Turn hours of focus groups, interviews, and customer panels into searchable, quotable transcripts. No waiting. No guesswork.
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“It saves me time. I can finish the order on my way home.”Participant 2 · 00:12
Upload a focus group session or customer interview. Get back a timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript ready for analysis. Podcast episodes turn into structured notes you can search, quote, and share.
Even long sessions finish in minutes.
Cockatoo covers both transcription and document translation in one tool. Upload PDFs, Word files, or scanned images for translation.
Cockatoo publishes per-language results for the 36 languages in its V4-Pro accuracy report. Review the results and methodology to understand how the tested model performs before uploading your own recording.
| 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 reportCockatoo publishes accuracy scores on the standard public benchmark researchers use to compare transcription engines, plus real-world recordings with background noise and accents.
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Our users appreciate three things: the engine handles accents and background noise that other tools miss, transcripts arrive in seconds, and the interface requires no training or setup.
Customers who need accuracy for professional work, not just casual transcription, are the ones leaving the feedback.
“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.”
The engine identifies different speakers, adds punctuation, and capitalizes proper nouns. No manual tagging. You get a readable transcript, not a wall of lowercase text that needs an hour of cleanup.
Click into the browser editor to correct any names or technical terms the model missed. Then use the AI summary feature to condense a two-hour focus group into a one-page overview with key themes and participant quotes.
Think about the last time you tried the service. Could you walk me through what you did first?
I looked for the search box. I wasn't sure which category to choose, so I typed in the name of the item instead.
What made you decide to search rather than browse? There isn't a right or wrong answer here.
Paste a YouTube link, pull a file from Dropbox or Google Drive, or upload from your computer. Cockatoo accepts every common audio and video format and detects the spoken language automatically. No settings to configure before you start.
Upload a video file. Cockatoo extracts the audio, transcribes it, and returns the text with timestamps. Export the transcript as an SRT subtitle file to add captions to the video or import into your editing software.
The published benchmarks include real-world recordings with background noise, overlapping speech, and non-native accents. Review the methodology and selected playable audio examples to understand how the engine is tested.
Export the transcript as an SRT file and add it to your marketing video as burned-in captions or selectable subtitles. Searchable text makes your video content accessible to screen readers and discoverable by search engines.
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Illustrative subtitle previewUpload a document in any of these formats and translate it into another language. The same tool that transcribes your audio also handles your written research materials. Work in one place instead of switching between apps.
No sales call or onboarding meeting. Upload a file, get your transcript, and export it where you need it. Follow your organization’s requirements for participant consent and research data.
The transcript appears in your browser as soon as processing finishes. No desktop app to install, no plugins to configure, no account setup beyond an email address.
Default transcription modes are unlimited. The highest-accuracy modes have a weekly usage budget shown in Settings.
When the budget is hit, unlimited modes remain available. The model mirrors ChatGPT and Claude paid plans.
| 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 |
3 free transcripts. No credit card required.
Yes. The highest-accuracy modes carry a weekly usage limit shown in your Settings page.
The highest-accuracy modes carry a weekly usage limit shown in Settings; unlimited modes remain available when it is hit. Process as many hours as you need.
Most tools resell third-party API access and pay per hour transcribed. Unlimited becomes unsustainable as usage grows.
Cockatoo runs its own transcription engine. The economics support true unlimited without adding caps after launch.
