Transcribe a 2-hour seminar The argument, the objections, the reading list.
A 2-hour seminar is 120 minutes of audio and is transcribed in about 4 minutes; as a 128 kbps MP3 the file is around 115 MB, and an audio-only Zoom M4A is usually smaller. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Two hours around a table
Where seminar recordings come from, and what they turn into.
Where the file comes from
Graduate seminars, reading groups, professional development sessions and research colloquia tend to be recorded three ways: a lecture-capture export in MP4, a Zoom or Teams cloud recording, or a phone set in the middle of the table. Each one uploads as it is. A public seminar series posted on YouTube or Vimeo needs no download at all: paste the link.
Two hours in megabytes
At 128 kbps, two hours of MP3 is about 115 MB. A 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo WAV runs about 1.27 GB, well inside the 5 GB a file can be. A camera filming at 16 Mbps writes roughly 14 GB, which is over the 5 GB ceiling, so export the audio or a lighter MP4 first. Large files continue on the upload page.
What comes back
A brief that states the seminar's thesis and the takeaways, chapters with timestamps that follow each reading or question, and a list of the names, works, figures and dates mentioned. Participants are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and the chat over the transcript answers questions such as which objection the presenter conceded.
A term of seminars
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire, so a pack bought in one term carries into the next.
Seminar notes
Why the notes from a two-hour seminar never match what was said.
✗ Relying on memory and one notebook
The person presenting cannot take notes, and everyone else writes down the parts that matter to their own paper.
- Half the authors cited go unrecorded
- Objections paraphrased into something softer
- Rewatching the video to find one remark
- A free tool that stops after a short clip
- An MP4 too large for the upload form
- Nothing to search before the next session
✓ A transcript to work from
The seminar as text, with a clock, chapters and a brief on top.
- 120 minutes in one file
- Text in about 4 minutes
- Readings and authors listed
- Chapters per paper or question
- Searchable chat over the whole session
- Packs from $4 for 300 minutes
Sample output
Forty minutes into a methods seminar.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real seminar.
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 seminars, answered.
How long does a 2-hour seminar take to transcribe?
About 4 minutes of processing for 120 minutes of audio, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. On the public timing page, a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds, so two hours is a short wait.
What does one seminar cost, and a whole term?
One seminar uses 120 minutes of the $4 pack (300 minutes). A weekly seminar across 14 weeks totals 1,680 minutes and fits the $18 pack (3,000 minutes). On a first visit the opening minutes are free; the rest of a longer recording is transcribed from where that preview ends once a pack is on the account.
Can I paste a link instead of uploading?
Yes, for YouTube (including live replays), Vimeo, Google Drive share links and folders, and podcast feeds. A recording held on a course platform or a lecture-capture system has to be downloaded first and then uploaded.
The seminar recording is a 3 GB video. Will it work?
A large file starts with or without a pack, and every file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours. Exporting the audio track alone shrinks a 2-hour seminar to a few hundred megabytes at most and transcribes the same way.
Our seminar runs partly in another language. Is that a problem?
No. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a session that moves between two languages is transcribed on its main one, with English terms inside other speech handled.
Which formats can I download, and who sees the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
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