Transcribe was created at the BYU Library in 2012 by Geoff Groberg with UX design help from Grant Zabriskie. In 2014 Chad Hansen helped port the project from PHP to Python. In 2019 it was open sourced.

Here is an incomplete list of people who have contributed to Transcribe:

     Geoff Groberg <gg@byu.edu>
     Chad Hansen <cgh@byu.edu>
     Grant Zabriskie <grant_zabriskie@byu.edu>
     Ben Crowder <ben_crowder@byu.edu>
     Scott Eldredge <scott_eldredge@byu.edu>
     Taylor Payne <taylor_payne@byu.edu>
     Mathew Behling <mathew_behling@byu.edu>
     Russell Memory <russell_memory@byu.edu>
     Winn Madesn <winn_madsen@byu.edu>