How do you get timestamps every minute? You get them more often than that.
Transcribe the recording and every line comes back with its own timestamp, usually several per minute, so a once-a-minute grid is already more than covered: one file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB (2 GB before your first pack), and a 4-hour recording is ready in about 8 minutes, at about 2 minutes per audio hour. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the full 240 minutes with 260 left.
Where the times live
Dense timestamps, and how to thin them to one a minute.
In the app, on every line
A transcript line is a sentence or a short run of speech, so times appear every few seconds while people are talking. Click a line to hear it. For checking a quote or a figure, this is finer than a minute grid and points closer to the moment.
In the caption files
SRT and VTT give a start and an end time on every cue, in the standard formats that video players and editors read. If your editor or player imports subtitles, the timestamps travel with the text.
Thinned to one a minute
When you want a marker at 00:01:00, 00:02:00 and so on, export JSON and keep the first line that starts in each new minute. A few lines of Python or a spreadsheet formula does it; check the field names in your file before you write the script.
Chapters for the coarse view
Chapters give you the big picture: each one begins with a time, and they fall where the subject changes rather than on the clock. For a 4-hour recording that is a short list you can read in a minute, and it is often what a reader wants. Upload from the upload page if the file is larger than the 500 MB this box takes.
Timestamps by hand
Why a minute grid is usually the wrong thing to build by hand.
✗ Marking the clock manually
Someone listens with a stopwatch and types a time every sixty seconds.
- Four hours of listening for 240 markers
- Times drift by a few seconds each
- A marker in the middle of a sentence
- Nothing between the markers
- A tool that times only the first hour
- Captions that do not line up with the video
✓ Times from the transcript
Every line already has its time; you choose how many to show.
- About 8 minutes for 4 hours
- A timestamp on each line
- Start and end on every caption cue
- Per-minute markers from the JSON
- Chapters for a short overview
- Times that match the original audio
Sample
Lines from one minute of a long recording.
Illustrative only, written for this page to show how closely the times fall; 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 $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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Timestamps, answered.
Is there a setting for exactly one timestamp per minute?
You do not need one. Every line carries its own time, which is denser than a minute. For an exact one-minute rhythm, export JSON and keep the first line in each minute, or round the times in a spreadsheet.
Do the timestamps match the original video?
Yes, they follow the recording's own clock. If you cut or speed up the file before uploading, the times follow the edited file, so transcribe the version your readers will watch.
How much does a long timestamped recording cost?
A 4-hour recording is 240 minutes: the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers it with 260 left. Ten such recordings are 2,400 minutes, which goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
What about a 10-hour recording?
One file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and processing runs at about 2 minutes per audio hour. Anything longer goes up as two files; the second file's times then start from zero, so note the offset.
Can I use the times for YouTube chapters?
The chapter list with start times is a good starting point. YouTube reads chapters from a list of times in the description; check its current rules, such as the first chapter starting at 0:00.
Who can see my recording?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.
Related
Related timestamp pages
Times on every line, not just every minute. About 8 minutes for four hours.
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