Automatic transcription has one failure that matters more for a book than for anything else: when the audio is unclear it does not leave a gap, it invents a plausible word. This produces clean verbatim with that guarded against — every word you said, filler removed, nothing invented.
Tool
Speech to text for the parts of your book you'd rather say
What it does, precisely
- Transcribes recordings and uploads into text you own
- Guards against hallucinated content rather than filling silence with a guess
- Records provenance for every passage — which model, how long, what language
- Keeps your exact words as the source of truth, never silently overwritten
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It reads episode titles and descriptions unless you supply a transcript. It will not pretend to have heard audio it did not process.
What it does
Record in the app or upload audio you already have. What comes back is marked Exact Text — your words, stored verbatim. Anything the system suggests changing sits beside it until you accept it.
However you write
For the parts of your book that exist as audio. If you're typing the rest, that's fine — typed chapters and transcribed chapters sit side by side in the same manuscript and are treated identically.
The mistake: trusting a transcript you haven't read
Automatic transcription has one failure that matters far more for a book than for anything else. When the audio is unclear, it does not leave a gap. It invents a plausible word and presents it with the same confidence as the rest. In a meeting note that's an annoyance. In a memoir it is a sentence your mother never said, sitting inside quotation marks, in a book her grandchildren will read as fact.
Read the transcript against the audio for anything that will be quoted. It takes minutes and it is the single highest-value hour in the whole process.
What Your Book Pro does here
Your Book Pro is a writing studio for people making a real book. You bring the words — typed straight in, dictated if you'd rather talk, or uploaded from whatever you have already written elsewhere — and it does the work that normally costs thousands: structure, editorial feedback, proofreading, a cover, and a publisher-ready export.
One rule shapes all of it. Your words are stored as Exact Text and are never overwritten. Every suggestion arrives attached to a place in your manuscript, and nothing changes until you accept it. Where most AI tools quietly rewrite you into their own register, this one shows you the change and waits. Even the automatic clean-up pass is held to a length check — if it drifts too far from what you actually wrote, the edit is thrown away and you keep your own words. The editorial standards behind the feedback are our own, written for books and specific to your genre, not a general chatbot answering in a good mood.
Transcription is included at every level: 15 minutes free, up to 10 hours on Pro, 50 on Super Pro. What comes back is Exact Text — stored verbatim, never silently altered.
Heavy accents, several people talking over each other and dense legal or medical terminology still favour a human transcriptionist.
Where it stops
Heavy accents, several people talking over each other, poor recordings, and dense legal or medical terminology all still favour a human transcriptionist. If the recording is precious and difficult, pay a person.
What this replaces
| What you are buying | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Human transcription service | £60–£150 per audio-hour | Usually priced per audio-hour, with human transcription several times the automated rate. See /costs/transcription for the full breakdown and sources. |
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