Transcribe an Afrikaans interview quote by quote.

About 4 minutes. A 90-minute interview takes about 3, and a 3-hour life story interview about 6. A journalist can send the interview from the car and be choosing quotes before reaching the newsroom.

Twenty interviews of 90 minutes come to 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. A smaller pilot of five 90-minute interviews is 450 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Prices are in US dollars and credits do not expire between fieldwork trips. Credits come off the account minute by minute, so a short follow-up interview uses only its own length.

Yes. The interview is detected on its main language and switches into English are handled. There is no language menu to set before the upload. Dialect words and expressions from different regions are transcribed as heard; the timestamp lets you hear them again before you gloss them in a thesis.

Any one interview file may be up to 10 hours long or 5 GB in size. Before the first pack, uploads are accepted up to 2 GB; anything bigger starts once a pack is on the account. A phone recording of 2 hours is usually well under 200 MB, so even long interviews go up quickly on a mobile connection.

Use the timestamp to check the exact words against the recording first, especially names and dialect expressions. The transcript is a working text that makes that check quick. For a direct quote in print, that check is the step an editor or a supervisor will expect anyway.

Researchers usually take the DOCX for coding; TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON are there too. Delete an interview and its transcript from your Library when the project no longer needs them. Ethics committees often ask where recordings go: they are transcribed on our own servers, never used for training, and deleted when you delete them.