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Convia and transcription tools

Transcription produces the text. Convia decides what to do with it.

Convia does not transcribe. The transcript arrives with the recording and editing chain you already run, and clips that come back from Descript carry theirs with them.

If you already run a transcription tool, it is producing raw input Convia works from. There is no conflict and very little overlap.

What a transcription tool does that Convia does not

  • High-accuracy speech to text, often with speaker identification
  • Timestamped transcripts for editing and search
  • Meeting recording and summarisation, for the meeting-focused tools
  • Translation and subtitling, where offered
  • A searchable archive of spoken content

Speech to text is a specialised job with good tools already in it, and Convia is not one of them.

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Where the transcript comes from

This is the question the category hides, and it has a dull answer: for most people the text is a by-product of the chain they already pay for, not a separate purchase.

Descript is the clearest case. Convia sends the recording over, the edit happens there, and what comes back lands in Convia as the finished episode or as clips, each one carrying its transcript. Nothing is transcribed twice.

If your material starts in meetings and calls rather than in a studio, a dedicated transcription tool is where that text already lives. Pointing Convia at it is the connection worth asking for, and the request button on the table below is how that gets prioritised.

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Frequently asked questions

No. Convia works from the transcript rather than producing it, which is why a transcription tool sits alongside Convia rather than against it.

Not necessarily. The transcript arrives with the recording and editing chain, and clips returned from Descript come back with theirs. A dedicated tool earns its place when you want searchable text in its own right, and it works alongside Convia when you have one.

Tell us if that connection would help. Demand is how we decide what gets built next.

Yes. Better input produces better content, which is true of every tool in this category.

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