Transcribe a 3-hour podcast with show notes written from the text.
A three-hour podcast episode is 180 minutes of audio, and it comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free. The $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the episode and keeps at least 320 minutes for the next ones. Paste the episode's RSS or YouTube link, or upload the exported file.
What three hours of conversation becomes
Three hours of conversation, ready for show notes, quotes and captions.
From the feed or the file
An episode that is already published can come straight from its RSS feed or its YouTube upload, with nothing to download. If it is still in the edit, export the mixed episode and drop that file here.
Chapters that become show notes
Long conversations wander, and listeners want to know where each topic starts. The chapters arrive with timestamps you can paste into the episode description, and the brief states the main argument and takeaways in a few lines.
Quotes with the speaker attached
Host and guests are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. That gives you the lines worth posting, with the minute each was said, so you can pull the audio for them in your own editor.
One episode, then the back catalogue
180 minutes uses part of a $6 pack and leaves at least 320. A month of four weekly three-hour episodes is 720 minutes, which sits on the $12 pack of 2,000 with 1,280 to spare for older episodes worth transcribing.
Why three-hour episodes trip up other tools
Long-form shows are longer than most tools expect.
✗ Where it usually stalls
Tools built for short clips tend to choke on a full long-form episode, or charge as if every hour were a separate job.
- A length limit far below three hours
- Splitting the episode at every break
- Show notes written from memory
- Captions stitched from three part-files
- A subscription just to cover a weekly show
- No way to search last year's episodes
✓ The episode as one text
One upload or one link gives the full conversation, the chapters and the quotes.
- About 6 minutes for the 180 minutes
- Twenty free minutes before you buy
- Timestamped chapters for the episode page
- The guest named in the summary and key quotes
- SRT and VTT captions for the video cut
- Packs bought once, no subscription
Sample
A long-form episode, as text.
This sample is illustrative: the dialogue was written for this page and comes from no real show. Timestamps run from the top of the episode.
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
Three-hour podcasts, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour podcast take?
Expect about 6 minutes, since the pace is roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A published 2.48-hour run took 200 seconds, and it is listed on /proof/long-files.
What does a 3-hour podcast cost to transcribe?
180 minutes on the $6 pack of 500, which leaves at least 320 minutes, enough for one more three-hour episode with 140 to spare. A weekly show that wants every episode transcribed is better served by the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, or $0.36 an audio hour.
How big is a 3-hour podcast file?
As a typical MP3 it is around 170 MB, well inside the 2 GB that uploads before a pack. A stereo WAV master of three hours lands near 2 GB, so export the mixed MP3 or wait until a pack is on the account. A video podcast at 1080p is usually several gigabytes, and its YouTube link avoids the upload.
Do I need to split the episode into parts?
No. A single file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so a three-hour episode goes in whole. Only a marathon episode longer than 10 hours needs to be sent as two files.
What about the intro music and the ad breaks?
The intro music and sound effects are left out; only speech becomes text. Read ads are speech, so they appear in the text, and the chapters make them easy to skip when you write the notes. 99 languages are detected automatically, including Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese shows.
Which formats come out, and is the unreleased episode private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one run, so the same transcript serves the website, the captions and a search index. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so an episode in the edit stays unreleased.
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