Transcribe a 4-hour panel discussion and quote the panellists accurately in the write-up.
A 4-hour panel discussion is 240 minutes of audio and comes back as timestamped text in about 8 minutes; the audio is typically 120 to 250 MB, while a multi-camera video of the session often runs 1.5 to 4 GB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For event teams, editors and researchers
Several voices over four hours, sorted into a text you can quote from.
Every voice in the summary
Panels are hard to follow from a recording because five people take turns. The panellists and the moderator are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so a write-up can attribute each argument to the person who made it.
From the stream or the venue
A panel streamed on YouTube or Vimeo goes in by link, with no file to move. A venue recording from a mixing desk, a camera or a Zoom webinar is downloaded and uploaded. The upload box on this page takes files up to 500 MB, and a larger video continues on the main upload page.
Quotes and claims gathered
The brief pulls the thesis of the discussion, the main points of disagreement, the figures and dates quoted, and the questions the audience asked. Each key quote carries its timestamp, so it can be checked against the audio before it is published.
A programme of panels
One 4-hour panel session uses 240 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack. A year-long series of twenty sessions, 4,800 minutes, fits the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes.
Why panels go unreported
Four hours, five voices, and the best line was in hour three.
✗ Reporting from memory
Writers paraphrase from scribbled notes, and quotes drift from what was actually said.
- Quotes reconstructed from notes
- Arguments credited to the wrong panellist
- Audience questions never recorded
- Hours of video to find one exchange
- Write-ups a week after the event
- Tools that choke on long files
✓ Reporting from the text
The recording comes back as searchable text with every panellist named in the summary and key quotes.
- About 8 minutes for the full session
- Panels and Q&A as chapters
- Panellists named in the summary
- Key quotes with timestamps
- DOCX for the write-up, SRT for the video
- 260 minutes or more kept
Sample
Lines from a long panel session.
Illustrative text written for this page; no real event, organisation or panellist is involved. Timestamps start at zero when the recording does.
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
Long panel discussions: common questions.
How long does a 4-hour panel take to transcribe?
Around 8 minutes, because audio is processed at roughly 2 minutes per hour. A livestream link starts processing as soon as it is pasted.
How are the panellists identified?
Panellists and the moderator are identified and named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters. For a write-up, the key quotes with their timestamps are usually what you need, and the full text sits underneath for context.
Which pack fits a whole conference of panels?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Six 4-hour sessions, 1,440 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
Our video file is 3.8 GB. Can I upload it?
Yes, since a file can be up to 5 GB with or without a pack. Exporting the audio alone, or pasting the YouTube or Vimeo link, avoids the size question entirely.
Can we caption the session video?
Yes. SRT and VTT exports come from the same pass as TXT, DOCX and JSON, timed to the recording, so they can be added to the published video.
What if the panel and the keynote were recorded as one long file?
A file of up to 10 hours or 5 GB goes in as one. For separate write-ups, upload the panel and the keynote as two files so each has its own brief and chapters.
Related
Other panel and conference recordings
Upload the panel recording. The opening minutes, free, before any pack.
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