new digital breed of consumerism these corporations have near total control over the flow of information in our society by controlling what is posted and consumed they determine the overall culture the overall values and the overall truths large internet companies who already enjoy special access to our government are tending toward something much darker the end result looks to be that the churning industrial machine that is internet technology will merge into the machine of the state at the highest level and the internet will become yet another tool of state control without fundamental changes to everyday life on the internet we are all destined to become digital serfs continually driven to distraction by the constant assault a form without meaning
Example 2
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Truth
A Revolutionary Age is an age of action; the present age is an age of advertisement, or an age of publicity: nothing happens, but there is instant publicity about it. A revolt in the present age is the most unthinkable act of all; such a display of strength would confuse the calculating cleverness of the times. Nevertheless, some political virtuoso might achieve something nearly as great. He would write some manifesto or other which calls for a General Assembly in order to decide on a revolution, and he would write it so carefully that even the Censor himself would pass on it; and at the General Assembly he would manage to bring it about that the audience believed that it had actually rebelled, and then everyone would placidly go home, after they had spent a very nice evening out. An enormous grounding in scholarship is alien to the youth of today, in fact, they would find it laughable. Nevertheless, some scientific virtuoso might achieve something even greater. He would draw up some prospectus outlining systematically some all embracing, all explaining system that he was about to write, and he would manage to achieve the feat of convincing the reader of the prospectus that he had in fact read the entire system. The Age of Encyclopedists is gone, when with great pains men wrote large Folios; now we have an age of intellectual tourists, small little encyclopedists, who, here and there, deal with all sciences and all existence. And a genuine religious rejection of the world, followed with constant self-denial, is equally unthinkable among the youth of our time.
Siri
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Google Voice
a revolutionary age is an age of action the present age is an age of advertisement or an age of publicity nothing happens but there is instant publicity about it or volt in the present age is the most unthinkable act of all such a display of strength would confuse the calculating cleverness of the times nevertheless some political virtuoso might achieve something nearly as great you would write some manifesto or other which calls for general assembly in order to decide on a revolution and he would write it so carefully that even the sense for himself would pass on it and at the general assembly he would managed to bring it about that audience believed that it had actually rebelled and then everyone would placidly go home after they had spent a very nice evening out and enormous grounding and scholarship is alien to the use of today in fact they would find it laughable nevertheless some scientific virtuoso might achieve something even greater he would draw up some perspectus outlining systematically some all embracing all explaining system that he was about to write and he would manage to achieve the feed of convincing the reader of the perspectus that he had in fact read the entire system the age of encyclopedists is gone when with great pains men wrote large folios now we have an age of intellectual tourists small little encyclopedists who here and there deal with all sciences and all existence and a genuine religious rejection of the world followed with a constant self-denial is equally unthinkable among the youth of our time
Vienna Scribe
a revolutionary age is an age of action the present age is an age of advertisement or an age of publicity nothing happens but there is instant publicity about it a revolt in the present age is the most unthinkable act of all such a display of strength would confuse the calculating cleverness of the times nevertheless some political virtuoso might achieve something nearly as great he would write some manifesto or other which calls for a general assembly in order to decide on a revolution and he would write it so carefully that even the censor himself would pass on it and at the general assembly he would manage to bring it about that audience believed that it had actually rebelled and then everyone would placidly go home after they had spent a very nice evening out an enormous grounding in scholarship is alien to the use of today in fact they would find it laughable nevertheless some scientific virtuoso might achieve something even greater he would draw up some prospectus outlining systematically some all embracing all explaining system that he was about to write and he would manage to achieve the feat of convincing the reader of the prospectus that he had in fact read the entire system the age of encyclopedists is gone when with great pains men wrote large folios now we have an age of intellectual tourists small little encyclopedists who here and there deal with all sciences and all existence and the genuine religious rejection of the world followed with a constant self-denial is equally unthinkable among the youth of our time
Reliability
Reliable means speech-to-text accurate enough that you don’t have to proofread it. If you have to proofread it's not faster than typing.
Google, Apple, and Microsoft offer speech-to-text services for free as part of their mobile and desktop operating systems. However, most people do not use these services in their daily lives because the results are unreliable.
Using Siri or Google Assistant often takes longer than typing the same message.
These services make enough mistakes that close proofreading is required. Some mistakes look very close to correct and are easy to miss.
Vienna Scribe offers a generational leap in accuracy. It is great for quickly dictating an email, a Slack message, a text, etc. Often these transcripts have no errors.
Our audio engine is based on a modified version of Whisper, by OpenAI. It’s the most accurate speech to text model on industry standard benchmarks. Details
Privacy
Vienna Scribe is totally private. We could not access your recordings or transcripts if we wanted to.
- Accounts are anonymous
- All transcripts and audio files are stored on device
- We do NOT store your recordings
- We do NOT store your transcripts
We take privacy extremely seriously. We are users of Vienna Scribe ourselves and would not trust a service with confidential material unless we knew internal access was not just controlled, but architecturally impossible.
Many other apps store audio files and transcripts on their servers indefinitely. This can be convenient and helps those companies train more accurate models on your data, but we believe it is a massive privacy violation. It also makes their servers a honeypot for future data breaches.
How is this possible?
Our audio engine is computationally intensive and cannot be run on current generation mobile devices. When a user requests a transcript, their audio is sent securely to our servers where it is processed. The transcript is streamed back to their device. Once the full transcript has been received by the user's device, the audio file and transcript are permanently deleted from our servers.
Pricing
We don't like caps and we don't like minutes. We have one plan and it's unlimited.
Even with state-of-the-art accuracy, we provide far better value than competing services that charge by the minute or have a cap on the number of transcripts one can generate per month.
What's Next?
Our mission at Vienna Hypertext is to build tools for digital renaissance. We hope Vienna Scribe will allow many users to live simpler and more private digital lives.
We are currently working on a killer integration between Vienna Scribe and Vienna Hypertext. We'll have more to say about that soon.