How long does it take to transcribe 5 hours of audio? about 10 minutes, as one file.
Five hours of audio takes about 10 minutes to transcribe here, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, and it goes in as one file because the limit is 10 hours or 5 GB per file, with or without a pack. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Five hours, broken down
A ten-minute wait for half a day of audio.
The pace holds on long files
Processing scales with the audio, not with some cap that kicks in at an hour. Five hours lands around ten minutes, and the public proof page shows a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds. Dense crosstalk or a weak signal can stretch it a little.
Keep it in one piece
Five hours is half of what one file can hold, so there is no reason to cut it up. One file keeps one clock, which means a timestamp in the transcript matches the original recording exactly. The chapters split the five hours into sections for you.
Size decides the upload
Five hours of MP3 at 128 kbps is roughly 290 MB. The same five hours as camera video can pass the 5 GB one file can be. Send the audio track, or paste a YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Kick or Google Drive link on the upload page.
Five hours, priced
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Six recordings of five hours, 1,800 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Sixteen of them, 4,800 minutes, need the $32 pack of 6,000.
Five hours by hand or here
Most of a working week, or one cup of coffee.
✗ By hand
At the usual estimate of about four hours of typing per audio hour, five hours of recording is close to twenty hours of work.
- About twenty hours at the keyboard
- Split across several sittings
- Inconsistent timestamps
- Fatigue in the later hours
- No overview of the whole
- Days before anything is searchable
✓ Here
One file in, one transcript out, with structure and a brief.
- About 10 minutes of processing
- One continuous timeline
- Chapters across all five hours
- Names, numbers and dates listed
- Speakers named in the summary and chapters
- 300 of 300 minutes in the $4 pack
Sample output
Hour one and hour five, ready together.
Illustrative lines written for this page; they come from no real recording.
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
Five hours of audio, follow-ups.
How long does it take to transcribe 5 hours of audio?
About 10 minutes of processing, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Add the upload time, which for a 290 MB MP3 is short and for a multi-gigabyte video can be the longest part.
Can five hours go in as one file?
Yes. The ceiling is 10 hours or 5 GB per file, so five hours fits with room to spare. Files up to 5 GB upload with or without a pack on your account.
What will five hours cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Your first recording gets its free preview of the opening minutes, so you see the result before you pay.
The five hours are a Twitch stream replay. Can I paste the link?
Yes. Twitch and Kick VODs, YouTube videos and live replays, Vimeo, Google Drive and podcast feeds can all be pasted as links. A stream replay longer than six hours starts once a pack is on the account; five hours is under that line.
What if the recording mixes languages?
99 languages are detected automatically, and English terms inside other languages are handled. A file that switches between languages is detected on its main language, so review the passages in the second one.
What comes back, and who can see the audio?
The transcript, chapters with timestamps, a brief, the questions answered in the recording and a chat over the text, exportable as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. The audio is processed on our own servers and never used for training.
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