How long does 10 hours of audio take? about 20 minutes, in a single file.
Ten hours of audio takes about 20 minutes to transcribe here as a single file, and the public proof page records a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds, a little over 17 minutes. Ten hours is the per-file ceiling, alongside 5 GB; the 600 minutes come from the $12 pack of 2,000, and your first recording gets the first 20 minutes free.
Ten hours, measured
The longest file one upload takes, timed.
Measured, not estimated
The proof page lists three long runs: 2.48 hours in 200 seconds, 4.94 hours in 372 seconds and 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds. Ten hours lands at about 20 minutes on the same rate. Treat it as a typical figure rather than a promise, since crowded or noisy audio can run slower.
Upload is the slower part
Ten hours of MP3 at 128 kbps is about 580 MB, while ten hours of video can reach several gigabytes. Export just the audio, or paste a link, and the upload shrinks to minutes.
Right at the line
Ten hours or 5 GB is the most one file can be. A recording a little longer goes in as two parts, and each part is timed the same way. Two five-hour halves take about ten minutes apiece.
What ten hours costs
600 minutes is more than the $6 pack holds, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the one to buy; it leaves 1,400 minutes, over 23 hours, for later.
Ten hours, two ways
A working week of typing, or a twenty-minute wait.
✗ Ten hours by hand
At the commonly cited four hours per audio hour, ten hours of recording is about forty hours of work. Few people can keep that pace for long.
- Around a full working week of typing
- Split between people, with uneven style
- Timestamps patchy or missing
- Later hours typed in a hurry
- Search only once it is all done
- No summary at the end
✓ Ten hours here
One file, one run, one transcript.
- About 20 minutes of processing
- 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds on record
- Timestamps from start to finish
- Chapters across the whole file
- A brief with the main argument and the takeaways
- 600 minutes from the $12 pack
Sample output
Hour ten, ready alongside hour one.
Illustrative, not a real broadcast: lines from a marathon reading close to the 10-hour ceiling.
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
- Unlimited AI chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Questions about ten hours of audio.
How long does it take to transcribe 10 hours of audio?
About 20 minutes of processing as one file, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The proof page records 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds.
Can 10 hours go in as one file?
Yes, 10 hours is exactly the per-file ceiling, together with 5 GB. Anything longer is uploaded as two files. Split it at a natural pause, such as the break between two sessions.
How much do 10 hours cost?
600 minutes, which means the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, at $0.36 an hour. The first 20 minutes of a first recording are free.
My 10-hour file is a large video. Will it fit?
Only if it is under 5 GB. Save just the audio track instead: ten hours at 128 kbps is about 580 MB. A file over 2 GB starts once a pack is on your account.
Which languages can it be in?
Any of the 99 supported languages, which are detected without you choosing. A recording that switches language is detected on its main one.
What comes out of a 10-hour run, and is it private?
A full transcript in TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, plus a brief, chapters and a chat over the text. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, however long they are.
Related
Related pages.
Ten hours of audio. Twenty minutes to the transcript.
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