How long does it take to transcribe 8 hours of audio? about 16 minutes.
Eight hours of audio takes about 16 minutes to transcribe here, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, and it stays one file because the per-file limit is 10 hours or 5 GB, with or without a pack. The opening minutes are a free preview, and the 480 minutes fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes, the tightest fit on the price ladder.
A working day of audio
Sixteen minutes for a recording that lasted from nine to five.
Measured on even longer files
Two minutes per audio hour puts eight hours at about sixteen minutes. The public proof page records a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds, a little over 17 minutes, so eight hours is well within what has been timed.
No splitting at eight hours
Eight hours leaves two hours of headroom under the 10-hour limit for one file. A full court day, a training day, a long stream or an all-day workshop goes in as recorded, and the chapters do the dividing.
Where the time really goes
Eight hours of MP3 at 128 kbps is roughly 460 MB, a quick upload. A full day of HD video is usually several gigabytes and can pass the 5 GB a file can be. Extract the audio, or paste a link on the upload page; a stream replay over six hours starts once a pack is in place.
The pack it fits
280 minutes is just under the 300 in the $4 pack, so the day fits with at least 20 minutes left. Four eight-hour days, 1,920 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000. Ten of them, 4,800 minutes, go on the $32 pack of 6,000.
Eight hours, compared
A week of typing, or a quarter of an hour.
✗ Transcribing it by hand
Using the common rule of thumb of four hours per audio hour, eight hours of recording becomes about thirty-two hours of typing, most of a working week.
- Roughly a week at the keyboard
- Shared out between several people
- Uneven style from typist to typist
- Timestamps missing in places
- No chapters or summary
- Nothing searchable until the end
✓ Transcribing it here
The whole day processed in one run, with the structure added.
- About 16 minutes of processing
- Timestamps from start to finish
- Chapters dividing the day
- A brief with the takeaways
- Speakers identified in the brief and chapters
- 480 minutes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes
Sample output
The whole day, back in about 16 minutes.
Illustrative only; these lines were written for this page and are not from a 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
Eight hours of audio, the next questions.
How long does it take to transcribe 8 hours of audio?
About 16 minutes of processing as one file. The upload adds whatever time your connection needs, which is why audio-only files and links are faster.
Does an 8-hour file fit the cheapest pack?
Yes, just. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Two eight-hour days, 960 minutes, need the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes.
Can I try it before paying?
Your first recording gets a free preview of the opening minutes. With eight hours, that preview shows how the start of the day comes out; a pack then transcribes the remaining hours from where the preview ended.
My 8-hour video is 6 GB. What are my options?
One file can be at most 5 GB. Export the audio track, about 460 MB at 128 kbps, or send the morning and afternoon as two files. If the video is already on YouTube or Vimeo, paste the link.
I have more than ten hours. How does the time add up?
Anything over ten hours goes in as two or more files, and each file is processed at the same rate of about 2 minutes per audio hour. Two eight-hour files come to about 32 minutes of processing in total.
What do I get back, and is it private?
A timestamped transcript, chapters, a brief, the names and numbers said and a chat over the text, exported as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Your audio is transcribed on our own servers and is not used for training.
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