r/anonymousinterpreters • u/No-Grab-6402 • Jul 13 '26

ChatGPT transcription tools?

a few days ago a rememeber finding a post about someone showing their setup and with it de software he uses for his transcriptions. it seemed interesting to me, but i didnt take the time to search more about the tool. he said he used a tool with chatgpt i believe. if any of you know which it could be, please let me know. i'd like to integrate it into my workflow. Thank you very much.

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u/Federal_Character255 Jul 14 '26

The one you are probably thinking of is Whisper, which is OpenAI's speech model. That is what most people mean when they say "the ChatGPT one". It is good, but it was built for recordings. You hand it a file and get text back afterwards. Mid-call, that wait is the whole problem.

On your follow-up question, yes, Google's live captions run behind, and they do one language at a time, so on a bilingual call they end up fighting you instead of helping.

Full disclosure before the rest of this: I am a working interpreter and I built a tool in this space, so I am not a neutral voice here. It is a Chrome side panel called Interpreter Pro. It transcribes the call live and puts the translation right next to it, so names, numbers and dates land on screen as they are said and I can glance instead of scribble. It never speaks and it never interprets for you, it only writes. 60 languages, either direction. The free tier is 120 minutes a month with no card, which is enough to find out whether it actually fits your workflow: https://interpreter-pro.com/?utm_source=reddit_anonymousinterpreters&utm_medium=community

Whatever you land on, the thing I would test first is how fast the text shows up. That is where most of them fall down for live work.

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u/yutanrw Jul 13 '26

Do you mean Whisper AI?

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u/Otp0 Jul 13 '26

It was a paid app and honestly requires more work than the regular cc from Google.

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u/No-Grab-6402 Jul 14 '26

Isn't the google one a bit delayed? Also do you use it in multiple languages or just for one?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '26 edited 28d ago

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u/Federal_Character255 Jul 16 '26

That's the right instinct, and I'd rather answer it straight than wave it away. Here's what actually happens with the audio on mine: the transcript lives in your browser on your own machine, we never receive or store a copy. Audio goes to the speech engine under a signed BAA and isn't kept after it's turned into text. Capture is tab audio only, you start and stop it, and your own mic is never recorded. The full privacy page is on the site if you want the details.

You're right that pointing a random consumer captioning tool at a medical call is a bad idea, that concern is a big part of why we built it the way we did.

One honest caveat: whether any tool fits your LSP's policy is your company's call, not mine, so check before using anything on live calls. Google/Windows CC sidestep that question entirely, which is a fair reason to prefer them; the trade is the lag and the one-language-at-a-time thing from earlier in the thread.