Is GPTScribe really free?+
Yes — the core product is free and there is no sign-up required to use it. Every visitor gets three full transcripts every day with no per-minute cap, which is enough for most students, podcasters and solo journalists to never hit a paywall. We do not ask for a credit card, we do not start a hidden trial, and we do not lock features like SRT export, VTT export or translation behind an account. If you hit your free quota for the day, the limit resets automatically the next day. Heavy users (teams shipping hundreds of hours a week) can contact us about a paid tier, but it is genuinely optional and the free product is fully featured.
How accurate is the transcription?+
On clean to moderately noisy audio GPTScribe lands around 99.8% word-level accuracy in English, and similar numbers across the other major languages we support. That is close to professional human transcription, and meaningfully better than the free auto-captions on most video platforms. Accuracy holds up well on real-world recordings with light background noise, music beds, soft accents and multiple speakers — the underlying model was specifically trained to be robust to those conditions instead of pristine studio audio. For technical jargon, brand names, or specialty vocabulary, we recommend a quick read-through; that is usually the only place where small fixes are needed.
Which languages and accents are supported?+
GPTScribe supports more than a hundred spoken languages, including English (US, UK, Australian, Indian and more), Mandarin and Cantonese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and many more. You can leave the source language on Auto and the model will detect it from the first few seconds of audio, even on multilingual recordings where the speakers switch back and forth. You can also pick a target language to receive a clean translated version alongside the original transcript, which is especially useful for interviews, courses and content that needs to ship in more than one market.
What audio and video formats can I upload?+
GPTScribe accepts essentially every consumer audio and video format you are likely to have. Audio: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, WMA and voice-memo formats. Video: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, FLV and 3GP. If you do not have a file you can also paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, X, Twitch, Discord and the rest of the supported platforms — we automatically pull the audio track and skip the manual download step. There is no fixed per-file size limit for typical use, and long files are streamed and processed in parallel chunks, so an hour-long lecture transcribes about as fast as a ten-minute clip.
Is my audio private? Do you keep my files?+
Your audio is uploaded over an encrypted HTTPS connection and is only used to generate your transcript. Files are automatically removed from our servers shortly after the transcript is delivered to your browser — we do not retain your recordings, we do not train models on them, and we do not share or resell them to any third party. There is no account attached to the upload, so there is also no profile being built up around you. If your organisation has stricter compliance requirements (HIPAA, internal legal review and so on), reach out and we can talk through self-hosted and contractually-locked-down options.
Can I use the transcripts commercially?+
Yes. You own the output. Whatever you transcribe with GPTScribe — captions for a paid course, subtitles for a client video, an article built from an interview, internal meeting notes — is yours to use, edit, publish, and monetise without attribution. There is no license that grants us a back-door right to your transcripts or your source recordings, and you do not have to credit GPTScribe in your published work (though we always appreciate it when you do). The only thing we ask is that you do not knowingly transcribe content that you do not have permission to process, since that is on you and not on us.