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If you are collaborating on a project with other people, you can use most cloud services to share your transcript and media. InqScribe will automatically look for media in the same folder as your transcript. You can then share that folder with others and they will be able to open your InqScribe document and your…
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For more than two decades, researchers, filmmakers, journalists, and transcriptionists have relied on InqScribe to take notes, log footage, and create transcripts by hand—quickly and accurately. With InqScribe 3, we’re keeping everything people already love about InqScribe… and adding something big: Automatic AI transcription, performed privately on your computer. So whether you’re discovering InqScribe for…
InqScribe is pleased to sponsor the 2026 WCQR – World Conference on Qualitative Research. We originally built InqScribe to help with our own qualitative research projects, so the needs and workflows of researchers are baked into our design. The core idea is simple: a text-first editor with a built-in media player. As you type free-form…
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By Angelique Stone, freelance transcriber from Cape Point, South Africa Here in South Africa, as elsewhere in the world, many have suffered a severe loss from the Coronavirus crisis. Aside from hardships to health and family life, businesses have had to close and the unemployment rate has increased to historic levels. Unfortunately, like many others,…
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If you live in a small community and speak a regional language, it’s difficult for your story to get out. Aliana uses InqScribe to translate the experiences of Nepali burn victims to a wider audience. By: Aliana Monodee, a documentary filmmaker with Tribhuvan University In Nepal, many women suffer discrimination based on caste and gender. This…
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Amidst a busy travel schedule around remote regions of Kenya, Hannah & Jamie rely on InqScribe to capture inspiring stories of wildlife conservation. By: Hannah Pollock and Jamie Unwin, filmmakers and founders of Stand Up For Nature We believe visual media and films are an incredible tool for education and sharing peoples stories, but how do you reach…
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By: Irene Herrera, director of the upcoming documentary “No Elderly Left Behind” As a documentary filmmaker, I need transcripts and lots of them. I am currently producing a documentary for NHK World on elderly isolation in Japan called “No Elderly Left Behind.” I travel throughout Asia and work in many languages, so I need a…
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By now, you’re surely heard news of the “refugee crisis” affecting countries across the globe. Did you know that InqScribe is used in the field to document the stories of these refugees? By: Karl Schembri, Regional Media Advisor in the Middle East for the Norwegian Refugee Council As a humanitarian NGO, we respond to crises around the world. My…
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Did you know you can use InqScribe to transcribe just about any language? Yes, even the language of spider monkeys. By: Sandra E. Smith Aguilar, PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Regional Development (CIIDIR) Campus Oaxaca, of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. My research focuses on understanding the relationship between spider…
Filmmakers like InqScribe for a multitude of reasons. In our latest guest blog, Charlie Samuels talks about how he’s using InqScribe on his first film project. I am working on a film documentary about my skateboard team. Even if I make many films after this, Virgin Blacktop will be my opus. I’ve been working on…