Interview transcription software

Interview transcription software built for recruiters.

Record candidate interviews locally with no bot in the call, get speaker-labeled transcripts minutes after you stop, and turn every conversation into searchable AI notes and a scorecard your whole hiring team can use.

How it works

From candidate call to searchable transcript.

Three steps. The desktop recorder captures the call, the workspace transcribes it and does the rest once the interview ends.

Step 1

Record the interview locally

Open the desktop app and hit record. Audio is captured on your machine, so no bot joins the Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or phone call.

Step 2

Get a speaker-labeled transcript

When the call ends, the recording uploads and is transcribed with each speaker labeled and every line timestamped.

Step 3

Turn it into notes and a scorecard

The transcript becomes a clean summary and a scorecard mapped to the role, searchable across every interview your team runs.

Why recruiters use it

Transcription that turns into hiring signal.

Generic transcription stops at text. Sonarnote feeds the transcript straight into the notes, scorecards, and search your team actually works from.

Speaker-labeled transcripts

Diarized by speaker with word-level accuracy and jump-to-quote timestamps, so you know exactly who said what.

AI notes mapped to the role

Every interview is summarized into the facts that matter for the job, so your team reads signal instead of raw transcript.

Search every interview

Full-text search across words, speakers, and candidates. A detail from a call three weeks ago is one query away.

No bot in the call

Recording happens at the OS level, so nothing joins the meeting and no calendar access is required. The candidate sees only you.

Private by default

Recorded locally, transcribed over an encrypted channel, and never used to train models. EU-based and GDPR-ready.

Works on every platform

Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, or a phone call on speaker. If you can hear it, Sonarnote can transcribe it.

The signal in every interview,
not just the ones you remember.

~2 min
From "stop recording" to a finished, diarized transcript landing in your dashboard.
98.4%
Word-level accuracy on US-English interviews, benchmarked against human-transcribed audio.
14k+
Interviews recorded weekly across in-house, agency and embedded recruiting teams.
0
Bots in your meeting. Sonarnote captures system audio locally, no calendar OAuth, no invites.
FAQ

Interview transcription, answered.

What is interview transcription software?

Interview transcription software records a candidate interview and converts the audio into text. Sonarnote goes further: it captures the call locally without a bot, labels each speaker, timestamps every line, and turns the transcript into searchable notes and a scorecard for your hiring team.

How accurate is the transcription?

Transcripts are diarized by speaker with word-level accuracy and timestamps you can jump to. For recruiting calls you also get a job-aware keyterms boost, which improves accuracy on role-specific names, tools, and terminology.

Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams?

Yes. Because recording happens at the operating system level, it is platform-agnostic. The same flow works for Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddles, and phone calls played through your speakers, with no bot joining the meeting.

Is the interview data private?

Audio is recorded locally on your machine, uploaded over an encrypted channel, and never used to train models. Sonarnote is EU-based and GDPR-ready. You should still disclose recording to the candidate as your jurisdiction requires.

How is this different from generic transcription tools?

General transcription tools stop at text. Sonarnote is built for recruiters: transcripts feed directly into AI interview notes, role-mapped scorecards, and field extraction for things like salary expectation and notice period, so the transcript becomes a hiring decision instead of a wall of text.

Transcribe your next interview without a bot.

Download the desktop recorder, hit record before your next candidate call, and your team gets a speaker-labeled transcript and notes as soon as it ends.