Transcribe a Bikol radio program and keep every caller's point on record.
A 2.5-hour Bikol talk programme recorded off air or from the station's stream becomes searchable text in about 5 minutes, and the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes holds thirteen programmes of that length. Bikol comes back as a fast first draft that needs one review pass by a Bikol speaker, while English and Tagalog segments come back cleanly. If this is your first visit, the first 20 minutes free come before any pack is needed.
For broadcasters and researchers
A morning block is two or three hours of talk that airs once. The text lets you come back to it.
What the hosts and callers argued
The brief opens with the main issue the programme took on and the positions put forward, so a producer can write the episode log without listening through the whole block again.
Figures said on air
Prices quoted by callers, barangay names, dates of announcements and phone numbers read for listeners are collected with the minute each was said. Phone numbers and prices are the kind of detail worth checking against the audio before you publish them.
Segments become chapters
News, the commentary, the open line, the public service announcements: chapters mark where each segment starts, so a three-hour block reads like a rundown.
Recorded any way
An off-air capture from a radio, a recording of the station's online stream, or the program's archive file from the studio: each uploads as audio or video. Off-air captures with a weak signal transcribe less well than a clean stream recording, so use the stream when you have the choice.
Why the archive goes unused
A station can keep years of recordings and still be unable to find what was said last Tuesday.
✗ An audio archive only
Broadcast recordings pile up as long files named by date. Finding one caller's complaint means guessing the day and scrubbing through hours of talk and music. Producers who need a quote for a follow-up story end up asking the host what was said, because nobody has time to scrub through a morning of audio.
- Files named only by date and time slot
- Jingles and ads between every segment
- A complaint you cannot locate for a follow-up
- No text to quote in a news write-up
- Off-air captures with hiss and fading signal
- Bikol, Tagalog and English in one hour
✓ A text archive beside it
Each programme gets a brief, chapters and searchable text, so the audio becomes something you can look things up in. The text sits next to the audio, so a researcher studying regional media or a producer preparing a follow-up can find the passage first and then listen to that minute only.
- A summary of each block's main issue
- Callers' points with timestamps
- Segment chapters in broadcast order
- Names and figures said on air, listed
- Captions for a replay posted online
- Search across a month of shows
Sample output
An open-line segment in Bikol and English.
These are illustrative lines composed for this page; they are not taken from any real station, host or caller.
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
Bikol radio recordings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour block take?
About 5 minutes. On the public speed page, a 2.48-hour recording finished in 200 seconds, and a 9.31-hour one in 1,033 seconds, so even a whole broadcast day in one file is ready within the half hour.
What does a month of daily programmes cost?
A 2.5-hour block is 150 minutes. Six programmes a week make 900 minutes, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers two weeks with 200 left. Twenty-six programmes in a month come to 3,900 minutes and belong on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Because credits never expire, a pack bought for one month's broadcasts can carry over to the next.
How big is a recording of the stream?
An MP3 saved at 128 kbps uses 16 KB per second, so 2.5 hours (9,000 seconds) is about 144 MB. Files up to 2 GB upload before your first pack, and up to 5 GB once a pack is on the account.
Do I have to trim out the ads and music first?
No. Music, jingles and sound effects are not transcribed; the speech around them is. Upload the whole block and the chapters will show where each talk segment starts. Only a capture running past 10 hours has to go in as two files.
The station also posts the program online. Can I use that?
If it is on YouTube, paste the link and nothing needs uploading. A Facebook Live replay has to be downloaded first and then uploaded as a file. Bikol, Tagalog and English are all detected without a setting, and a programme that switches between them is handled.
What formats come out, and who hears the broadcast?
Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, with the timestamps kept in each. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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