Transcribe a 3-hour seminar series so every session joins the same searchable record.
Each 3-hour seminar in a series is 180 minutes of audio and comes back as timestamped text in about 6 minutes; an audio file of one session is usually 100 to 200 MB, and a 1080p video of it is often between 1 and 2 GB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For organisers and participants
A run of long seminars, kept as one body of text instead of a shelf of video files.
Where the sessions come from
Seminar series are usually captured as a Zoom or Teams cloud recording, a lecture-hall capture system, a camera on a tripod, or a phone beside the chair. Download the session file and upload it, or paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link if the series is posted there. A whole Drive folder of sessions can go in as one link.
Six minutes per session
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 180-minute session is text in roughly 6 minutes. You can upload session four while session three is still processing; each one lands in your Library when it finishes.
A brief for every meeting of the series
Every session gets its own thesis and takeaways, timestamped chapters for the opening paper, the response and the open discussion, and a list of the names, numbers, dates and references mentioned. The chat answers a question across one session, with the timestamp to replay.
The series arithmetic
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Twelve sessions reach 2,160 minutes and move to the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so a series that pauses for a term keeps its balance.
Why a series loses its thread
By session five, nobody can find what was argued in session two.
✗ A folder of recordings
Each session sits as a long video, and the links between them live only in people's memory.
- Three hours of video per session to search
- References from earlier sessions lost
- Latecomers to the series start blind
- Questions from the floor never written down
- Notes taken by whoever volunteered
- Size limits that stop at the first hour
✓ A series on paper
Each session goes in as one file and returns with chapters, a brief and exports you can file next to the others.
- About 6 minutes per 180-minute session
- Talks and discussion as chapters
- Presenters named in the summary
- Names, dates and references listed
- DOCX ready for a series reader
- 920 minutes left after six sessions
Sample
A few lines from the middle of a seminar session.
Illustrative text written for this page; it is not from a real seminar, school or speaker. Times count from the start of that session's 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
Seminar series: the questions organisers ask.
How long does one 3-hour seminar take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Close the tab if you like; the transcript waits in your Library, and you can start the next session's upload straight away.
Should I upload the whole series as one file?
No. Upload each session separately so each gets its own brief, chapters and exports. One file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB, but a series reads far better as separate documents, and a recording over 10 hours has to be split anyway.
Which pack fits our series?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. The opening minutes are a free preview.
The session video is 2.4 GB. What do I do?
Files up to 5 GB upload with or without a pack on the account. The upload box on this page takes files up to 500 MB, and a larger file continues on the main upload page. Exporting the audio track alone shrinks a 3-hour session to a couple of hundred megabytes.
Some sessions are in another language. Is that fine?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, so a guest seminar in Spanish or German needs no setting. English terms inside another language are handled, and a session that switches language is detected on its main language.
Can presenters see their sessions are kept private?
Session recordings are transcribed on our own servers, and none of them is ever used for training. Delete any session file and its transcript from your Library when your series policy says to.
Related
Other seminar and series pages
Start with session one. The opening minutes are a free preview.
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