Transcription for journalists long interviews and press conferences.
A two-hour interview comes back as text in about 4 minutes and a one-hour press conference in about 2, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
What a reporter records
Long sit-down interviews, phone calls, briefings and the meeting that ran three hours.
Interviews and calls
Sit-down interviews are usually recorded on a phone or a handheld recorder; phone and video interviews on the call app's own recorder. Recording a call needs the consent the law where you are requires. Files up to 500 MB go into the box above; a long video continues on upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Briefings and press conferences
A press conference streamed to YouTube, including a live replay, can be pasted as a link, and so can a Vimeo link or a Google Drive file a press office shared. A briefing on another player is downloaded first. Each comes back with chapters for every question from the floor.
What you get to write from
A brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, every name, number and date said, the questions the recording answers, and a chat over the transcript to ask where the minister mentioned the budget. Interviewees are named in the summary and chapters.
The caution: check quotes against the audio
An AI transcript is a fast first draft. Before a quote goes into print, play it at its timestamp and confirm the words, especially names, numbers and anything said quickly. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when a source asked for discretion.
Where interview transcription costs a story
The interview ended at four. The copy is due at six. The best quote is somewhere in hour two.
✗ Scrubbing through audio
Reporters replay long recordings hunting for one line, or type the quotes they think they need and miss the better one.
- Two hours replayed to find one quote
- Notes that disagree with the tape
- Press conference clips with no context
- Free tools that stop after a short clip
- Upload caps below a long interview
- A subscription for irregular use
✓ The full interview in minutes
Upload once, search the text, and play back only the passages you will quote.
- About 4 minutes for two hours
- Chapters that mark each topic
- Figures and dates listed in the brief
- Quotes checked at their timestamps
- DOCX to share with an editor
- Packs that never expire
Sample
Part of a long interview, as text.
Illustrative only: written for this page. It is not from any real interview, and no real person is quoted.
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
Transcription for journalists, answered.
How quickly is a long interview transcribed?
Roughly 2 minutes for each audio hour. A 90-minute interview is ready in around 3 minutes, a two-hour one in about 4, so the text is waiting before you have filed your notes.
What does a single interview cost?
On a first visit the opening minutes are a free preview. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire.
Is it accurate enough to quote?
It is a strong draft, not a final check. Verify every quote against the audio at its timestamp before publication, particularly names, numbers and accented or fast speech.
Does anything join my call or interview?
No. Nothing joins a live call. You record however you normally do, then upload the file afterwards or paste a link.
I interview in more than one language.
Language detection covers 99 languages and picks the main one in each file. An interview in Spanish, Japanese or Hebrew comes back in that language.
What do I get to export?
TXT and DOCX for writing and sharing with an editor, SRT and VTT for captioning a video interview, and JSON for a newsroom tool. All five come from one run.
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