Can I transcribe a Twitch VOD over 6 hours? Yes, by link.
Yes: paste the Twitch VOD link and a broadcast of up to 10 hours is transcribed, and because it runs past 6 hours it starts once a pack is on the account rather than on the free first 20 minutes. An 8-hour VOD is 480 minutes, inside the $6 pack (500 minutes) with 20 left, and it is text in about 16 minutes at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour; a stream longer than 10 hours or 5 GB goes in as two files.
Long streams
From a marathon broadcast to text.
Why six hours matters
Stream recordings up to 6 hours can start on the free first 20 minutes. Past 6 hours, the VOD starts once a pack is on the account, and the $6 pack (500 minutes) is enough for anything up to 8 hours 20 minutes.
Past ten hours
A subathon VOD longer than 10 hours does not go in by link. Download it from your creator dashboard, export the audio (ten hours at 128 kbps is about 580 MB), split it into parts under 10 hours and upload them on the upload page.
A month of streaming
Four 7-hour streams a week for four weeks adds up to 6,720 minutes of broadcast. One $24 pack (5,000) plus one $12 pack (2,000) covers it with 280 to spare, and no plan renews behind your back.
What comes back
A brief with thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps to find highlights, the names, numbers and dates said on stream, and a chat to ask when a topic came up. Co-streamers and guests are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Marathon VODs
Why eight-hour streams rarely get transcribed.
✗ Too long for most tools
Caption tools are sized for clips, and long VODs disappear before anyone gets round to them.
- Length caps far under a stream
- VODs downloaded, cut and re-uploaded
- Game audio smeared into the text
- Past broadcasts that expire
- Highlights found by scrubbing
- Monthly plans for an irregular schedule
✓ The VOD, then the text
Paste the link while the broadcast is still up.
- VODs up to 10 hours by link
- 480 minutes on the $6 pack
- About 16 minutes to text
- Game sound and music left out
- Chapters to find highlights
- SRT and VTT for edits
Sample output
From hour six of a charity stream.
Invented lines for illustration; not a real channel or broadcast.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Long Twitch VODs, answered.
Why can't I use the free minutes on a 7-hour VOD?
Stream recordings over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account. Shorter VODs can use the first 20 minutes free as a preview before you decide. The smallest pack is $6 for 500 minutes, enough for one long VOD with a little left over.
How much does an 8-hour stream cost?
It uses 480 minutes. The $6 pack (500 minutes) covers it with 20 left; if you stream that long every week, the $12 pack (2,000 minutes) holds four such streams with 80 to spare.
Does a Kick or YouTube Live VOD work the same way?
Yes. Kick VODs and YouTube live replays go in by link with the same 10-hour limit and the same 6-hour rule. Vimeo links work too; for other platforms, download the recording and upload the file.
Will the game audio and music be in the transcript?
No. Music, sound effects and game noise are not transcribed; your voice is. Loud game audio over speech can still make some words harder to catch, so a stream mixed with your microphone above the game reads best.
How quickly is it done?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so 8 hours takes around 16 minutes once the link is fetched. A 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds on the public proof page.
Which exports can I use, and is it private?
Export SRT or VTT for the full broadcast, or TXT, DOCX and JSON for notes. Everything is transcribed on our own servers, and none of it is used for training. All 99 supported languages are detected automatically, so a bilingual community stream is handled on its main language.
Related
More on streams.
Over six hours on stream? Paste the VOD link.
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