How long does it take to transcribe 2 hours of audio? about 4 minutes.
Two hours of audio takes about 4 minutes to transcribe here, because processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, and the file goes in whole since one 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.
Where the minutes go
Four minutes of processing; the rest is your upload.
The processing itself
At roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, two hours is a four-minute wait. The longest run on the public proof page, 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds, shows the same pace holding on files many times longer. Noisy audio with many voices can take a little longer.
The upload often takes longer
A two-hour MP3 at 128 kbps is about 115 MB and uploads in a minute or two on most connections. Two hours of HD camera video can be several gigabytes, which is where the time goes. Export the audio, or paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link on the upload page.
The steps, start to finish
Drop the file or paste a link. The opening minutes come back as a preview so you can judge the result. Add a pack and the rest of the recording is transcribed from where the preview stopped. The transcript, chapters and brief then wait in your Library.
What two hours costs
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Sixteen two-hour files, 1,920 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes.
Two hours, two ways
A working day of typing, or a four-minute wait.
✗ Typing it yourself
Manual transcription is commonly put at around four hours of work per audio hour, so two hours of recording means roughly a full working day at the keyboard.
- About eight hours of typing
- Constant pausing and rewinding
- Timestamps added by hand, if at all
- Crosstalk guessed at
- No summary at the end
- Searchable only when finished
✓ Sending it here
Two hours in, a timestamped transcript out, with structure already added.
- Roughly 4 minutes to process
- Timestamps throughout
- Chapters across the two hours
- A brief with thesis and takeaways
- Each voice named in the summary and key quotes
- 120 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack
Sample output
The end of hour two, four minutes later.
Illustrative only: lines invented for this page from a generic two-hour recording, not a real one.
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
Two hours of audio, the follow-up questions.
How long does it take to transcribe 2 hours of audio?
About 4 minutes of processing, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, plus however long the upload takes. A link skips the upload entirely.
Is any of it free?
Yes. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. A two-hour one is previewed, and a pack from $4 transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.
Do I need to split a 2-hour file?
No. Two hours is well inside the 10-hour, 5 GB ceiling for one file. Before your first pack, files up to 5 GB start straight away, which covers almost any two-hour audio recording.
Does the language change the time?
Not noticeably. 99 languages are detected automatically, and English terms inside another language are handled. A recording that switches languages is detected on its main one.
What comes back after the four minutes?
A transcript with timestamps, chapters, a brief with the thesis and takeaways, the names, numbers and dates mentioned, the questions the recording answers, and a chat over the text. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Which exports are there, and is the audio private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. The recording is transcribed on our own servers and never used to train anything.
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Related questions
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