Transcribe a 5-hour hearing and quote it with the timestamp.
A 5-hour hearing is 300 minutes of audio and comes back as timestamped text in about 10 minutes; the recording is typically around 300 MB as audio and 1 to 4 GB as video. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
A long hearing day
Five hours of testimony and argument, laid out so you can find each part.
Whatever kind of hearing
Administrative hearings, zoning and licensing hearings, legislative committee hearings and court hearings all run long, and the recording reaches you in different ways. Upload the audio or video file, or paste the YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link where it was posted.
Recesses do not break it
A five-hour hearing almost always stops for a recess or two. If the recording ran straight through, the pauses simply sit on the timeline; if it was saved in parts, upload each and they keep their own clocks. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so splitting is never required to fit.
Testimony you can find
Chapters mark the opening statements, each witness, the questioning from the panel and the closing remarks. The brief lists the names, figures and dates that came up, and the chat answers a question such as what the second witness said about the inspection, with the timestamp beside it.
The minutes it uses
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Waiting on a record
The hearing is over, and the record is still weeks out.
✗ Working from memory
Notes taken during a long hearing thin out by the afternoon, and the official record takes time.
- Notes that fade after the first hour
- Weeks before an official record
- Five hours of video to rewatch
- Tools that refuse long files
- No timestamp for a quote
- Separate files for each session
✓ Working from text
The full hearing goes in once and comes back as a document you can search and cite by time.
- About 10 minutes for 300 minutes
- Each witness as a chapter
- Witnesses and panel named in the summary
- Names, figures and dates listed
- DOCX for submissions, VTT for the video
- A further 200 minutes ready for day two
Sample
Moments from a 5-hour hearing.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not from a real hearing. Times are measured from the first second of the 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
A 5-hour hearing, the common questions.
How long does a 5-hour hearing take to transcribe?
Expect around ten minutes: the rate is close to two minutes for every hour recorded. The published proof run did 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds, at /proof/long-files.
What does it cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. On a first recording the opening minutes are a free preview, and the pack transcribes the rest from where the preview ended. There is no subscription.
Is this an official hearing transcript?
No. It is an AI transcript for working from: drafting summaries, preparing submissions and finding testimony. It is not a certified or official transcript and it is not legal advice.
The video file is over 2 GB. What now?
Files up to 5 GB upload before you buy a pack, and the same once a pack is on the account. A five-hour video can pass 5 GB, so export just the audio, or paste the link if the hearing was posted online.
Will it pick up witnesses on a remote link?
Anyone audible on the recording is transcribed, including people joining by video call, as long as their audio was captured in the room or the meeting recording. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
What can I download, and where is the file processed?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one pass; 99 languages are detected automatically. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Other long proceedings
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