Transcribe a 90-minute book club and keep the conversation, not just the reading list.
A 90-minute book club meeting takes about 3 minutes to transcribe, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, and a phone voice memo of that length is typically 40 to 90 MB. One meeting uses 90 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack, and the opening minutes are a free preview.
From the living room to the club archive
The argument about the ending, the quote someone read aloud and next month's pick.
A phone on the coffee table
Most book clubs record on a phone's voice memo app placed in the middle of the group, or on Zoom when members join from home. A ninety-minute voice memo is usually 40 to 90 MB as M4A; a Zoom recording is a little larger. Both upload directly from a phone or a laptop.
Ready in about three minutes
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so ninety minutes of conversation is text in roughly three. Long tangents about the author's other books are kept too, because they were said.
A reading year, priced
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. A club meeting monthly for a year uses 1,080 minutes and fits the $18 pack of 3,000 with 1,920 left. Split the cost between eight members and it is less than a paperback each, once, with no subscription.
What comes back
The brief gives the main threads of the discussion and the takeaways. Characters, chapters, page numbers and dates mentioned are listed. Members are named in the summary and key quotes, so the club newsletter can credit the person who made the best point. The chat answers 'what did we say about the narrator?'
Why good discussions disappear
Everyone remembers the evening was great. Nobody remembers what was said.
✗ No record at all
The conversation happens, the wine runs out, and next month nobody can recall how the debate ended.
- Absent members miss the whole discussion
- The newsletter written from vague memories
- A great reading aloud lost for good
- Arguments repeated at the next meeting
- No list of books the club has covered
- A recording on a phone, never played
✓ The club's own archive
Each meeting in writing, easy to share with members who missed it.
- Text in about 3 minutes
- A free preview of the opening minutes to start
- Packs from $4 for 300 minutes
- Page references in the brief
- Members credited in key quotes
- DOCX for the newsletter
Sample
Halfway through a monthly book club.
These lines are illustrative and were written for this page; no real club or member is quoted. Timestamps run from the start of the voice memo.
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
Ninety-minute book clubs, the usual questions.
How long does a 90-minute book club take to transcribe?
About 3 minutes. Processing takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so the transcript is ready before the dishes are done.
What does it cost for a whole year?
Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Twelve monthly meetings are 1,080 minutes, on the $18 pack of 3,000. There is no subscription, and credits never expire.
Everyone talks at once. Will it cope?
Overlapping voices are the hardest part of a lively group. The person closest to the phone comes through best; a phone in the middle of the table and one conversation at a time help. Laughter and background music are not transcribed.
Should we tell members we are recording?
Yes, ask the group first and say what the transcript is for, such as a newsletter or notes for people who missed the meeting. Anyone can ask for a part to be left out of what you share.
Our club reads in Spanish or French. Does it work?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, so a club meeting in Spanish, French or Hebrew needs no setting. Book titles and quotes in English inside the discussion are handled.
Which exports are there, and where does the audio go?
Download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. The meeting is transcribed on our own servers and is never used to train any model; you can delete it whenever you wish.
Related
Group conversations and long recordings
Upload the meeting. Share the discussion with everyone who missed it.
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