Transcribe a 2-hour comedy show recording and see which lines actually landed.
A 2-hour comedy show recording uses 120 minutes and turns into text in about 4 minutes. The $6 pack of 500 minutes covers four shows, and the first 20 minutes of the first one are free.
For comedians, producers and editors
A comedian rewrites the act from the tape. Text makes that rewrite faster.
Your set list, read back
Chapters follow each bit with a title and start time, so a two-hour showcase becomes a running order you can compare night to night.
The words, not the room
Laughter, applause and crowd noise are not transcribed. What you get is what was said on stage, which makes it easy to see how a bit was worded on the night it worked.
Captions for the special
SRT and VTT files carry timestamps for every line, ready for the editor cutting the full show for upload.
A long night's video goes straight in
A multi-act showcase filmed in one take can go through the upload page, and a show already on YouTube needs only its link.
Why rewriting from video is slow
Watching yourself for two hours to find one tag line is the worst part of the job.
✗ Working from the tape
Most comics record every set. Few go back through the whole thing, because finding the version of a joke that killed means scrubbing through hours of video.
- Bits you changed on stage and forgot
- A notebook that holds the plan, not what was said
- Two hours of video to scrub for one line
- Laughter that confuses many transcription tools
- Multi-act shows too long for most uploaders
- No captions when the special goes online
✓ The set as text
Upload after the gig and read the whole set back on the way home.
- Full text in about 4 minutes
- Each comic and the host named in the summary and chapters
- A chapter for every bit
- Laughter and applause left out
- SRT and VTT captions with timestamps
- A week of four shows on one $6 pack
Sample output
The host bringing on the next act.
A made-up excerpt written for this page to illustrate the format. It is not from any real comedian, club or special.
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 $6 (500 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
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Two-hour comedy show recordings, answered.
How quickly is a 2-hour show transcribed?
About 4 minutes. A run of shows from a festival week can be uploaded together, and each one finishes independently. Comparing the same bit across several nights is then a matter of searching for its punchline.
What does a week of shows cost?
A 2-hour show is 120 minutes, so the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers four. Sixteen shows over a tour leg are 1,920 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Packs are one-time payments, and the minutes stay on the account.
Does it type out laughter or applause?
No. Laughs, applause and room noise are skipped, and only the speech is written down. A line delivered over a big laugh may lose a word or two, and the timestamp lets you check it.
What is the size limit for a filmed show?
Each file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before your first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB, and a bigger video starts once a pack is on the account. A 4K special that passes 5 GB can be sent as its audio track instead.
Does it work for shows in other languages?
Yes. Ninety-nine languages are detected automatically, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Tagalog. A set that switches between English and Tagalog is handled in one recording.
Which files come back, and who sees unreleased material?
The set exports as DOCX or TXT for rewriting, SRT or VTT for captions, and JSON. New material stays private. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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