Transcribe a 9-hour recording without cutting it in half.
A 9-hour recording is one file here, since the limit per file is 10 hours or 5 GB, and at about 2 minutes per audio hour it is ready in roughly 18 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free; the 540 minutes are more than the $6 pack's 500, so it runs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 1,460 left.
Nine hours, checked
One hour under the ceiling, and we have timed a file longer than yours.
Measured, not promised
Our public proof page lists a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds, a little over 17 minutes. Your nine hours should land in the same range; a rough recording can take longer.
Why it is the $12 pack
Nine hours is 540 minutes, which overshoots the $6 pack by 40. The $12 pack holds 2,000 minutes at $0.36 an audio hour, so after this file about 24 hours of credit remain, with no expiry and no subscription.
Watch the WAV
Nine hours of stereo WAV at CD quality is about 5.7 GB, which is over the 5 GB ceiling. Export it as MP3 or M4A first, or as mono WAV, and the same nine hours drops well under the line.
Find the hour you need
The brief gives the thesis and takeaways, chapters mark each segment with its timestamp, and the names, numbers and dates are listed. Ask the chat a question and it answers from the transcript.
Why nine hours breaks other tools
Nine hours is long enough to hit every limit there is.
✗ Limits everywhere
Upload caps, length caps and session timeouts all show up somewhere in nine hours of audio.
- A length cap at two or three hours
- Five uploads with five clocks
- A browser tab that times out
- Monthly minutes gone in one file
- Two working weeks to type it
- No index into the long middle
✓ Nine hours as one job
The file goes up as recorded and the transcript keeps one timeline from the first word to the last.
- About 18 minutes for the whole file
- First 20 minutes free
- $12 for 2,000 minutes, credits keep
- Speaker names in the brief and key quotes
- Chapters across all nine hours
- One run, five export formats
Sample
Hour eight of a long session, as it comes back.
The lines below are illustrative, written for this page rather than taken from any recording. The late timestamps show where a passage sits inside nine hours.
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 9-hour recording, answered.
Can a 9-hour recording be transcribed as one file?
Yes. The limit per file is 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. Nine hours is under both for most formats, so it is one upload and one transcript. That transcript keeps one clock from the first second to the last, so a timestamp in hour eight points straight at the audio.
How long will nine hours take?
Around 18 minutes, at about 2 minutes per audio hour. The proof page shows a 9.31-hour file done in 1,033 seconds. Closing the page does not stop it.
How much is it to transcribe 9 hours?
540 minutes, which is 40 more than the $6 pack holds. Buy the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes and 1,460 minutes remain after this file. A first-time visitor pays nothing for the first 20 minutes.
My 9-hour file is over 5 GB. What now?
It is almost always uncompressed WAV or high-bitrate video. Export the audio as MP3 or M4A, which brings nine hours to roughly 500 MB, and upload that. Files between 2 GB and 5 GB upload too, once a pack is on the account.
What if the recording is closer to ten and a half hours?
Then it is over the 10-hour line, so cut it at a pause into two files and upload both. A 9-hour file has an hour of headroom, so most recorders that ran a little long still fit.
Which languages, which exports, and what happens to the audio?
99 languages, detected automatically. The nine hours download as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete both file and transcript whenever you choose.
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