What is pay as you go transcription?
Pay as you go transcription means you convert audio or video to text without committing to a fixed monthly subscription. You buy the hours you need and pay only for what you transcribe. This contrasts with subscription-based tools that charge a flat monthly fee regardless of how many files you actually transcribe.
For professionals with irregular workloads, such as journalists, researchers or content creators, pay as you go is often the more cost-effective model. Vook.ai also offers one free transcription per day, up to 30 minutes, with no credit card, so you can test the quality before you buy anything.
How pay as you go pricing works on Vook.ai
Vook.ai sells transcription time as a 10-hour pass, with no subscription and no commitment. Your hours never expire, and each file is debited by the second of audio, never rounded up to the next minute. An account is needed to buy a pass, and the pricing section on this page shows the current price.
- Free tier. You get 1 transcription per day, up to 30 minutes, with no credit card.
- Hour pass. Your 10 hours never expire and are debited by the second.
- Subscriptions. Pro includes 10 hours a month, Unlimited and Business remove the hour cap, and you can cancel anytime.
Accuracy: what to expect from AI transcription
Vook.ai reaches up to 99% accuracy on clear audio in supported languages. Processing takes under one minute per hour of audio, so a two-hour recording is typically ready in less than two minutes. The service supports more than 100 languages and detects the language automatically.
Accuracy is lower on overlapping speakers, low-quality phone recordings and strong regional accents. The built-in editor lets you fix the text, rename speakers and reassign a passage to the right speaker before exporting, so even imperfect audio produces a usable transcript.
Privacy and data security
Vook.ai is a European service and stores your audio files and transcripts in France. Your files are encrypted with AES-256 at rest and stay in your account until you delete them. Your audio is never used to train AI models, never sold to third parties and never analyzed for advertising.
- France-based storage. Your audio files and transcripts are stored in France (EU).
- AES-256 encryption. Applied at rest to your audio files and transcripts.
- You control retention. Your files stay in your account until you delete them; deleting a transcript also removes its audio.
- GDPR compliant. A DPA is available on request, and your right to deletion is respected.
Speaker diarization and timestamps
Every transcript includes automatic speaker diarization, meaning the AI identifies and labels the different speakers in your recording. Timestamps are added throughout so you can locate any moment in the original audio quickly. Punctuation and capitalization are applied automatically, producing a clean, readable document from the start.
In the built-in editor you can rename speaker labels, create a new speaker or reassign a passage to the right speaker before sharing the transcript. All of this carries through to your exported file, whether you choose PDF, DOCX, Markdown, SRT or HTML.
When to go beyond the free tier
The free tier covers one file per day, and its transcript shows the first 30 minutes. That is enough to test Vook.ai on occasional recordings. If you need full transcripts of longer files, or more than one file per day, a 10-hour pass covers you with no subscription.
If you transcribe every week, a subscription may cost less: Pro includes 10 hours a month, while Unlimited and Business remove the hour cap and add unlimited Vook Chat to summarize transcripts and extract key quotes. Subscriptions can be cancelled anytime, and the same storage in France, AES-256 encryption and no-training policy apply to every option.
