Happy Scribe

The core engine turns audio and video into text across more than 150 languages and dialects, with automatic language detection so you don't have to set it before recording. On the platform's own tests, its accuracy runs up to 15 points higher than some competing transcription tools, depending on the language. You can upload a file, paste a link, or pull a YouTube video, and the draft lands in the editor for review. It covers the common publishing formats you'd need for captions or a document.

The notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls from your calendar and transcribes them live. It can auto-join scheduled meetings, send notes to participants afterward, and pull meeting summaries with action items. There's a browser recorder too, and recording on Mac or phone means no bot appears in the call. For teams that live in meetings, this is the part that replaces manual note-taking and turns every call into a record you can search.

This subtitle generator turns any video into captions, then a subtitle translation step moves them into another language in one click. Export formats span the ones editors and platforms expect, including SRT, VTT, STL, Premiere XML, and FCPXML, and you can burn hardcoded subtitles into an MP4. Translation covers a large set of languages, so a single recording can reach several audiences. It's aimed at creators, educators, and media teams that need captions as part of the workflow rather than as an afterthought.

The browser editor lets you fix the transcript, label speakers, and adjust timestamps without leaving the page. An AI glossary stores product names, people, and acronyms once so every transcript and summary uses your spelling. Style guides and glossaries scale on the higher plans, which keeps terminology consistent when several people handle the same project. This is where the raw AI draft becomes something you'd actually publish.

Paid plans include shared workspaces, seats, and roles, so a team works on the same files with permissions that match how the organization runs. Business plans add unlimited style guides and glossaries, usage analytics, and centralized billing. Real-time editing and comments mean review happens inside the tool. For agencies and larger teams, that structure is the difference between a personal tool and something the whole department can rely on.

The REST API gives developers full access to transcription, subtitling, and export, with token authentication, folder management, and webhooks that fire when a job finishes. That means you can build Happy Scribe into a pipeline rather than using the app by hand. On top of the API, native integrations cover Google Drive, Dropbox, YouTube, and Vimeo, while Zapier links thousands of other apps. There's also an MCP server so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can pull from your recordings.