Amberscript vs. Fireflies.ai

Amberscript is great for transcribing individual audio (or video) files that reside on your computer. The ability to view and edit the text of the text file (to correct or remove data that you don't want to be shared) before the output is a great option. I feel it may be limited in the ability to transcribe live audio records such as phone calls or meetings, where we would find it very useful to have immediate access to a transcript (for coaching or sharing purposes). I feel the needs are more designed as a solution for pre-existing audio/video files versus working in real-time.

Incentivized

It does the job really well. They were one of the first on the scene and have continually improved overtime. It's crazy affordable, I'm always surprised when I see the $5 monthly charge compared to other apps I pay more for and use a lot less.

Incentivized

• Automated Speech to text transcribing
• Video and Audio file to text data file conversion

Incentivized

• Helps in transcription & take notes.
• Listening to the meeting is very easy.
• Can be integrated into other various software.
• They also provide the option to download the meeting and the option to like & dislike the recording.
• And I love their soundbites features which I can use to highlight the specific part of the recording for future use.

Incentivized

• There does not appear to be a way to transcribe live audio (such as a live meeting or live phone call)

Incentivized

• Would love to see the formatting of the summary when I download it look better. The headers are usually far too large and I end up reformatting each summary into my preferred format, layout font, etc. If there’s a way for me to preload, what my preferences are, that would be fantastic so I get a fully complete document without having to do much manipulation after the fact.
• I have my settings, correct but Fireflies.ai doesn’t always attend every Zoom meeting or every teams meeting. It does about 90% of the time, but there is a 10% failure rate which causes us a huge problem for me.

Incentivized

It is a very convenient tool. Fireflies join calls automatically; you shouldn't think about it each time. It has a good integration with Slack and also sends notifications automatically. It makes good and accurate summary bullets. Also, you can check all the conversation transcription after the meeting and search specific speaker or keywords.

Incentivized

I feel that Amazon Transcribe was much more feature-rich, allowing for a much more real-time solution, whereas Amberscript is great for transcribing existing call recordings (or video files) to a rich text file. Amazon Transcribe will do both, while Amberscript only does the latter. For our business, this was a significant feature loss for Amberscript.

Incentivized

Fireflies.ai never gave us a chance to switch, I have come across Read AI as one of the other tool used widely by other people for the same reason of meeting summary, but we are very happy with Fireflies.ai and have very minimual reasons to stop using thsi tool and change it.

Incentivized

• Having an automated speech-to-text conversion allows us to reduce human hours, which would normally take notes or have to review long audio files.
• Being able to transcribe multiple call recordings into a searchable text format allows for coaching of issues in a much more efficient format than an audio recording.

Incentivized

• The cost is very affordable and getting ROI for it happens within the first meeting.
• My clients appreciate the quick turn on having an action plan in place for them.
• I like having a catalog of meetings I can reference to see the client improvements.