Verbaia 1.0 Launches: a Second-Pass Tool That Checks Transcripts Against Their Own Audio
One product, bought once — no subscription. It runs entirely on the user's own computer, and the full product is free to try for 7 days at verbaia.com.
VOLCANO, Hawaii — October 31, 2026 — Scott Pincus Design today announced the release of Verbaia 1.0, a second-pass editing and audio playback tool for transcripts. Verbaia is available now for Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit) as a download from verbaia.com, at an introductory price of $149 (list price $250). The Mac version is almost ready.
Verbaia is a second-pass post-transcription tool. The user brings a transcript they already have — from any transcription service, or from their own YouTube captions — and the audio it came from, when they have it. Verbaia pairs the two, reads the words against the sound, and plays back the spot that needs to be heard. It works with standalone text as well. Either way, it fixes the mistakes the first pass left behind: the garbles, the wrong words, and names and numbers wrong. When Verbaia isn't sure about a word, it flags the spot and asks — it never guesses quietly. The choice is always the user's, and the corrected copy is theirs to keep, quote, and share.
The first pass of automatic transcription is a rough draft. A 2024 study of YouTube's auto-captions found one word in four wrong (Fathallah et al., DSAI '24, ACM). Another found 150 words wrong in a single 50-minute lecture, even when the captions were rated 98% accurate (Kushalnagar et al., ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 2013). Worldwide, more than 430 million people live with hearing loss that shapes their daily life, according to the World Health Organization — and when the words come back wrong, they're the ones who pay for it. Checking a long transcript by hand means hours of reading against the recording, so most transcripts never get checked at all.
Verbaia is a program the user installs on their own computer. There is no uploading and no waiting: the transcript stays on the user's machine, the program works with no internet connection, and even the license key is checked locally, on the user's own computer. It runs on your own computer, and your words stay with you. Verbaia is built for people who live by the written word — anyone who records meetings, interviews, lectures, or calls and quotes from the transcripts afterward. If a transcript has to be right, Verbaia is for you.
There is one Verbaia — the whole product, with the full set of features, for everybody. No tiers, no add-ons. The license is a one-time payment, and the key never expires. A free trial of the full product runs for 7 days, with no credit card needed: create a free account with an email and password at verbaia.com, download, and run your own transcripts through it.
"Every transcript that comes back from a first pass has mistakes hiding in it — and the mistakes land on the names and the numbers, the words that matter most," said Scott Pincus, founder of Scott Pincus Design. "Verbaia is the second pass. It goes over the text, checks it against the sound, and brings the problem spots to you. The words have to be right."
About Verbaia
Verbaia is the second pass on transcription: it flags the uncertain passages in a transcript and walks the user through them one at a time. Verbaia is a product of Scott Pincus Design, doing business as Verbaia, based in Volcano, Hawaii. Learn more, download the free trial, or buy at verbaia.com.