Happy Scribe

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Overview

Happy Scribe turns speech into text, makes automatic subtitles and translates them. The pricing page also declares AI meeting notes (AI Notetaker) with recording in Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, hardcoding subtitles into video, a subtitle converter and AI Chat over uploaded files. As a separate paid service there is human proofreading.

On languages the service says two different things about itself, and we will not smooth that over. The languages page is headed "AI Products and Services in 150+ Languages" and gives a table broken down by service — AI Notetaker, AI Transcription, AI Subtitles, Human Transcription, Human Subtitles. All six languages of our catalogue are named in it directly: Russian, English (Global), Spanish (Global), Chinese and Cantonese, Hindi, Arabic.

But the numbers diverge: the free plan card promises "AI speech-to-text for 60+ languages and dialects", the site heading and the languages page say 150+, AI translation "80+ languages", human proofreading "65+ languages". A list of translation languages does not exist, only the round number.

Which platforms it works with

Export formats are split by plan. DOCX, TXT, SRT and MP4 are available everywhere, and on the free plan the MP4 carries a watermark. From Pro onwards VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML, EDL and others are added; PDF and HTML are named too.

Integrations: YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Zapier, an API and an MCP server; HubSpot is marked as coming soon. Meeting recording is declared in Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. There is a mobile app.

Pricing

Prices in euros; the pricing page has a monthly/annual switch, and we give both figures as shown.

Basic — 17 EUR a month; with annual payment 8.50 EUR a month (Save 50%).

Pro — 29 EUR a month; with annual payment 19 EUR a month (Save 34%).

Business — 89 EUR a month; with annual payment 59 EUR a month (Save 34%).

Enterprise — on request.

Beyond the package, minutes are bought at 0.20 EUR each. Human proofreading — from 1.75 EUR a minute, on Business from 1.66 EUR with a 5% discount.

The cheapest step is 8.50 EUR a month on annual Basic; paying monthly, the minimum is 17 EUR.

What is free

The Free plan costs 0 EUR. Only meeting recording is called unlimited — with a cap of 45 minutes per recording. The transcription itself is issued once: verbatim, "10-minute free trial of AI Transcription, Subtitling and Translation". That is a trial, not a standing monthly quota, and the distinction matters.

Free also includes limited recording history, analysis of three files a month through AI Chat, and export to DOCX, TXT, SRT and MP4 with a watermark.

Restrictions

The limits are counted in minutes.

Free — 45 minutes per recording, a trial 10 minutes of transcription, subtitles and translation, 3 files a month in AI Chat.

Basic — 120 minutes of transcription, subtitles and translation a month (1440 a year with annual payment), 90 minutes per recording, 10 files in AI Chat, 1 seat.

Pro — 600 minutes a month (7200 a year), no cap on recording length, unlimited AI Chat, 3 seats.

Business — 6000 minutes a month, no cap on recording length, 5 seats.

Package minutes renew monthly or annually, while purchased credits roll over.

Rights to the output

The rights stay with the user, and this is extended directly to what the service produces. The terms verbatim: "you retain all rights, title, and interest in and to Your Content. This includes any content generated by the Services — such as transcripts, captions, translations, meeting recordings, or the notes and summaries produced by the Meeting Notetaker".

There is a reservation easy to confuse with a restriction on transcripts: the site's own materials may not be used commercially without a licence — that concerns the site's content. A direct ban on commercial use of a transcript is not in the terms.

Do they train on your data

By default no, and the arrangement here is the reverse of the usual one: this is opt-in, not opt-out. The terms say verbatim: "If you have not opted in, Your Content uploaded on or after the Effective Date is not used to train or maintain any machine-learning models".

If the consent is switched on, what is uploaded is used to "develop, train and improve machine-learning models" — also verbatim.

Withdrawal of consent is described directly: "withdraw your opt-in at any time from your account settings or by emailing [email protected]" — at any moment, through account settings or by writing to the named data-protection address. Until you switch the consent on yourself, recordings do not go into training.

How you earn with it

What bears on earning directly is the rights. The terms leave you all rights to transcripts, subtitles, translations, meeting recordings and Notetaker notes; a direct ban on commercial use is not in them.

The second circumstance is the watermark. On the free plan video export goes out marked: "Export files in DOCX, TXT, SRT and MP4 (watermarked)". Paid plans give "Remove watermark from video exports".

What it will not do

Publish for you it will not: integrations with YouTube, Vimeo and storage services are declared, but a button to post to a feed is not.

Record someone else's conversation without the participants' consent it will not allow. The terms require you to confirm that you have "the consent of all participants to the recording" where the law requires it, and that the material "does not infringe upon any third-party rights". The service may "refuse, or remove any of Your Content if we determine that it may violate this Agreement or any applicable law". A thematic list of forbidden subjects is not in the terms: the bans run through third-party rights and lawfulness.

Give you a full transcript free of charge it is not ready to: on Free that is a one-off ten-minute trial, not a monthly quota. Remove the watermark from video there it will not either: removal is named as a paid-plan feature. The extended set of subtitle formats it will not open on the lower plans: VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML and EDL start at Pro.

Require you to mark the result as AI-made it does not: no AI labelling is declared in the terms or on the pricing page, and about C2PA and metadata there is silence. The watermark on the free plan is the service's own mark, not an AI notice.

Name the exact list of translation languages it also cannot: there is only the round "80+ languages".

Verified data

The checked data this deep dive rests on.

