Live captions for courtroom accessibility in English
Soniox App transcribes and summarizes conversations in real time and is built for lawyers who need accurate records without manual note-taking. Speaker labels, action items, and searchable transcripts across 60+ languages. Works with English and 60+ other languages.
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Every detail, captured automatically in English
Conversations move fast and details slip through the cracks. Soniox App makes sure nothing gets lost. Get seamless English transcriptions today.
Share with your team
Send English transcripts and summaries to colleagues instantly. Everyone stays aligned without extra follow-up.
Complete conversation archive
Every English conversation is saved and organized. Go back to any past discussion and pick up where you left off.
Action items extracted
Smart Scribe pulls out action items and decisions from English conversations so nothing falls through the cracks.
Hours saved per week
Stop spending time writing and cleaning up English notes. Smart Scribe does it in real time while you talk.
Built for real conversations in English
Smart Scribe handles the complexity of real speech so you can focus on the conversation. Handles English across varieties like American English and British English.
Speaker identification
Smart Scribe detects and separates English speakers so you always know who said what.
60+ languages
Transcribe English conversations and 60+ other languages, including mixed-language speech.
Clean, readable output
English transcripts are formatted with paragraphs and speaker turns so they read like a document, not a wall of text.
Built for long sessions
Smart Scribe handles extended English meetings, interviews, and lectures without losing context or accuracy.
English at a glance
Key facts about English.
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
English is spoken in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana, and Malta. Soniox App is trained on real-world English speech from multiple regions and accents.
English transcription accuracy
Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed inhouse by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on English transcription compared to 8 other providers.
| Provider | WER (English) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 6.5% | 93.5% |
| AssemblyAI | 9.3% | 90.7% |
| Speechmatics | 9.3% | 90.7% |
| Azure | 9.4% | 90.6% |
| Deepgram | 9.9% | 90.1% |
| OpenAI | 10.5% | 89.5% |
| ElevenLabs | 11.1% | 88.9% |
| AWS | 11.4% | 88.6% |
| 18.2% | 81.8% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms AssemblyAI, Speechmatics, Azure, Deepgram, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, AWS, and Google on English transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with English and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in English and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.
Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit
Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.
One app. Everything you do with voice in English.
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Built for any use case
From clinical documentation to creative workflows, Soniox App is built for the situations where accurate transcription and translation matter most.
Meeting transcription
Capture every decision and action item from meetings automatically.
Lecture transcription
Record complete lecture transcripts for study and accessibility.
Medical dictation
Document clinical encounters hands-free with professional accuracy.
Hearing accessibility
Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.
Travel translator
Communicate across language barriers with real-time spoken translation.
Voice notes
Capture ideas and thoughts hands-free and turn them into searchable text.
Private by default
Soniox never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then gone.
English language trivia
Hello - that's how you say hello in English.
History and background
- history
English is the most widely spoken language in the world when including both native and non-native speakers.
- history
The Great Vowel Shift between 1400 and 1700 dramatically changed English pronunciation while spelling stayed largely fixed.
- history
English vocabulary draws from Germanic roots, Norman French, Latin, and Greek, giving it an unusually large lexicon.
Distinctive features
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English has almost no grammatical gender and minimal verb inflection compared to other Indo-European languages.
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English spelling is notoriously irregular due to borrowings from many source languages.
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English uses word order (Subject-Verb-Object) as the primary grammatical mechanism rather than inflection.