Transcribe a 3-hour CPA review lecture and study it as text instead of rewinding.
A 3-hour CPA review lecture is 180 minutes of audio, and it is transcribed in about 6 minutes; the file is usually 150 to 200 MB as an MP3 and 1 to 4 GB as a video. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Three hours of exam prep
A review lecture is dense on purpose. Text lets you take it apart.
Where the recording comes from
Some candidates record a live review class on a phone, where the course allows it; others download the session video their provider makes available, or have a link to an instructor's YouTube upload. A file goes in the box here up to 500 MB, and a heavier video continues on the upload page. Paste a YouTube or Google Drive link and nothing has to upload from your side.
Chapters that follow the syllabus
Instructors move topic by topic: a standard, the rule, a worked problem, the trap the exam sets. Chapters tend to land at those turns with a timestamp, so the hour on leases or the half hour on basis adjustments opens directly, without dragging a progress bar.
Numbers you have to memorise
The brief lists the figures, percentages, dollar thresholds and dates the instructor says aloud, each tied to its moment in the recording. That list turns into flashcards quickly, and every item can be checked against the audio before you commit it to memory.
Ask the lecture a question
The chat answers over the full transcript: where the instructor walked through the deferred tax example, or what the mnemonic for the audit opinion types was. It points to the place in the lecture, so you can replay those ninety seconds instead of the whole block.
Reviewing without a transcript
Rewatching three hours to find one example costs a study evening.
✗ Video only
A review video is easy to start and hard to search, and handwritten notes miss the second half of every worked problem.
- Scrubbing for the one journal entry you need
- Notes that stop when the example speeds up
- Playback at double speed to save time
- No way to search a term across lectures
- Free tools that end after the first hour
- Figures copied wrong from a paused frame
✓ The lecture as a document
One file, one clock, and every rule and figure searchable.
- About 6 minutes for the full 180
- Chapters at each topic change
- Thresholds and dates listed with timestamps
- A brief with the takeaways per topic
- Search across every lecture you upload
- DOCX for annotating, SRT for the video
Sample
A few lines from a three-hour review block.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not taken from any real course, with times measured from the start of the 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
3-hour CPA review lectures, answered.
How long does a 3-hour CPA review lecture take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes. Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, and the public timing page shows a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds. Feel free to close the tab, because the finished text is saved to your Library.
What does it cost, and what about a whole section of lectures?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire, so the balance carries into the next section.
Can I transcribe lectures from my review course?
If you can download the session or legally record it, yes: upload the file or paste a YouTube or Google Drive link. Check your course terms first, because some providers do not allow recordings. Videos that only stream inside a course player cannot be fetched by link; download the recording if the course offers that, then upload it.
The lecture video is 3.2 GB. Will it go through?
Before the first pack, uploads go up to 5 GB; a file between 2 and 5 GB starts right away. An audio-only copy of the same three hours at 128 kbps is about 173 MB and uploads straight away.
Will the accounting terms and acronyms come out right?
Standard vocabulary, acronyms and section names such as FAR, AUD and REG usually come through, and English is detected automatically. Figures read fast during a worked problem are worth checking against the slide or the audio, which is what the timestamps are for. No transcript replaces the official exam materials.
Which exports do I get, and who sees the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. A 3-hour file stays one transcript, and a single file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so only a full-day bootcamp recorded past 10 hours needs splitting into two. Review-course recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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