Turn hours of in-depth interviews, focus groups and fieldwork into searchable text with timestamps. Ready for qualitative coding, paper citation, and ethics committee review.
In qualitative research the raw data is audio: 60-90-minute in-depth interviews, focus groups with 5-8 participants, field observations. Manually transcribing each hour consumes 4-6 hours of a junior researcher; professional human transcription costs between 60 and 200 EUR per hour. VOCAP transcribes the same hour for 1-2 EUR with enough accuracy to code, cite and export to NVivo, Atlas.ti or MAXQDA. No subscription, paragraph-level timestamps, and reinforced GDPR compliance for sensitive participant data.
The traditional ratio is 4-6 hours of transcription per hour of audio. In a study with 15 hour-long interviews that is 60-90 hours of a researcher who could be coding or writing.
Human services charge between 60 and 200 EUR/hour (more for bilingual or technical content). A study with 20 audio hours = 1,200-4,000 EUR just in transcription, money rarely in the grant.
Without a transcript you cannot search keywords, count co-occurrences or export to qualitative analysis software. Working from audio alone is inefficient and makes inter-rater triangulation hard.
Ethics committees and Institutional Review Boards demand control over where data is stored. Uploading identifying audio to US services is usually outside approved terms.
Upload 45-90-minute semi-structured interviews and get text with paragraph-level timestamps. Ready for inductive coding or applying an existing codebook.
Audios with 5-8 voices are transcribed with speaker-turn segmentation. You label each participant on review and export with anonymized identifiers.
Turn research sessions into searchable text to locate quotes, build highlight reels and write reports in Dovetail, Notion or Confluence.
Dictate field notes as you leave the site or upload contextual recordings and get structured text added to the study corpus.
Locate the exact minute of every quote with a timestamp and verify it against the original audio before including it in the manuscript. Peer review demands it; VOCAP makes it trivial.
Each block carries minute and second markers so you jump back to the original audio in one click to verify intonation, emphasis or silences.
Claude generates an executive summary, lists emerging themes and pulls representative quotes. Useful as a first read before coding.
Download the text in an editable format and drag it into your qualitative analysis software. No intermediate conversions.
Cross-country comparative research: transcribe interviews in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and many more with the same flow.
The file is deleted from the server as soon as processing ends. Only encrypted text remains in your account. Fits most ethics-committee protocols.
European company (Spain), EU servers, Article 28 GDPR Data Processing Agreement available if your university or department requires it.
MP3, MP4, M4A or WAV from recorder, phone or Zoom/Teams. No practical duration limit: a 90-minute interview is processed without splitting.
A 60-minute interview is ready in 3-5 minutes. A 90-minute focus group in 5-8 minutes. You get the summary and full text together.
Review the text with timestamps, export to TXT or PDF and import into NVivo, Atlas.ti, MAXQDA, Dovetail or whichever qualitative tool you use.
Research with people requires informed consent and demonstrable control over the data. VOCAP is an EU-based company (Spain), transmits audio over HTTPS, processes and automatically deletes it; only encrypted text remains in your account. We sign Data Processing Agreements (Art. 28 GDPR) when the university, hospital or institution requires it for the ethics protocol. We do not use audios or transcripts to train AI models. We recommend anonymizing identifiers in the audio before upload (proper names, places, distinctive dates) when the protocol requires it, the same way you would with any human service. AI transcription is accepted by most committees provided it is declared in the methods section and confidentiality with participants is respected.
In interviews with a good microphone and a single clear speaker, accuracy approaches 96-98%. In focus groups with multiple voices, overlaps or diverse accents it is typically 88-93%. For thematic coding (not fine-grained discourse analysis) that is more than enough: the coder always reads whole paragraphs, not individual words. For verbatim quotes in a paper, verify the paragraph against the audio.
Most committees accept it provided: a) the protocol declares automatic transcription will be used, b) the provider is EU-based and signs a DPA, c) audio is not retained indefinitely. VOCAP meets all three. For especially restrictive protocols (clinical data, minors) check with your IRB first.
Same logic as any service: anonymize the audio if your protocol requires it (omit proper names at recording or edit the audio before upload). VOCAP does not apply speaker identification: it only separates speaker turns, it does not identify who is who.
Yes. AI transcription is accepted by most journals as long as it is declared in the methods section ("Interviews were transcribed using an automatic transcription service and manually reviewed"). Academic standards require human review of any quotes included in the manuscript; VOCAP produces the first transcript in minutes and you only review the paragraphs you cite.
Yes. Export the text as TXT or PDF and import. NVivo and MAXQDA accept plain text directly. For Dovetail/Notion/Confluence paste the text and keep the timestamps as audio references.
For a study with 15 hour-long interviews (15h total) the 30h pack (29.99 EUR) more than covers it and lasts across several more studies. Compared with professional human transcription (60-200 EUR/h, total 900-3,000 EUR) the saving is 1-2 orders of magnitude.
VOCAP transcribes in 90+ languages with the same flow and the same per-hour price. Useful for multi-country studies, transnational ethnography, or work with multilingual populations.
30 free audio minutes on signup. No card. No subscription. Enough to transcribe a first pilot interview and validate the flow.
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