Transcribe a 2-hour court hearing as a working transcript you can search and cite internally.
A 2-hour court hearing is transcribed in about 4 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, and the audio a court releases for that length is usually 30 to 120 MB depending on format. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For lawyers, paralegals, journalists and parties
Two hours of argument and evidence, searchable before you leave the building.
Where hearing audio comes from
Courts that release audio often supply a download or a disc, in formats that vary; convert an unusual one to MP3 or WAV if it does not upload. Hearings streamed publicly on YouTube or Vimeo can be pasted as a link. Your own permitted recording uploads directly. Follow the court's rules on using its recordings.
About four minutes
At roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, a two-hour hearing is text in about four. A full court day of six hours is about twelve and can go in as one file.
A matter, counted
One hearing uses 120 minutes of the $4 pack of 300. A busy practice transcribing 30 such hearings, 3,600 minutes, fits the $32 pack of 6,000.
What the brief gathers
Chapters mark submissions, evidence and the ruling. The brief lists the dates, amounts, exhibit numbers and case references spoken, and the judge, counsel and witnesses are named in the summary and key quotes. Every line keeps its timestamp, so a quote can be checked against the audio before it goes into a note.
Why hearing recordings sit unused
The audio is available. Nobody has two hours to relisten.
✗ Working from the audio
Checking one submission means finding it in a long, flat recording.
- Relistening to confirm a single phrase
- Notes taken in court with gaps
- Ruling wording paraphrased from memory
- Waiting for an official transcript to prepare
- Dates and amounts double-checked by ear
- No search across past hearings
✓ Working from the text
A timestamped working transcript, chaptered, with the figures listed.
- Text in about 4 minutes
- Submissions and ruling as chapters
- Dates and amounts in the brief
- Every line with a timestamp to check
- DOCX for case notes
- Packs from $4 for 300 minutes
Sample
From the middle of a two-hour hearing.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real court, case, judge or party. Timestamps run from the start of the audio file.
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
Two-hour court hearings: what to know.
How long does a 2-hour hearing take to transcribe?
Around 4 minutes, given about 2 minutes per audio hour.
Is this a certified or official court transcript?
No. Where the court requires a certified copy, order it through the court's own process. This is an AI transcript for working from, for preparation, notes and research, and nothing on this page is legal advice.
The court gave us an unusual audio format. Will it upload?
Common audio and video formats upload as they are, including MP3, WAV, M4A and MP4. If yours does not, convert it to MP3 or WAV with any free audio tool and upload that.
Are the judge and counsel identified?
They are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, based on how they are addressed in the hearing. The transcript itself is continuous text with timestamps.
What if the hearing ran all day?
A single file may run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Uploads up to 5 GB start right away; a larger one can be split or exported as audio.
Is the recording kept confidential?
Hearing audio is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training. You can delete the audio and transcript at any time.
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