Transcribe a 4-hour seminar so the discussion survives the afternoon.
A 4-hour seminar is 240 minutes of audio and comes back as text in about 8 minutes; recorded on a phone or table recorder it is typically 100 to 250 MB, and a hybrid Zoom recording is often 0.5 to 2 GB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
An afternoon of argument
Four hours of several people thinking aloud, kept in sequence.
Record the room, not the lectern
A seminar's value is in the replies. A recorder or phone in the middle of the table hears the far end better than one at the chair's seat, and a hybrid session saved from Zoom or Teams as an audio file is light to upload. Larger recordings continue on the upload page.
Contributors named where it counts
Participants are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so a reader can follow which position the second discussant held and who raised the objection about method, without working through four hours line by line.
Chapters per paper or question
Long seminars usually take several papers or one text in sections. Chapters land at those turns with timestamps, the brief gives the thesis and the takeaways, and the works and authors cited are listed for whoever compiles the reading list afterwards.
A term of seminars, priced
A weekly 4-hour seminar for a month is 960 minutes on the $18 pack. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Keeping a long discussion
Minutes from a four-hour seminar rarely keep the argument.
✗ The note-taker's version
Someone at the table writes while trying to take part, and the record ends up one page long and one-sided.
- Replies summarised as 'discussion followed'
- Citations heard once and lost
- Free tools that give up inside an hour
- A hybrid recording split into parts
- No way to find where a point was first made
- Late-afternoon contributions thinned out
✓ The seminar on the page
Every contribution in order, with the clock of the room.
- About 8 minutes to text
- Discussants named in the summary
- Chapters at each paper
- A list of works and names cited
- Questions the seminar answered
- DOCX for the circulated record
Sample
An exchange in the third hour.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real seminar, people or papers are quoted.
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
4-hour seminars: common questions.
How long does it take to transcribe a 4-hour seminar?
About 8 minutes for 240 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Close the tab if you like; your Library holds the transcript when it is done.
What does a seminar series cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. A month of weekly sessions is 960 minutes, inside the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes with 2,040 to spare. Packs are one-time purchases, and unused credits stay on the account.
Will it tell participants apart?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, using the names people say in the room. The transcript text itself reads as continuous paragraphs, so a seminar where everyone introduces themselves at the start comes out clearest.
The recording is a 4-hour WAV of 2.5 GB. Is that a problem?
A 16-bit stereo WAV of four hours at 44.1 kHz is about 2.5 GB, so before the first pack it waits until a pack is on the account; the per-file ceiling is 5 GB. An MP3 or M4A copy of the same seminar is under 250 MB and starts at once.
What if the seminar runs all day?
One file can hold up to 10 hours, so a long day stays in one transcript. A two-day symposium recorded as one continuous file over 10 hours needs splitting into two files, ideally at a break.
Which languages and exports are available, and is it private?
99 languages are detected automatically; a seminar that moves between two languages is detected on its main one. Download the seminar as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. A seminar you upload is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
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