Autrans
Use Case

Transcribe News Bulletins and Radio News Reads for Archives and Repurposing

Convert recorded news bulletins into searchable text for archives, web copy, and social clips, with speakers and timestamps intact.

Your station reads the 6pm bulletin, the newsroom needs it archived, and someone still has to pull three lines for the website and a 20-second clip for Instagram. Doing that by ear, bulletin after bulletin, eats a junior reporter's whole afternoon. Autrans transcribes the recorded bulletin with timestamps down to the word, so you can search for the exact line about the fuel subsidy story or the INEC update and jump straight to that moment in the audio. Newsreader and any inserted reporter voice notes or vox pops get separated automatically. Export the full text for your archive, or use the AI-generated topics and key quotes to build the web version and social captions without re-listening to the whole bulletin.

Benefits

  • Searchable text archive of every bulletin, not just audio files sitting on a drive
  • Speaker labels separate the newsreader from inserted vox pops or reporter clips
  • Word-level timestamps let you locate any story instantly for a repeat or clip
  • AI-extracted topics and key quotes speed up writing the web version
  • Export to TXT, DOCX, SRT, or VTT for print, web, or subtitled video use
  • 30-minute free tier lets a small station trial it before committing spend

How it works

  1. 1Upload the recorded bulletin audio after it airs
  2. 2Autrans transcribes it and labels the newsreader and any other voices
  3. 3Search the timestamped transcript to find any story by keyword
  4. 4Pull the AI summary, topics, or key quotes for web copy and social captions
  5. 5Export as TXT for the archive or SRT/VTT if you're subtitling a clip

Frequently asked questions

Can Autrans transcribe a bulletin that mixes English and a Nigerian language?

Yes, Autrans covers Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa, and Igbo, so a bulletin that switches languages for a local update or vox pop is still transcribed correctly.

Can it separate the newsreader from other voices in the bulletin?

Yes, speaker diarization labels each distinct voice, which is useful when a bulletin includes a reporter's voice note, a vox pop, or a brief interview clip inserted into the read.

Is this useful for building a searchable news archive?

Yes, once bulletins are transcribed you can search across them by keyword and jump to the exact timestamp, which is far faster than scrubbing through months of audio files manually.

Can I translate a bulletin transcript into another supported language?

Yes, Autrans offers one-tap translation across its 8 supported languages, so you can produce a Yoruba or Hausa text version of an English bulletin for a wider audience.

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