Sonix
Automated transcription, translation and subtitling in 54+ languages with an in browser editor and API.
Best for Multilingual transcription billed by the hour
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What it does
Sonix is an automated transcription, translation, and audio analysis platform. You upload audio, video, or documents and receive timestamped text transcripts, subtitles, translations, and summaries. It is designed for media companies, researchers, legal teams, and healthcare organizations.
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Automated speech to text transcription
Converts recorded speech into text transcripts with timestamps across more than 54 languages. It processes audio faster than real time while accounting for regional accents and dialects.
Use caseA legal team transcribes bodycam footage and depositions into searchable, timestamped text in minutes.
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Speaker identification and diarization
Analyzes voice patterns to separate dialogue into paragraphs and identifies distinct speakers across interruptions or overlaps. It also lets users assign names or use voiceprints to auto tag speakers.
Use caseA researcher separates and labels dialogue across multitrack interview recordings to organize qualitative data.
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Multilingual translation
Translates completed transcripts into other languages using neural machine translation. It applies existing transcription allowances to generate translated scripts and subtitles.
Use caseAn audiovisual director transcribes an English recording and translates it into French for international distribution.
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In browser transcript editor
Synchronizes text directly with audio playback so users can click any word to play that exact point in time. It includes options to edit text, adjust timestamps, leave comments, and search across lines.
Use caseA motion designer clicks through a video transcript to correct specific words and synchronize timing before creating final assets.
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Automated subtitles and captions
Creates frame accurate subtitle files such as SRT and VTT formatted for broadcast and web video standards. It also offers options to burn captions directly into video files.
Use caseA video director splits a transcript into subtitles and exports an SRT file directly to video editing software.
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Integrations and API automation
Connects transcription workflows to video conferencing tools, cloud storage providers, and third party apps via Zapier and webhooks. It provides REST API access to submit media files and collect transcripts programmatically.
Use caseA team automatically imports recorded Zoom calls into Sonix and sends finished Word documents into Google Drive without manual file handling.
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Written from Sonix's own website, checked . Each feature links to the page it comes from; images are Sonix's own.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free | $0 | per account | 30 minutes |
| Pay As You Go | Not listed | Not listed | per hour | $10/hr |
| Core | $25 | $22.92 | per user | 5 hrs/mo transcription, 5 hrs AI workspace |
| Advanced | $50 | $45.83 | per user | 20 hrs/mo transcription, 25 hrs AI workspace |
| Pro | $80 | $73.33 | per user | 40 hrs/mo transcription, 100 hrs AI workspace |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Not listed | per account | contact sales |
From Sonix's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front.
Before you pay
- How to cancel
- Subscribers can stop their subscription by clicking 'cancel subscription' on their account page.
What Sonix says
Yes, you can stop your subscription by clicking 'cancel subscription'. This will stop you from being billed again. You can do this from your account page: https://my.sonix.ai/account
Source page - Renews automatically
- Yes
What Sonix says
Yes, you can stop your subscription by clicking 'cancel subscription'. This will stop you from being billed again.
Source page - Card needed for the trial
- No
- Trains on your data
- No
- Data retention
- Enterprise and legal enterprise plans offer file retention and deletion controls.
- Export your data
- Yes
- HIPAA
- Yes
- SOC 2
- Yes
What Sonix says
SOC 2 Type 2 certified with 100+ security controls continuously monitored.
Source page - GDPR
- Yes
- Discounts
- Special discounted pricing is offered for students, teachers/professors, faculty members, and non profit workers.
What Sonix says
If you are a student, teacher/professor, faculty member, or work at a non profit, we have special discounted pricing for you
Source page
Only what Sonix's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
Getting started with Sonix
- Sign up for a free Sonix trial with 30 minutes of free transcription.
- Upload your audio file from your computer, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
- Select the language spoken in your file.
- Let Sonix AI extract and transcribe your audio automatically.
- Polish your transcript in the browser based AudioText Editor.
- Download your transcript as a text file.
Written from Sonix's own help pages: sonix.ai/how-to-convert-mp3-to-text
Sonix video tutorials
Independent creators on YouTube, not Sonix or us. The video loads from YouTube only when you press play.
The free trial
Trial only: 30 minutes free transcription, no card
Questions people ask about Sonix
How much does Sonix cost?
Paid plans start at $25 a month (Core). 6 plans are listed above, from Sonix's own pricing page.
Is Sonix free?
There is a free trial but no free plan: 30 minutes free transcription, no card.
How do I cancel Sonix?
Subscribers can stop their subscription by clicking 'cancel subscription' on their account page. Source
Does Sonix train its AI on my data?
No, the company says your data is not used for training. Source
Is Sonix HIPAA compliant?
Yes. Source
Do I need a credit card to try Sonix?
No, you can start without a credit card. Source
Does Sonix have a student or other discount?
Special discounted pricing is offered for students, teachers/professors, faculty members, and non profit workers. Source
Does Sonix have an API?
Yes.
What is the difference between your plans?
Pay As You Go is a single user plan with no subscription where you pay a flat rate per hour prorated to the second, whereas Core, Advanced, and Pro are multi user subscription plans with monthly allowances of transcription and AI analysis hours. Source
What do you mean by hourly rate? Is it length of audio/video, time to transcribe, or time on the Sonix website?
Hourly transcription relates to the length of the audio or video file uploaded, not transcription duration or website usage time, prorated down to the nearest second. Source
Are there additional charges for translation?
Translation draws from your transcription hours on Core, Advanced, and Pro, or requires purchasing more hours on pay as you go. Source
How are my free minutes applied?
Every new account receives 30 free minutes, which apply to your first upload even if you purchase additional minutes. Source
Works with
- Integrations
- Zoom, Teams, Zapier, Adobe Premiere, Google Drive, Dropbox, Clio, Relativity, NetDocuments
- Languages
- 54+ languages
Where this came from
Plans, prices and limits were copied from Sonix's own pages, then checked .
- sonix.ai/pricing
- sonix.ai/
- sonix.ai/enterprise
- sonix.ai/legal/pricing
- help.sonix.ai/en/
- sonix.ai/step-by-step-tutorials
- sonix.ai/introduction-to-sonix
- sonix.ai/how-to-convert-mp3-to-text
- sonix.ai/how-to-convert-mp3-to-pdf
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