Journalists
OPTES transcribes your recorded interviews, dialects included, reads long documents and reports and summarises them with page references, researches a story's background with sources, analyses official data tables and edits copy to fit the space. Verifying every fact and every source, and every editorial call, stays with you and your newsroom.
Windows 10 and 11 · 64-bit · launching Monday, October 5, 2026
Turns a recorded interview into text, even when the source speaks in dialect. You go back to the recording to confirm every quote before it goes in quotation marks.
Transcribe my interview with the generator owner as spoken, and mark unclear passages so I can listen again
Reads reports running to hundreds of pages, or scanned documents, and summarises the key points with page numbers. You check each figure in its place in the original.
Summarise this budget report in ten points, and give the page number for every figure you mention
Builds the background and a timeline of events with links to sources. You open and verify each one, and find a second independent source for anything sensitive.
Give me a timeline of the electricity crisis in Basra province since 2018, with a link for every event
Writes code to analyse an official data file, pulls out trends and outliers and explains its method. You check the numbers before you build a headline on them.
This CSV has monthly food prices from the official statistics office. Where was the biggest rise in the last year?
Cuts the story to the word count, suggests alternative headlines and intros, and flags sentences that need attribution. The editorial call is yours and your editor's.
Cut this story to 600 words, suggest three headlines that aren't sensational, and flag any sentence that needs attribution
FAQ
It shortens the time-consuming work: transcribing interviews, reading and summarising long documents, researching background with sources, analysing data and editing. Verification and editorial decisions stay with the journalist and the newsroom.
No. It gives summaries with sources so you can check them yourself, and it can be wrong like any tool. Verify every fact at its original source, ideally with a second independent source, before publishing.
Don't upload anything that could identify a confidential source unless it is necessary, and replace names and identifying details first. Always follow your organisation's policy and professional ethics on source protection.
It can draft from your notes and transcripts, but the story is your responsibility: verification, balance, correct attribution and final wording. Follow your organisation's policy on disclosing AI use too.
Launching Monday, October 5, 2026, at 04:30 Baghdad time (01:30 UTC).