Trint Review

What Makes Trint Different

Most transcription services give you a wall of text and leave you to figure out the rest. Trint takes a different approach: every word in your transcript is linked to the exact moment in your audio or video file. Click any word, and playback jumps to that spot. For journalists pulling quotes from hour-long interviews, this alone saves hours of scrubbing through raw footage.

The platform was created by Jeff Kofman, a former war correspondent who was tired of the manual transcription grind. That editorial DNA shows in every feature, from the keyword search across your entire library to the highlight-and-clip tools that let you extract soundbites in seconds.

Accuracy and Language Support

Trint handles 30+ languages with automatic language detection. On clear audio with a single speaker, accuracy hovers around 85-90% for English, which is comparable to other mid-tier transcription platforms. The quality drops noticeably with heavy accents, overlapping speakers, or background noise. For professional use, you will likely need to clean up the output using the built-in editor.

The editor itself is where Trint shines. You can correct mistakes while audio plays alongside, and corrections happen in real time. If multiple team members are working on the same transcript, changes sync live, making it practical for newsroom deadlines.

Real-Time Collaboration

Trint supports Google Docs-style collaborative editing. Multiple editors can work on the same transcript simultaneously, leave comments, and tag colleagues. For media organizations with tight turnaround times, this beats emailing Word documents back and forth. Shared folders keep projects organized across teams, and permission controls let you manage who can edit versus who can only view.

AI Summaries and Search

The AI summarization feature condenses long recordings into key points and highlights. It is useful for quickly scanning the gist of a 90-minute interview before diving into the full transcript. You can also search across your entire transcript library by keyword, which is invaluable when you need to find a specific quote from months ago. The search indexes every word in every transcript you have ever created, so your archive becomes a searchable database over time.

Security and Compliance

Trint holds ISO 27001 certification, which matters for organizations handling sensitive source material, legal documents, or off-the-record interviews. Data encryption is applied both in transit and at rest. For enterprise deployments, Trint offers SSO and team management controls.

Integrations

The platform integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack, and Zoom. You can import recordings directly from cloud storage or pull in Zoom meeting recordings automatically. Export options include Word, text, SRT, VTT, and EDL files for video editing workflows. The integration list is narrower than competitors like Sonix or Happy Scribe, but covers the essentials for media production.

Export Formats for Video Teams

The EDL (Edit Decision List) export deserves special mention. Video production teams can mark highlights in the transcript and export them as an EDL that maps directly to their timeline in Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, or Avid. This single feature replaces manual timecode logging for journalists and editors who bridge written content and video production. SRT and VTT exports cover captioning needs for web video and broadcast.

Pricing Breakdown

The Basic plan costs $12/month for 3 hours of transcription and basic editing tools. The Professional plan runs $40/month with 10 hours and advanced features. Enterprise pricing is custom and includes unlimited transcription with priority support. Compared to Rev's $0.25/min AI tier or Sonix's $10/hour pay-as-you-go, Trint sits in the mid-to-premium range. The value justification is the editorial workflow, not raw transcription volume.

Where Trint Falls Short

The 3-hour cap on the Basic plan feels restrictive for anyone transcribing more than a few interviews per month. Speaker diarization works but is not as accurate as dedicated tools like AssemblyAI or Deepgram. There is no human transcription option, so if AI accuracy is not enough, you are stuck doing manual corrections yourself. The mobile experience exists but feels secondary to the web app.

Who Should Use Trint

Trint is built for editorial teams. If your workflow involves searching through interviews for quotes, clipping audio highlights, and collaborating with colleagues on deadline, this is your tool. Podcast producers, sports media teams covering multilingual press conferences, and academic researchers coding qualitative data will all find the timeline-synced editor worth the premium.

Our Verdict

Best for journalists, media teams, and podcast producers who need to search, verify, and clip transcripts on deadline. Skip if you just need cheap bulk transcription or if your budget cannot justify the per-hour cost for high-volume work.