Upload a recording, get a transcript in seconds, and spend your time editing the few words that matter instead of typing everything from scratch.
What first drew you to this project? Was there a moment when the idea started to feel real?
It was the first conversation with our community. Listening to their stories changed the questions we were asking.
Could you tell me more about that conversation, and what you decided to do differently afterward?
A transcript editor takes raw speech-to-text output and structures it so you can actually use it. Speaker labels show who said what, punctuation makes the text readable, and word-level timestamps let you jump straight to any moment in the recording.
Without these features, you get a wall of unpunctuated text with no way to tell which person is speaking or where a quote appears in the original file.
Even the best transcription engine will mishear proper nouns, brand names, and industry terms. A transcript editor gives you the interface to find those errors fast and correct them in context, so the final document is accurate enough to publish or share with a client.
Cockatoo's editor runs entirely in your browser. Click into any word to correct it, search the full text, or jump to a timestamp. When you're done editing, Canvas generates summaries, action items, or formatted notes from the transcript without leaving the page.
Designed for the fastest turnaround — up to 120× real time.
Mode preview · Select your mode when uploading.Keep transcripts as an archive, share files with collaborators, or move recordings between devices without paying separately for cloud storage.
Upload a video file and Cockatoo extracts the audio, transcribes it, and lets you export the result as an SRT subtitle file with accurate timestamps. No separate audio extraction step, no subtitle editor to learn.
Cockatoo's document translation handles the file formats you already work in. Upload a PDF report, a PowerPoint deck, an Excel spreadsheet, or a Word document, pick the target language, and get a translated file back without reformatting or copy-pasting through a web form.
Transcribe an audio file in one language, then translate the transcript into another. Cockatoo handles both halves of the job in the same tool, so you can turn a recorded interview in Spanish into an English transcript or a French podcast into German notes without switching platforms.
Cockatoo's editor renders right-to-left scripts correctly, so you can read and edit transcripts in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Urdu the way those languages are actually written. The interface adapts to the script direction automatically when you upload a file in one of those languages.
Upload the audio file, get a timestamped transcript, then use Canvas to pull out the key points, quotes, or action items. You can search the full text for a topic, jump to that moment in the recording, and copy the exact wording without scrubbing through the timeline by ear.
Add accurate subtitles to training videos, marketing clips, or recorded presentations so viewers can follow along in noisy environments, search engines can index the content, and accessibility requirements are met. Export the SRT file and upload it to your video host in one step.
Send a PowerPoint presentation or an Excel financial model through Cockatoo's document translator and get the same file back with all text translated into the target language. Formatting, charts, and formulas stay intact, so you're not rebuilding slides or entering data by hand.
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Illustrative subtitle previewYou can see exactly how the engine performs in your language before you upload a single file.
Cockatoo shows you the data so you can decide whether the tool is good enough for your work.
Cockatoo runs on its own transcription engine, so you're not waiting on third-party API queues or paying per-hour reseller margins.
| Language | Word error rate |
|---|---|
| English | 3.9% |
| Spanish | 1.0% |
| French | 7.8% |
| German | 2.4% |
Lower is better. Selected per-language results from the public benchmark. Updated October 27, 2026.
Explore the full accuracy reportYou record the video, then spend an hour typing captions by hand or fixing the auto-generated ones your editing software produced. By the time the subtitles are synced and accurate, the project is overdue and you've burned half a day on a task that should take minutes.
Paste a YouTube link, upload an MP3, drag in an MP4, or pull a file from Google Drive or Dropbox. Cockatoo detects the language automatically and transcribes it without asking you to pick codecs, convert formats, or specify the source language first.
You receive a contract, a research paper, or a product spec in another language. The free translation tools break the formatting, so you end up copying paragraphs one at a time into a web form and pasting the results into a new document, hoping nothing important gets lost in the process.
Cockatoo processes uploads in US and EU regions. When you delete your account, your files are removed from storage. Support engineers can access your files only with your explicit permission, not by default.
Store transcripts, upload large files without hitting email attachment limits, and share links to recordings or documents without paying for a separate cloud storage service.
Customers rate the tool after using it on their own files, not after a demo or a trial that never converted.
Every support ticket is answered by a person, not a bot.
“The app has simplified my dissertation work by trascribing the interviews I am working with currently.”
“This transcriber is incredibly accurate, and not bothered by all the different accents i present it with. Highly recommended.”
Cockatoo is self-serve from the first minute. Create an account, upload a file, and get a transcript without talking to sales or sitting through a demo.
3 free transcripts. No credit card required.
There is no monthly cap, no rollover limit, and no surprise overage charge.
The highest-accuracy modes have a weekly usage limit shown in your Settings page, but the default modes are unlimited in the original sense of the word.
Many tools advertise unlimited transcription, then bury a monthly hour cap in the fine print or throttle processing speed after you hit an undisclosed threshold. Cockatoo's unlimited is not a marketing term. The default modes have no hour cap, and heavy users prove it every month.
| Paid-plan usage | How it works |
|---|---|
| Default modes | No monthly hour cap |
| Highest-accuracy modes | Weekly usage budget shown in Settings |
| When the budget is reached | Unlimited default modes remain available |
