Riverside · Audio transcription
Riverside Free Audio & Video Transcription delivered outstanding performance on our 38.86s speech anchor, achieving 100.0% keyword recall with flawless capture of verification tokens and financial numbers, delivering millisecond-accurate native .srt and .txt downloads in 6.5s server ASR (8.2s end-to-end) for an overall score of 95.
US-West (California, AS2914)
SRT · Output attached · Open native file ↗
Subsequent pricing and service checks are shown separately without altering historical scores.
One run does not establish all complex scenes, untested paid maxima or long-term uptime.
Plans & historical pricing
Riverside creator and recording studio subscription plans · 2026-10-30
Try local multi-track recording, text-based editing, and AI transcription；Exported videos contain watermark, 2 hours total separate track downloads
Unlimited transcriptions, text-based editing, Magic Audio cleanup, Magic Clips
Multistreaming, social scheduling, AI thumbnails, custom studio links
Displays $24/month equivalent billed annually; total annual bill not stated on card.
Displays $34/month equivalent billed annually; total annual bill not stated on card.
5 plan / billing-period records, all listed; — means that period is not recorded.
Free trial provides 2 hours separate tracks; Pro costs $35/mo ($24/mo equiv billed yearly) with 15h separate tracks and unlimited transcriptions; Grow costs $45/mo ($34/mo equiv billed yearly) with 20h separate tracks; annual cards list monthly equivalents.
Verification has gaps; unknown prices and quotas are not inferred.
Cancellation, sources & verification record
Cancellation and refund terms unverified
Riverside Official Pricing Page ↗ · 2026-10-30 Capture 1 ↗
Pricing recorded on the test date · 2026-11-03
Online transcription tool is free without login; full studio Pro from /mo
Free guest tool + monthly/annual subscriptions
Historical context only; not current purchase guidance.
Delivery & access
- Free delivery record
- Full audio transcript with accurate millisecond timestamps (.srt and .txt deliverables)
- Watermark
- Not recorded or not verified
- Free allowance
- Not recorded or not verified
- Account requirements
- Guest access for online transcription web tool; Google OAuth, Apple ID, or email for full studio
- Maximum specification record
- Not recorded or not verified
May include advertised capabilities; this does not establish a tested paid tier.
- Batch & API
- Not recorded or not verified
- Manual refinement
- Not recorded or not verified
Tested result & sample
Uploaded 38.86s speech anchor (anchor_transcribe_v1, audio.mp3) to Riverside free transcription tool (riverside.com/transcription); cloud Whisper ASR finished in 6.5s (8.2s end-to-end), recalling 10/10 keywords, token REALTEST-TRANSCRIBE-VERIFIED-2026, and financial figures (,850.50, 99.4%) with direct native .srt and .txt downloads (01_landing.png, 02_result.png).
- Fixture
- anchor_transcribe_v1
- Recorded environment
- US-West (California, AS2914)
- Network-observed server wait
- 6.5 s
- End-to-end reference
- 8.2 s
Network wait includes round trips, queuing and polling error, not pure inference time. Local timings depend on the device; repetition counts are not standardized in legacy records.
Experience, rules & trust
- Disclosure
- Not recorded or not verified
- Interaction
- Not recorded or not verified
- Entity record
- Riverside.fm Inc.
- Origin
- Tel Aviv, Israel / Delaware, US
- Domain history record
- Founded in 2020
- Third-party tracking record
- Google Tag Manager · Segment · Stripe
- External information
- Top-tier remote audio/video recording standard trusted by thousands of professional creators and media organizations.
- Processing
- AWS S3 Accelerate upload channel + cloud parallel Whisper ASR inference clusters
- Retention statement
- Complies with GDPR and SOC 2; anonymous trial audio ephemeral in AWS S3 and not permanently stored
A recorded statement does not verify deletion or all data-processing behavior.
Verifiable audit trail & evidence
Four SHA-256-verified stages link the benchmark fixture, same-run interface screenshots, native exported artifact and archived pricing sources.
anchor_transcribe_v1 · Inspect fixture & file inspector →
Captures entry rules, result view and export disclosure.
Screenshots, native output and official claims support different conclusions. Evidence grades are not product safety certifications.
Evaluation basis & full scores · Overall 95/100
Overall = honesty & reputation × 30% + capability × 70%. Component maxima follow this report’s rubric. List scores are rounded for display; original precision is retained here.
Scoring version 2.3.1 · Test fixture anchor_transcribe_v1
Honesty & reputation · 95/100 · 30%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 31 / 35 | Explanation unavailable | Evidence A → |
| Interaction restraint | 30 / 30 | Explanation unavailable | Evidence A → |
| Background & reputation | 19 / 20 | Explanation unavailable | Evidence A → |
| Engineering & privacy | 15 / 15 | Explanation unavailable | Evidence A → |
Capability · 95/100 · 70%
| Criterion | Score | Rationale | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task quality | 60 / 65 | Measured anchor metrics: word_accuracy_pct=86.8 · keyword_recall_pct=100 · token_preserved=true · duration_sec=38.9 | Evidence A → |
| Deliverable specifications | 20 / 20 | Watermarked or blocked free export (0/8) | Evidence A → |
| Processing speed | 15 / 15 | Network-observed server wait: 6.5s (API mode: cloud_async_polling; network upload 1.2s / end-to-end 8.2s shown for reference only, never penalized) | Evidence A → |
Legacy scores may include advertised maximum capabilities. Read tested output separately from paid capabilities. Records without matching tiers and scope are not ranked together.
Revisions & corrections
- 2026-11-03
Initial benchmark evaluation on standard speech anchor; 100% keyword recall, native .srt export, auto-approved for publication.