From footage to
transcript in minutes
Turn hundreds of hours of audio and video into editable, searchable transcriptions. Generate captions, subtitles, EDLs, and more — and collaborate with your team faster than ever.
Vatican Media has been using LSTN for six months now and the productivity gains have been remarkable.
Our journalists used to spend hours transcribing interviews by hand. Now it takes minutes.
The collaboration features let the whole team work on the same transcript simultaneously...
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Generic tools fall short.
LSTN was built differently.
One-size-fits-all transcription services weren't designed for the volume, formats, or workflows of professional media and research. LSTN was.
Built for heavy media files
Transcode and process large video and audio files without size limits. LSTN handles the demanding workflows of professional production environments.
Parallel execution
Process multiple files simultaneously. Upload an entire shoot and get all your transcripts back at once — not one at a time.
NLE-ready exports
Export directly to EDL, SRT, VTT, and other formats your editing suite expects. Works with Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, and DaVinci Resolve.
Multi-speaker identification
Automatically detect and label different speakers in interviews, roundtables, and focus groups. Know who said what without manual annotation.
API support
Integrate transcription into your own pipeline. The LSTN API lets engineering teams automate workflows at scale, from ingest to archive.
Team collaboration
Review, correct, and annotate transcriptions together in real time. Assign sections, leave comments, and track changes — just like a shared doc.
How it works
From raw footage to paper edit in days — not weeks.
Step 01
Raw footage into accurate transcripts
Drag and drop any video or audio file — any format, any language. LSTN processes it in minutes and returns a timestamped, speaker-labelled transcript ready to work with. What used to take a full day now takes a coffee break.
Step 02
Build stories with ease
Open the LSTN editor and your transcript becomes your editing assistant. Click any word to jump to that exact moment in the timeline. Search across hours of footage in seconds, pull quotes, and build your paper edit without touching a timeline.
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Export straight into your pipeline
Send your transcript wherever it needs to go. Export as EDL, SRT, VTT, Word, or PDF. Works directly with Premiere, Final Cut, Avid, and DaVinci Resolve — no conversion, no copy-paste.
Looking for key moments?
That's what AI's for.
Forget scrubbing through hours of footage. Ask LSTN's AI to surface the best quotes, identify recurring themes, or find a specific moment — across a single file or your entire project at once.
Social housing was discussed by Anna and Mike in 3 segments:
A future for local families
Anna “Social housing gave families here a real future.”
Who actually pays for it?
Mike “My question is simple — who funds the social housing?”
More housing, not less
Anna “We agreed — the town needs more social housing.”
Made for the teams who can't afford to be slow
Whether you're cutting a documentary, filing a story, or analyzing field research — LSTN is the transcription layer your workflow has been missing.
Reclaim hours from your post-production workflow
Documentary teams shoot far more than they edit. LSTN helps you transcribe days of rushes, search across all your footage by keyword, and generate the paper edit your director needs — without a transcription assistant.
Get from recording to publish in record time
Newsrooms run on deadlines. LSTN transcribes interviews and press conferences as soon as they're uploaded, so journalists can pull quotes, verify accuracy, and turn content around faster than any manual approach.
Make sense of hundreds of hours of qualitative data
Research teams collect far more audio and video than they can realistically review. LSTN turns focus groups, in-depth interviews, and field recordings into searchable, structured transcripts ready for analysis.
Case study
"Using LSTN has resulted in a huge productivity boost for our journalists."
Vatican Media's journalists use LSTN to transcribe audio and video from recorded interviews rather than spending hours doing so manually. What previously took a full day now takes minutes — leaving journalists free to do the work that matters.
Your footage is sensitive.
We treat it that way.
Media companies and researchers trust LSTN with confidential interviews, unreleased footage, and proprietary research. We take that responsibility seriously.
Your media stays yours
We never train AI models on your files or transcripts. Your footage remains completely private and is used only to generate your transcription.
Automatic file deletion
Source files are deleted from our servers once transcription is complete. You keep the transcript — we don't keep your media.
EU data residency
Your data is processed and stored in the European Union. LSTN is GDPR-compliant by design — not as an afterthought.
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