Transcribe a 10-hour recording day straight off the recorder.
A ten-hour recording day is 600 minutes of audio, and it turns into text in about 20 minutes, since each audio hour takes about 2. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
A day of tape, made usable
Field days, shoot days and studio marathons, turned into text you can search.
Whatever kept recording all day
A researcher's lapel recorder at a field site, the sound recordist's track on a documentary shoot, a podcast studio running episode after episode, a phone left on through an event. Ten hours or 5 GB goes in as one file, which keeps the day on a single timeline.
Watch the WAV size
Uncompressed stereo WAV runs roughly 600 MB to 1 GB an hour, so ten hours lands well past the 5 GB ceiling. Convert to MP3 or M4A first; the speech survives and the file drops to a few hundred megabytes. Before a pack is on the account, files up to 5 GB start right away.
A day you can navigate
Chapters mark where the day changed: a new location, a new guest, a new take. The brief collects the names, figures and dates spoken, and the questions the recording answers, so a producer or researcher works from the text instead of the timeline. Start a day like this on the upload page.
A shoot or field season, priced
One ten-hour day uses 600 of the 3,000 minutes in the $18 pack, so three such days fit. An eight-day shoot or field trip, 4,800 minutes, sits on the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so the next season can use what is left.
The usual way
A full day of audio is easy to record and slow to use.
✗ Ten hours on a memory card
The recorder captured everything, and now someone has to listen to all of it to find the good parts.
- Logging takes by ear
- Timecodes noted by hand
- Files too large for most tools
- Interviews mixed with ambient stretches
- Good quotes found by luck
- A backlog that grows each shoot day
✓ The day, searchable
One transcript with timestamps, chapters and a brief that points at the useful moments.
- About 20 minutes per ten-hour day
- Timestamps throughout for the edit
- Chapters at each change of scene
- Speakers named in the summary and key quotes
- SRT and VTT for rough cuts
- JSON for a logging spreadsheet
Sample
Hours apart, one transcript.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real recording. Timestamps count from when the recorder was switched on.
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
Ten-hour recording days, answered.
How long does a 10-hour recording take to process?
About 20 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes for each audio hour. The public proof page records a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds.
My recorder saved the day as a 7 GB WAV. What should I do?
Convert it to MP3 or M4A before uploading. A file can be up to 5 GB, with or without a pack, and ten hours of compressed audio is only a few hundred megabytes.
The recorder split the day into several files. Do I need to join them?
No. Send each file as it is; each one comes back with its own transcript and chapters. Join them only if you want one continuous timeline, and keep the joined file under 10 hours and 5 GB.
What does a recording day cost?
600 minutes, which goes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes and leaves 2,400 for later days. Your first recording gets a free preview of the opening minutes, so you can hear how the opening comes out before paying.
There is a lot of wind, traffic and music in the background. Is that a problem?
Background music, sound effects and crowd noise are not transcribed; the speech is. Speech close to the microphone comes out best, so check passages recorded at a distance against the audio.
What languages work, and what happens to the recordings?
99 languages are detected automatically, and a day that moves between two languages is detected on its main one. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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