How long does it take to transcribe 100 hours of audio? about 200 minutes of processing.
One hundred hours of audio takes about 200 minutes of processing here, a little over three hours, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, sent as at least ten files because each file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, with or without a pack. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
A hundred hours, planned
Processing is a few hours; getting the files in is the real project.
The processing arithmetic
At about 2 minutes per audio hour, 100 hours adds up to roughly 200 minutes of processing. The rate is steady on long files: the public proof page shows 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds. You can queue files and come back; every finished transcript lands in your Library.
Moving the files is the bottleneck
100 hours of MP3 at 128 kbps is close to 6 GB in total, and the same hours as video can be hundreds of gigabytes. Paste links where the audio already lives: a podcast RSS feed, a YouTube channel's videos, or a shared Google Drive folder brings a batch in without uploading from your machine.
How the archive divides
Each file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so 100 hours means at least ten files, and usually many more because most archives hold episodes, lectures or interviews of an hour or two. Each file gets its own transcript, chapters and brief; start the first one on the upload page.
The cheapest way to buy 6,000 minutes
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire, so the remainder covers the next batch. A team that records every week can also look at the $19 a month Workspace.
A hundred hours, two ways
A season of typing, or an afternoon of uploads.
✗ Typing the archive
At about four hours of typing per audio hour, 100 hours is around 400 hours of work, roughly ten weeks for one full-time person.
- Around ten working weeks
- Several transcribers, several styles
- Archive searchable only at the end
- Older recordings left for later
- No summaries for any file
- Costs that grow with every hour
✓ Sending it here
The archive in, file by file, with every transcript structured the same way.
- About 200 minutes of processing in all
- Feeds and folders pasted as links
- Chapters and a brief for each file
- Names, dates and figures listed per file
- Speakers named in the summary and quotes
- $36 for the full 6,000 minutes
Sample output
One file from a hundred-hour archive.
Illustrative lines from an invented archive recording; nothing here comes from a real collection.
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 $4 (300 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
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
A hundred hours of audio, the planning questions.
How long does it take to transcribe 100 hours of audio?
About 200 minutes of processing across all the files, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The total time depends mostly on how quickly the files can be uploaded or fetched from links.
How much does 100 hours cost?
$36. 100 hours is 6,000 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Do I have to upload a hundred hours from my computer?
No. A podcast RSS feed, YouTube videos and live replays, Twitch and Kick VODs, Vimeo and Google Drive share links and folders can be pasted as links. Recordings on other platforms need to be downloaded first and then uploaded.
Some of my files are longer than ten hours or bigger than 5 GB.
Split those into parts under 10 hours and 5 GB, or convert large WAV or video files to MP3 or M4A. Before a pack is on the account, single files up to 5 GB start right away.
Can I check the quality before buying for the whole archive?
Yes. A first recording is previewed free for its opening minutes. Pick a representative file, ideally one with the hardest audio, and read the preview before you buy.
Which languages and exports, and what happens to the archive?
99 languages are detected automatically for each file. Every transcript exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. All of it is transcribed on our own servers and none of it is ever used for training.
Related
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