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AuTrans for Research and Consulting Firms

Focus groups, stakeholder interviews and consulting workshops transcribed in the languages your respondents actually use — fast enough to keep a fieldwork timeline.

A research director or an operations lead at an agency. They are buying against a client project, so speed and cost per project matter more than an annual licence.

What this looks like today

  • Focus group audio takes days to transcribe, and the client deadline does not move
  • Respondents answer in Pidgin or a local language while the moderator asks in English
  • Transcription is outsourced per project, so cost scales linearly with fieldwork and margin does not
  • Eight people in a room is a wall of text unless somebody manually labels who spoke
  • Findings are late because analysis cannot start until transcription finishes

What changes

  • Focus groups come back with speakers separated, so a moderator and eight respondents stay distinguishable
  • Mixed-language sessions are transcribed as they were spoken instead of being flattened into English
  • Analysis starts the same day fieldwork ends, rather than after a transcription queue clears
  • Summaries and topic maps surface recurring themes across sessions before anyone reads a full transcript
  • Transcripts export to DOCX or plain text for whatever coding or analysis tool you already use
  • Predictable cost per project instead of an open-ended per-minute transcription bill

Procurement, data and contracts

  • Invoiced monthly or annually, in Naira or USD, whichever your finance team prefers
  • Respondent audio is never used to train AI models — which is what your client's own data policy will ask about
  • Transcripts can be deleted at the end of a project, including derived data, so you can honour a client retention clause
  • View-only sharing lets a client read a transcript without an account
  • Allowances are set per account, so a heavy fieldwork month does not require a plan change

Frequently asked questions

Can it separate eight people in a focus group?

Speakers are separated automatically and you can rename them once — Moderator, Respondent 1, and so on — with the change applying throughout the transcript. A group discussion stays readable rather than becoming one undifferentiated block.

Our sessions mix English and a local language. Is that a problem?

No, that is the normal case here rather than an edge case. A session where the moderator asks in English and respondents answer in Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo is transcribed as one recording, in the languages actually spoken.

Our clients ask where respondent data goes.

Audio is never used to train AI models. Text corrections are only ever used where an account has opted in, and an agency account can have that off entirely. Transcripts stay private to your account, and everything for a project can be deleted on request including the derived data. If a client contract requires deletion within a set window, tell us the window.

Can we pay per project rather than commit to a plan?

Yes. Per-file pricing starts from $0.20 with no subscription, which suits agencies whose volume moves with the fieldwork calendar. If your volume is steady enough that an annual arrangement is cheaper, we will tell you.

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Tell us your volume and we'll quote

Roughly how many hours of audio a year, and in which languages. We price against that rather than a published tier. You can also start on the free plan first and run your own recordings through it before anyone raises a purchase order.

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