About the platform

AI speech-to-text transcription, automatic subtitles and subtitle translation, AI meeting notes (AI Notetaker) with recording in Google Meet, Zoom and Teams, burning subtitles into video (hardcode subtitles), a subtitle converter, AI Chat over uploaded files; as a separate paid service — proofreading of transcripts and subtitles by a human (Human proofreading)

the composition is taken from the plan cards on the pricing page and the Products & Services menu, not from the marketing block on the home page

source, checked 2026-08-07

Sources diverge: The /languages page is headed «AI Products and Services in 150+ Languages» and gives a table broken down by service (AI Notetaker, AI Transcription, AI Subtitles, Human Transcription, Human Subtitles). All six languages of the catalogue are named outright in the table: Russian, English (Global), Spanish (Global), Chinese and Cantonese, Hindi, Arabic. THE FIGURES ON THE SITE DISAGREE: the Free plan card promises «AI speech-to-text for 60+ languages and dialects» (verbatim), the site heading and the languages page say 150+, AI translation says «80+ languages», human proofreading «65+ languages»; there is no separate LIST of translation languages on the site, only a round number

there is a list for recognition and it contains all six languages of the catalogue; there is no list of TRANSLATION languages — only 80+. The 60+ versus 150+ discrepancy runs across one and the same site, which is why the entry is marked conflicting rather than confirmed

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Platforms

export formats: DOCX, TXT, SRT and MP4 on all plans (on Free the MP4 is watermarked), from the Pro plan VTT, STL, XML, FCPXML, EDL and others are added; the pricing page also names PDF and HTML. Integrations: YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Zapier, an API, an MCP server, HubSpot marked as coming soon; recording of meetings in Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams; there is a mobile app

subtitle formats are spread across plans: the extended set SRT/VTT/STL/XML/FCPXML/EDL opens up only from Pro

source, checked 2026-08-07

Pricing

yes, the Free plan — 0 EUR: unlimited meeting recording, 45 minutes per recording, a «10-minute free trial of AI Transcription, Subtitling and Translation» (verbatim), limited recording history, analysis of 3 files a month through AI Chat, export to DOCX, TXT, SRT and a watermarked MP4

that is, on Free transcription itself is granted once for 10 minutes — a sample, not a standing monthly quota

source, checked 2026-08-07

Basic — 17 EUR a month, or 8.50 EUR a month paid yearly (Save 50%); Pro — 29 EUR a month, or 19 EUR a month paid yearly (Save 34%); Business — 89 EUR a month, or 59 EUR a month paid yearly (Save 34%); Enterprise — price on request. Extra minutes beyond the package — 0.20 EUR a minute. Human proofreading — from 1.75 EUR a minute (on Business from 1.66 EUR with a 5% discount)

the page has an Annually/Monthly switch, and both prices are recorded as shown

source, checked 2026-08-07

8.50 EUR a month paid yearly (the Basic plan); paid monthly the cheapest tier is 17 EUR a month

source, checked 2026-08-07

Limits and restrictions

Free — 45 minutes per recording, a 10-minute trial of transcription/subtitles/translation, 3 files a month in AI Chat; Basic — 120 minutes of transcription, subtitles and translation a month (1440 minutes a year paid yearly), 90 minutes per recording, 10 files in AI Chat, 1 seat; Pro — 600 minutes a month (7200 a year), no limit on recording length, unlimited AI Chat, 3 seats; Business — 6000 minutes a month, no limit on recording length, 5 seats. Package minutes renew monthly or yearly, purchased credits carry over

the carry-over of purchased credits and the reset of package minutes are stated on the same pricing page

source, checked 2026-08-07

Restrictions

the user must hold rights to what they upload and have the consent of the people recorded. Verbatim: they must confirm that they have obtained «the consent of all participants to the recording» where the law requires it, and that the content «does not infringe upon any third-party rights» and complies with applicable law; the service reserves the right to «refuse, or remove any of Your Content if we determine that it may violate this Agreement or any applicable law»

there is no topical list of forbidden subjects in the terms that were read — the prohibitions are framed through third-party rights and lawfulness

source, checked 2026-08-07

Legal

rights stay with the user and are expressly extended to the output of the service. Verbatim: «you retain all rights, title, and interest in and to Your Content. This includes any content generated by the Services — such as transcripts, captions, translations, meeting recordings, or the notes and summaries produced by the Meeting Notetaker». Separately it is stipulated that the materials of the SITE ITSELF may not be used commercially without a licence — that concerns the site's content, not the user's transcripts

the terms contain no outright ban on commercial use of the transcript and translation; the restriction concerns the site's own materials

source, checked 2026-08-07

NO by default: training is possible only with the user's explicit consent. Verbatim: «If you have not opted in, Your Content uploaded on or after the Effective Date is not used to train or maintain any machine-learning models». With consent switched on, uploads are used to «develop, train and improve machine-learning models» (verbatim)

an opt-in model rather than opt-out — for transcribing someone else's speech this is an important difference from most services

source, checked 2026-08-07

yes: consent is given voluntarily and can be withdrawn at any time. Verbatim: «withdraw your opt-in at any time from your account settings or by emailing [email protected]»

withdrawal through the account settings or by writing to the data protection address given

source, checked 2026-08-07

no labelling of the output as AI content is claimed in the terms of use or on the pricing page. There is SOMETHING ELSE: on the free plan video export carries the service's watermark — «Export files in DOCX, TXT, SRT and MP4 (watermarked)» (verbatim), while paid plans allow you to «Remove watermark from video exports». That is the service's brand mark, not an AI notice

the watermark is confirmed by the pricing page; on C2PA, metadata and any duty to label the result as AI the documents read are silent

source, checked 2026-08-07

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