Transcribe a 4-hour conference call Four hours of voices, one transcript.
A 4-hour conference call is 240 minutes: it is transcribed in about 8 minutes and uses 240 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack, leaving 260, so two calls of that length fit in one pack. Upload the recording the bridge or meeting tool saved, the first 20 minutes are free, and nothing joins the call.
Four hours on the line
What a long call needs from a transcript.
The recording you have
Phone-bridge services usually offer the recording as an MP3 or WAV download, and Zoom, Teams or Meet calls are downloaded from where they were saved and then uploaded. Check the service's recordings page for the export; nothing here connects to it.
Size at four hours
Phone audio is often stored at low bitrates: at 32 kbps mono, 240 minutes is about 58 MB; at 64 kbps, about 115 MB. A video meeting saved at 1.5 Mbps is about 2.7 GB, which starts once a pack is on the account. Large files go through the upload page.
Phone lines sound thinner
Dial-in callers come through a narrow phone channel, and people talk over each other on long calls. The text still follows the speech, but plan to check names, figures and anything quoted against the recording, using the timestamps.
Who committed to what
The brief states the purpose and outcomes of the call, chapters split it by topic with timestamps, and callers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so each commitment has a name. The figures and dates said are listed together.
Marathon calls
Why four-hour calls go unrecorded in writing.
✗ A long call, a short memory
After four hours everyone remembers the last thirty minutes and a different version of the first.
- Notes that fade by the second hour
- A notetaker bot that must join the call
- Tools that cap a session at an hour or two
- Bridge recordings nobody can search
- Commitments without a name next to them
- Replaying hours to settle one point
✓ A call you can quote
The recording afterwards, turned into text with the outcomes on top.
- 240 minutes in one upload
- About 8 minutes to text
- Callers named in the summary
- Commitments and dates listed
- DOCX for the follow-up email
- 260 pack minutes left over
Sample output
Three hours into a long conference call.
Illustrative excerpt, not a real call. Phone-line audio is transcribed the same way as a meeting room.
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
4-hour conference calls, answered.
How long does a 4-hour conference call take to transcribe?
About 8 minutes for 240 minutes of audio. A low-bitrate MP3 from a phone bridge uploads in moments, so the processing is most of the wait.
What does a 4-hour call cost, and how many fit in a pack?
One call uses 240 minutes of the $6 pack (500 minutes), leaving 260, so two fit with 20 minutes over. A shorter 100-minute call would use 100 minutes, and five of those fit in the same pack. A weekly 4-hour call for a month is 960 minutes, which fits the $12 pack (2,000 minutes). The first 20 minutes of your first call are free.
Is a 4-hour recording too big to upload?
Audio from a call almost never is. The limit is 10 hours or 5 GB per file, and before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload. Only a video recording of a long call usually passes 2 GB, and it starts once a pack is on the account.
The bridge split the call into several recordings. What now?
Upload each recording as its own file. A call that dropped and was restarted often leaves two or three files; each gets its own transcript, chapters and timestamps.
Can it handle callers in different languages?
The main language of the call is detected automatically among 99. A call that switches between English and Tagalog is handled, and calls held in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean or Hebrew need no setting.
Which exports come back, and is the call kept private?
The call exports to TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Call recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
More for long calls and meetings.
Four hours on the call. About eight minutes to text.
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