Plenty of court reporters run their audio through TurboScribe at $10 a month. We ran the same 49-minute Court of Claims hearing through TurboScribe and through Stenobox, and put the two side by side, word for word. Same audio. Nothing corrected on either side.
TurboScribe's text is the file its free plan returned in October 2026, as downloaded. Stenobox's is the transcript as delivered, with the case caption attached the way a reporter attaches it to a job. Every quote on this page is copied from one of those two files.
The judge's name, the city, who said what, the legal terms. On the left, TurboScribe's file as downloaded; on the right, Stenobox's transcript as delivered. The highlighted words are the ones a reporter fixes by hand, against the audio.
Counted in the first 30 minutes of its file, 4,138 words. None of it is marked; you find it by listening to all of it.
speaker tags to turn into names and indent
paragraphs broken inside one speaker's turn, to rejoin
passages under the wrong speaker
wrong names and terms
garbled phrases only the audio can fix
sentence ends to double-space
| To make it certifiable, you must… | TurboScribe | Stenobox |
|---|---|---|
| Know who is speaking | Speaker 1, 2, 3, 4 — never a name | THE COURT and each attorney, named from your caption |
| Keep each turn whole | A new paragraph every few sentences; some turns fused | One turn, one label |
| Spell the names and terms | Fixed by hand, every one | Follows the caption you attach |
| Put it on the court's page | Running text: no caption, line numbers, page numbers or certificate | 25 numbered lines, labels at the indent, caption, index and certificate |
| Know where to listen | All of it | The flagged spots, each a click from the audio |
| Your actual job | Rebuild, then verify | Just verify |
Our estimate for this 49-minute hearing, built from the counts above. The TurboScribe column is not a timed run; the Stenobox column scales a timed 28-minute review of a 66-minute hearing.
| TurboScribe · $10 | Stenobox · $129 | |
|---|---|---|
| Listen and fix | 75–100 min, all 49 minutes, stopping to fix | 20–25 min, only the flagged spots, each a click from the audio |
| Labels, joins, indents, the page | 20–30 min | Done |
| Spellings and capitals | about 10 min | Done, from your caption |
| Caption, index, certificate | about 15 min | Done, from your template |
| This 49-minute hearing | about 2 to 2½ hours | about half an hour |
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Try Stenobox free →How we compared: TurboScribe's free plan, October 20, 2026, the file as downloaded (its paid plan removes the 30-minute limit). Stenobox, October 22, 2026, the transcript as delivered with the case caption attached, unedited. The counts above are from reading the first 30 minutes of TurboScribe's file; the times are our estimate from those counts, not a timed run, except Stenobox's, which scales a timed 28-minute review of a 66-minute hearing. Prices as published by each company that month; check the current ones. TurboScribe is a trademark of its owner; Stenobox is not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Every transcript requires professional review before delivery or certification.