Murmel vs Amberscript

The facts side by side

Where Amberscript is stronger

• Human work. Amberscript also has transcripts made by people, over 99% accurate, from €1.85 per minute. Murmel has no human transcription. For a record that must be flawless without your own correction, that is a real difference.
• Broadcast subtitles. Human subtitles from €4.40 per minute and export to EBU-STL, the format broadcasters use. Murmel delivers SRT and VTT.
• Languages. Over 90 languages versus Dutch and English at Murmel.
• Large organisations. SSO on enterprise and integrations with Kaltura and Opencast among others, useful for educational institutions with a video platform.
• Zoom meetings. The separate Amber Notes service has a bot for Zoom, Teams and Meet. The Murmel note taker works with Teams and Meet, not Zoom.

Where Murmel is different

Murmel does one thing: turning Dutch speech into text. The model, murmel-flash, is an architecture of its own trained from scratch on Dutch speech, with English as a second language. On four open Dutch benchmarks the largest model makes the fewest errors of the seven models tested (the measurement). Amberscript was not part of that test, so which of the two is more accurate on your recordings is something you only learn by trying.

• In the Netherlands, not just in Europe. Audio, transcripts, account and payments are processed and stored in the Netherlands (Scaleway, Leafcloud in Amsterdam, Mollie).
• Note taker in the plan. Paste a Teams or Meet link and the note taker joins. No second service needed.
• Single hours without a subscription. €1.45 per hour incl. VAT with credits, versus €10 per hour one-time at Amberscript.
• You decide how long data stays. Keep until you delete it, or delete automatically after one day up to a year. At Amberscript it is a fixed 6 months.
• Fast. An hour of audio is usually done in under a minute.

What it costs: two examples

10 hours a month, for example weekly team meetings

At Amberscript that fits Pro: €29 a month for 10 hours. At Murmel it fits Basic: €10.89 incl. VAT a month for 12 hours, leaving 2 hours to spare. With annual billing Murmel gives 20% off; Amberscript offers Pro annually for €290 (120 hours).

One interview of one hour

A one-time machine transcription costs €10 at Amberscript. At Murmel you buy at least €6.05 in credits; that covers over four hours, and the rest stays valid for six months. Having the interview typed out by a person costs from €111 at Amberscript (60 minutes times €1.85). How to review an interview quickly yourself is explained in transcribe interviews.

Switching from Amberscript

1. 1
   Keep your old transcriptsExport what you want to keep to Word or TXT. Murmel cannot import Amberscript transcripts, and Amberscript deletes files after 6 months.
2. 2
   Move your vocabularyDid you use the Amberscript dictionary for names and jargon? Put the same words in the Murmel vocabulary.
3. 3
   Upload your audioMurmel accepts the same recordings: mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, mov and more, several at once, up to 1 GB per file on Basic. Group them in projects.
4. 4
   Choose your retentionSet whether recordings stay or disappear after a fixed period. Then export to Word, PDF, SRT or VTT.

Other alternatives to Amberscript

• Murmel vs Happy Scribe: also human proofreading and many languages, with a Zoom note taker.
• Murmel vs Good Tape: Danish service with 20 hours a month.
• Murmel vs a transcription agency: if you only want human work, with the rates of three Dutch agencies.

All services side by side are in the overview of transcription software for Dutch. Murmel pricing is on the pricing page.

How this comparison was made

This page was written by Murmel itself, not by an independent party. Murmel has no affiliation with Amberscript. On 22 October 2026 these public pages were checked: the Amberscript pricing page and privacy policy and the Amber Notes site (ambernotes.eu). Only what they state has been used. Prices and features change, so always check the Amberscript website itself before you decide. Murmel has not measured the accuracy of Amberscript, so this page makes no claim about it. How Murmel itself is measured is described in the benchmark methodology. Spotted a mistake or an outdated price? Let us know via contact and it will be corrected.

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