Transcribe a 2-hour memoir session A parent's stories, turned into pages to edit.
A 2-hour memoir session is 120 minutes and is transcribed in about 4 minutes; a phone voice memo of that length is typically about 50 to 120 MB, well inside the 5 GB a file can be. One session uses 120 of the $4 pack's 300 minutes, and on a first visit the opening minutes are free.
Writing a life down
For family memoirs, ghostwriters and personal historians.
How memoir sessions get recorded
Most are a phone's voice-memo app on the table between a grandparent and the person asking questions, or a video call recorded on a laptop. Ghostwriters and personal historians often use a small handheld recorder. All of these upload as they are, M4A, MP3, WAV or MP4.
From talk to a first draft
Spoken memories wander. Chapters with timestamps group the session by story, the brief draws out the themes and takeaways, and the names, places, dates and numbers mentioned are listed so you can check them with the family. The DOCX export opens straight into your word processor.
Two voices on the tape
The storyteller and the interviewer are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The chat over the transcript helps when drafting: ask what she said about the first job, and the answer comes back with the minute it was said.
A book's worth of sessions
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire, which suits a memoir written over many months.
Memoir work
Why recorded memories rarely become a book.
✗ Hours of tape, no pages
Recording a parent is the easy part; typing up twenty hours of conversation is where projects stop.
- Voice memos unheard since they were made
- Typing one hour takes an evening
- Names and places half-remembered
- Free apps that cut off long memos
- Stories scattered across sessions
- Nothing to send to the rest of the family
✓ Pages to edit
Every session as text, in chapters, ready for a writer.
- 120 minutes per memo
- About 4 minutes to text
- Chapters by story
- Names, places and years listed
- DOCX for drafting
- Packs from $4 for 300 minutes
Sample output
Halfway through a memoir session.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real family.
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
2-hour memoir sessions, answered.
How long does a 2-hour memoir session take?
In around 4 minutes. Each audio hour takes roughly 2 minutes to process, and the public proof page shows 9.31 hours of audio done in 1,033 seconds, so the transcript is ready before the tea goes cold.
Can I upload straight from my phone?
Yes. Open the page in the phone's browser and pick the voice memo; a 2-hour memo is far below the 5 GB a file can be. If the file is in Google Drive, paste the share link instead.
What does a whole memoir cost?
Ten 2-hour sessions come to 1,200 minutes and fit the $18 pack (3,000 minutes). Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Try it first: the opening minutes of your first session are free, and a pack transcribes the rest from where that preview ended.
My grandmother tells stories in two languages. Does that work?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a session that switches language is transcribed on its main one. Check family names and place names against what you know, as you would with any transcript.
The television was on in the background. Will it end up in the text?
Music and background sound are not transcribed, but voices from a television can be picked up if they are loud. Recording in a quiet room with the phone close to the speaker gives the cleanest text.
Is a family recording kept private?
Family recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training. You decide who sees the text: download it as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON and share only what the family agrees to.
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