How do I transcribe a full-day conference? One file, about sixteen minutes.
Upload the day's recording as one file, or paste the livestream replay link: an 8-hour day is 480 minutes, under the 10-hour or 5 GB limit per file, and it is transcribed in about 16 minutes at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The first 20 minutes are free and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the full day; files over 2 GB start once that pack is on the account.
The day, from first welcome to closing remarks
Keynotes, panels and Q&A, in one searchable document.
Get the right file from AV
Ask the venue's AV team for the program feed, the mixed audio that went to the hall speakers, rather than a camera's own microphone. An audio-only export of an 8-hour day is usually a few hundred megabytes, while full-resolution video can run past 5 GB and need splitting.
Or paste the stream
A conference streamed on YouTube can be transcribed from the replay link, and Vimeo, Twitch and Kick replays work the same way. Replays longer than 6 hours start once a pack is on the account, so buy first for a full-day stream; nothing has to be downloaded or uploaded.
Chapters that follow the programme
The day comes back with chapters and timestamps that track the change of speaker and topic, so each keynote and panel has its own entry. The brief gives the takeaways of the whole day, and the chat answers what a given panel said about a topic.
Several rooms, several files
Parallel tracks mean one recording per room. Upload each room's day as its own file; three rooms of 7 hours each, 1,260 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Heavier files can go through the upload page.
Long event recordings
Why a conference day breaks most transcription tools.
✗ Tools sized for a meeting
Many services cap a single file at an hour or two, so an eight-hour day means cutting and reassembling by hand.
- Hour-long caps on one file
- Cutting the day into a dozen pieces
- Timestamps restarting in every piece
- Livestreams downloaded before anything starts
- No way to find one panel's remarks
- A per-minute bill that grows with every room
✓ The whole day at once
One file holds the full day, with a single clock from the opening words to the last.
- 480 minutes in one file
- About 16 minutes to text
- The $6 pack covers the day
- Replay links instead of uploads
- Panellists named in the summary
- SRT and VTT for the session videos
Sample output
Moments from a long conference day.
An illustrative excerpt with invented lines, not from a real event. The clock runs from the start of the recording across the whole day.
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
Conference transcription, answered.
How long does a full conference day take to transcribe?
About 16 minutes for 8 hours of audio once the file is in. A replay link skips your upload entirely; a large video file can take longer to send than to transcribe, so an audio-only export helps.
What does a whole conference cost?
A single 8-hour day, 480 minutes, fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A two-day event is 960 minutes and fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a three-day event with parallel rooms is likely to need the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so leftovers carry to the next event.
The day ran longer than 10 hours. What now?
Split the recording at the lunch break into two files; each part becomes its own transcript. Ten hours or 5 GB is the most one file can hold, whichever comes first.
Are the speakers identified?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, which is where each panellist's points are gathered. A name said from the stage, such as a moderator's introduction, helps the naming.
Can attendees' questions from the floor be transcribed?
Yes, if they reached the recording. Questions asked into a roaming microphone are captured cleanly through the program feed; an unmiked question from the back may be faint or missing. Music during breaks and applause are not transcribed.
Can I publish captions for the session videos?
Yes. Export SRT or VTT for each recording and add them to the videos you publish. TXT and DOCX serve for a written report of the day, and JSON for anyone building an archive. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
More about long events.
The whole conference day. Text before the evening reception.
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