Source protection starts with where your audio goes
When you promised a source discretion, the recording itself is the sensitive object. FastScribe transcribes on our own servers rather than piping your audio through a third-party AI service, so the file is handled in one place, by one company, for one purpose.
The audio is deleted the moment your transcript is ready. Only the text remains in your account, so there is no library of interview recordings sitting on someone else's infrastructure waiting to be subpoenaed, leaked, or scraped. If the recording exists anywhere after that, it is only where you choose to keep it.
From recording to quotable copy on deadline
Every transcript comes back with timestamps, which is what makes it usable under deadline pressure. When your editor asks whether the official really said it that way, you jump straight to the moment in your own recording and check the quote against the audio before you publish. No transcript is perfect, and verifying quotes is still your job.
Export plain TXT to paste passages into your draft, or SRT and VTT if the interview is going into a published video and needs captions. Pro accounts add DOCX export for handing a clean transcript to an editor or fact-checker.
Long interviews and multi-part investigations
A free account raises that to thirty minutes and one hundred megabytes. Pro, at twelve dollars a month, takes files up to two gigabytes and five hours, enough for a marathon sit-down, and adds batch uploads for working through a stack of interviews from a long-running investigation, plus a priority queue and history kept forever.
Frequently asked questions
Can I transcribe an interview I recorded on my phone?
Yes. Upload the audio or video file your recorder app saved: MP3, voice memo exports, and common video formats all work. If the interview lives in an online video, download the file first, then upload it here.
What happens to the interview audio after transcription?
The audio file is deleted from our servers the moment your transcript is ready. Only the text transcript is kept so you can revisit and export it later. We keep your text, never your sound.
How long an interview can I upload?
Your free first file can run up to ten minutes and fifty megabytes with no signup. A free account raises that to thirty minutes and one hundred megabytes, and Pro handles files up to two gigabytes and five hours.
Is the transcript reliable enough to quote from?
Our own transcription engine handles clear interview audio well, but no automatic transcript should be quoted unverified. Use the timestamps to check any quote you plan to print against your original recording before it goes to your editor.