Gladia

Gladia provides speech-to-text and audio-processing capabilities that can help researchers turn interviews, focus groups, lectures, or recordings into searchable text. Its API-oriented approach may be useful for teams building a transcription workflow into a research application or processing larger volumes of audio.

Automatic transcription can mishear accents, names, specialist vocabulary, and overlapping speech, and API costs or feature availability may depend on usage and plan. Audio can also contain identifiable or sensitive participant information, so uploading it requires more care than processing ordinary text.

Check consent forms, ethics approval, data-retention settings, and institutional requirements before sending recordings to a third-party service. Review transcripts against the audio before coding, quoting, or using them as research evidence.