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Automated transcription for better research

Whether you’re doing qualitative, quantitative, UI, investment, or any other type of research interview, Sonix lets you spend less time transcribing and more time synthesizing the information.

Your free trial includes 30 minutes of free transcription.

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Before you can start making sense of the data, you need to start by transcribing the interviews and other recordings. Sonix makes it fast, easy, and affordable to convert large volumes of audio and video to text. As you are conducting primary research and recording phone calls, meetings, teleconferences, etc. it can pile up quickly.

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