I am thrilled by Cockatoo! I am thrilled by Cockatoo! It transcribes even spoken dialect in proper written language. That's outstanding. And I stop saving extra copies of the transcrips. They are always and securely available on Cockatoos's platform and even separated minute by minute. You always have your full overview over the whole text. Really great!

Fees too high The 1-star review is not a reflection of their service, nor is it a reflection on the quality of their transcriptions, which sets the benchmark in the industry. I have tested other transcription services and none even come close. However, having been a subscriber and regular user, I find their 264% increase in annual subscription rate way off the scale. I'm sorry, but as I don't use anything like the available word or file limit allowed, I will not be renewing. Perhaps they might consider offering a lower annual subs rate for a lower usage requirement.

Accurate and fast transcription, saved me tons of time I used to do transcriptions the old way many years ago. It was quite time consuming. Later I used real time transcribing with my recordings, which was helpful. This newer AI tool is way more accurate than transcribing software I used before, did quite well with different accents in Turkish, and did the job quite fast, highly recommended.

French to Eng SRT file for use in Adobe… Exporting a SRT file for use in Adobe Premier, the transcription is very out of sync with the audio file that I provided, as in each line is randomly out of sync, so its not just an issue of retiming the sequence. There are is a lot of text out of order also. Some times text is repeated many times. Big waste of time and money. On the plus side the French to English is fairly good, but because I don't speak both languages I will not be able to sync the files one line at a time and make the necessary corrections.

Such time saved thanks to cockatoo Such time saved thanks to cockatoo. Still difficulties to understand specific terms when it comes to scientific conferences. But it is fine, because then you only have to listen once in normal speed to correct the few issues (predictables) of the transcript. I will 100% sure come back to cockatoo for my next transcripts. A couple of comments though : more transparency about the storage of data (where, how long, possible complete destruction of both transcript and video/audio) would be very welcome. Or maybe propose an offline software alternative for confidential data (very often in research). Those would be very helpful improvements !