Listen411

Listen411 focuses on one job and does it quickly: converting audio or video into text. You can point it at a podcast episode found through the built-in search index — which covers millions of podcasts and hundreds of millions of episodes — or upload your own file. Processing is fast, with the service advertising roughly one minute of turnaround for a one-hour recording, and it emails you or updates a dashboard when the transcript is ready.

Small team workflows are the obvious target. Transcripts are delivered in several convenient formats at once: plain text for reading and pasting, SRT and VTT for subtitles, and JSON for programmatic use. Summaries are generated as well, which makes long interviews and panel episodes easier to skim. Language detection is automatic, and the supported set spans English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, and Ukrainian. A broad range of audio and video containers is accepted, including mp3, m4a, wav, flac, ogg, mp4, mov, and webm.

Pricing is deliberately simple and usage-based, which suits people who transcribe occasionally rather than daily. The service is operated by Listen Notes, Inc., and the domain Transcript.New acts as a shortcut alias for the same product, so you can open either one to start a transcript. There is a hosted dashboard for tracking jobs and a contact channel for sales or custom needs, but no software to install and no subscription commitment.