Transcribe a 7-hour recording as one file, in about 14 minutes.
Yes, a 7-hour recording goes up as a single file, because one file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and at about 2 minutes per audio hour it comes back in roughly 14 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers all 420 minutes with at least 80 to spare.
Seven hours, start to finish
A full day on tape, handled like any other file.
Inside the limit with room left
A single file may run to 10 hours or 5 GB, so seven fits whole. Seven hours sits three hours under it, so a recorder that ran from the morning session to the late afternoon wrap-up needs no trimming before it goes up.
Fourteen minutes, give or take
Speed runs near 2 minutes per hour of audio. Our published run of 4.94 hours took 372 seconds, so seven hours lands around a quarter of an hour. Close the tab if you like; the result waits in your Library.
One small pack covers it
Seven hours is 420 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500, which is $0.72 an audio hour, and whatever is left stays on the account with no expiry date. There is nothing to cancel later.
A day you can move through
A transcript this long runs past sixty thousand words. Chapters with timestamps break it into the parts of the day, and a brief states the thesis and takeaways so you know which hour to open first.
Why seven hours goes wrong elsewhere
Most tools were sized for a meeting, not a working day.
✗ Cut, upload, stitch
A 7-hour file usually meets a cap of one or two hours, so it gets sliced into pieces and the timestamps restart in each.
- Four or more uploads for one day
- Clocks that reset at every cut
- Words lost at the seams
- A monthly plan for a single long file
- Hand typing at four hours per hour
- No map of which hour held what
✓ One file, one clock
Seven hours goes in as recorded and comes back as one document timed from the first second.
- About 14 minutes end to end
- First 20 minutes free
- 420 minutes on a $6 pack
- Each speaker named in summary, quotes and chapters
- Chapters across the whole day
- DOCX to edit, SRT to caption
Sample
Late in a seven-hour day, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative: we wrote it for this page, and it does not come from a real recording. Timestamps count from the start of the file, so a passage in the afternoon reads past the six-hour mark.
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
A 7-hour recording, the questions people ask.
Can I transcribe a 7-hour recording in one go?
Yes. One file can run to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, so seven hours is a single upload and a single transcript. There is no need to cut it into parts.
How long does a 7-hour file take to transcribe?
About 14 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A very noisy file or one with long silences can take a little longer. You can leave the page, and the transcript is in your Library when it finishes.
What does seven hours cost?
420 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500 minutes, so it covers the whole recording and leaves at least 80 minutes. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free before buying anything.
How big is a 7-hour file, and will it upload before I pay?
A 7-hour MP3 at 128 kbps is about 400 MB, and phone M4A files are often smaller, so they upload before a pack. Seven hours of CD-quality stereo WAV is about 4.4 GB, which is under the 5 GB ceiling but over 2 GB, so that version starts once a pack is on the account. A Twitch, Kick or YouTube Live VOD over 6 hours also starts once a pack is on the account.
What kinds of recordings run seven hours?
An all-day workshop, a deposition day, a long council or board session, a field recorder left running, a stream or a conference track. Each one is transcribed as speech; music and crowd noise in between are not written out.
Which languages and exports, and who can see the file?
99 languages are detected automatically. You can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from the same run. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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