Transcribe a 5-hour seminar with every talk and question kept.
A 5-hour seminar is 300 minutes of audio and returns as timestamped text in about 10 minutes; a lecture-capture video of that length is usually 1 to 3 GB, and an audio recording a few hundred megabytes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
A long seminar, start to finish
Five hours of talks and discussion, in a form you can study and cite.
From the room or from the stream
Academic seminars, professional development days and intensive study sessions get recorded on lecture capture, a phone on the lectern, or a webinar platform. Upload the MP4, M4A, MP3 or WAV, or paste the YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link if the organiser shared one.
About ten minutes
Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, so 300 minutes is usually done in about 10. A seminar that closes at five can be read, quoted and summarised before the evening is out.
Structured like the programme
Chapters follow the order of the day: each presentation, the discussion after it and the closing Q&A. The brief sets out the main argument and takeaways, lists the terms, figures and references that were mentioned, and the chat answers a question such as which study the third speaker cited.
A seminar series, costed
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire, so a series that runs across a term uses the same pack.
Why seminar notes fall short
Five hours of ideas, and notes that stop after the second talk.
✗ Notes by hand
Attention drops by the afternoon, and the discussion is the part that never gets written down.
- Notes that thin out by hour three
- Q&A remembered only in outline
- Rewatching hours of lecture capture
- References you cannot place
- Tools that stop at one hour
- Splitting the recording to upload it
✓ The seminar in text
One file goes in and comes back as a document that follows the programme.
- About 10 minutes for 300 minutes
- Each talk and Q&A as a chapter
- Presenters named in the summary
- Terms and references listed with times
- DOCX for study notes, SRT for the video
- 200 minutes kept for the next session
Sample
Lines from a 5-hour seminar.
Illustrative: written for this page, not taken from a real seminar or speaker. Times are counted from the opening remarks.
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 seminar, the common questions.
How long does a 5-hour seminar take to transcribe?
Around ten minutes; five hours at about two minutes each. Leave the page whenever you like; the transcript lands in your Library.
What does 300 minutes cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and the pack carries on from where that preview stopped. Packs are one-time purchases.
Can I upload the lecture-capture video directly?
Yes. A file up to 5 GB uploads before you buy a pack, and the same once a pack is on the account. If the video is larger than that, export the audio, which for five hours is a few hundred megabytes.
Does it handle technical vocabulary and other languages?
Specialist terms are transcribed as spoken, and the brief lists the ones that recur. 99 languages are detected automatically, and English terms inside a talk in another language are handled. A seminar that switches language is detected on its main language.
Is the audience Q&A included?
Questions from the floor are transcribed when they reach the microphone or the room recording. If attendees spoke without a microphone, they may be faint, so it helps when the chair repeats the question.
Which formats come out?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one pass, plus the brief, chapters and a chat over the transcript. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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