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Soniox App

The best real-time English meeting transcription app

Running English meetings? Soniox App captures every word with speaker detection, AI summaries, and instant action items. So your team can focus on the conversation, not the keyboard.

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Free to start, with free credits added every week.

Handle English meetings without missing a word

English is spoken by more than 1.5 billion people worldwide, across United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and beyond. For business teams, that means English showing up in client calls, internal syncs, interviews, and cross-border negotiations.

Traditional transcription tools struggle with real-world English in professional settings: fast speech, regional accents, industry jargon, and overlapping voices in group calls. Soniox App understands English as it is actually spoken in business: in context, instantly, and accurately enough to trust for follow-ups and decisions.

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1:1s and performance conversations

Soniox App transcribes and summarizes English conversations so nothing gets lost or forgotten, whether it is feedback, a promotion discussion, or a sensitive check-in.

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Customer and vendor calls

Keep records that accurately reflect what your English-speaking clients and partners said. Timestamped, searchable, and organized by speaker so commitments are never disputed.

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Job interviews and debriefs

Keep your full attention on the candidate during English interviews while Soniox App handles the documentation. Share clean, accurate transcripts with your hiring team instantly after.

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Project meetings and syncs

Summaries, next steps, and decisions from your English team meetings are captured as they happen. Everyone stays aligned without anyone playing secretary or chasing down follow-ups.

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Global multilingual teams

When your team mixes English with other languages, Soniox App translates in real-time across 60+ languages. No interpreter, no lag, and no misalignment across time zones or mother tongues.

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Sales calls and discovery sessions

Stay fully in discovery mode during English sales calls. Soniox App captures what prospects say and what they commit to, so you can review, quote, and follow up with precision.

Invite your English colleague to every meeting

Soniox App captures every English word so you can stay present, respond thoughtfully, and walk out of every meeting knowing exactly what was said and what comes next.

Stay present without missing a thing

Stop scrambling to take notes in English meetings. Soniox App accurately transcribes every word in real-time so you can stay focused and respond confidently, not catch up from incomplete notes later.

Spend less time on post-meeting admin

No more rewriting notes or trying to remember what happened. Get instant summaries, takeaways, and action items after every English meeting. Need something specific? Use custom prompts to pull out more insights.

Untangle who said what

Even in fast-paced, overlapping English conversations, Soniox App keeps everything organized. It labels speakers automatically so you can follow up on who asked, offered, agreed, or committed to what.

Understand every voice in the room

Soniox App translates English speech in real-time, even when people switch languages mid-sentence. No lag, no setup, no interpreters needed. Global teams can truly hear each other.

Recognizes context and key terms

From finance to product specs, Soniox App understands English business terminology, acronyms, and industry context for cleaner transcripts that actually make sense to anyone who reads them.

Record anywhere, securely

Whether you are in a English meeting room or on a noisy international call, Soniox App processes everything in real-time. No uploads, no storage, no data risk. Your conversations stay yours.

Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit

Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech:

Smart Scribe

Transcribe English meetings and conversations live

App feature Smart Scribe
See Smart Scribe

Translator

Translate English and 60+ other languages live

App feature Translator
See Translator

Voice Typing

Speak to type with your voice in any app

App feature Voice Typing
See Voice Typing

One app. Everything you do with voice in your language.

Get started free

Transcribe conversations in real time with Soniox.

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Free to start, with free credits added every week.

Learn everything Soniox can do

Need more details? The Soniox Help Center provides complete documentation for the app, including guides, videos, screenshots, and feature walkthroughs.

Learn how to use Smart Scribe, Translator, Voice Typing, and more.

Explore the Help Center

English transcription accuracy

Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed in-house by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on English transcription compared to 8 other providers.

ProviderWER (English)Accuracy
Soniox#16.5%93.5%
AssemblyAI9.3%90.7%
Speechmatics9.3%90.7%
Azure9.4%90.6%
Deepgram9.9%90.1%
OpenAI10.5%89.5%
ElevenLabs11.1%88.9%
AWS11.4%88.6%
Google18.2%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.

English language trivia

Hello - that's how you say hello in English.

History and background

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    English is the most widely spoken language in the world when including both native and non-native speakers.

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    The Great Vowel Shift between 1400 and 1700 dramatically changed English pronunciation while spelling stayed largely fixed.

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    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.

Dialects and varieties

American EnglishBritish EnglishAustralian EnglishIndian EnglishSouth African English

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United StatesUnited KingdomCanadaAustraliaNew ZealandIrelandSouth AfricaIndia

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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.

Frequently asked questions about real-time English meeting transcription

Does Soniox App work for English meetings across different countries and offices?arrow_downward
Yes. English is spoken in business contexts across United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and 9 more countries. Every region brings its own professional vocabulary, accent, and communication pace. Soniox App is trained on real-world English speech from multiple regions, so it works whether your team is in one country or spread across several.
Is English hard to transcribe accurately in a business setting?arrow_downward
It can be. English has 1.5 billion speakers across 15 countries, and professional English sounds different depending on the region and industry. Different accents, local business vocabulary, and varying meeting styles all create challenges. Most transcription apps are trained on a single standardized dialect and break down with real meeting audio. Soniox App is trained on real-world English speech from multiple regions, so it adapts automatically to wherever your team is based.
Does Soniox App work on live English calls like Zoom or Teams?arrow_downward
Yes. Just run Soniox App on your phone or device during the call. It transcribes English audio in real time with no bot joining the call and no plugins required.
Can it tell different English speakers apart in a group meeting?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox App automatically detects and labels different speakers so your transcript shows who said what, even in fast-moving, multi-person English conversations.
How does Soniox App handle English meetings that mix multiple languages?arrow_downward
Soniox App detects language automatically and translates in real-time across 60+ languages, including mid-sentence switches between English and other languages. No setup or manual selection needed.
Can I get a summary and action items after a English meeting?arrow_downward
Yes. After every session, Soniox App generates an AI-powered summary with key takeaways and action items. You can also use custom prompts to extract specific insights from the English transcript.
Is it accurate with English business terminology and industry jargon?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox App understands English business language across industries including finance, legal, product, and engineering. Acronyms, proper nouns, and technical terms are captured correctly, not garbled.
Is my English meeting data private and secure?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox App never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then discarded. Especially important for sensitive business conversations.
How much does it cost?arrow_downward
Soniox App is free to try with credits every week. For unlimited meeting transcription, Soniox Pro is available. Learn more on our pricing page.