Transcribe a Bikol thesis interview for the appendix and the analysis.
A one-hour thesis interview in Bikol comes back as timestamped text in about 2 minutes, and the first 20 minutes of it are free. Bikol is supported, though accuracy is below English and Tagalog, so read the result as a fast first draft and do one review pass before it goes in your appendix. Eight one-hour interviews fit on a $6 pack of 500 minutes.
What an interview gets here
Your respondent's words, in order and on the clock, ready to check.
Two minutes an hour
An interview of 45 minutes is ready in under 2 minutes, and a two-hour conversation with an elder or a municipal official in about 4. You can upload the next one while the first is running.
Your study, priced by the minute
Eight one-hour interviews are 480 minutes and fit inside a $6 pack of 500. Fifteen of them, or a mix of longer ones up to 2,000 minutes, sit on the $12 pack, and because credits never expire a delayed defense costs nothing extra.
Appendix and analysis from one file
DOCX gives you a document for the appendix with timestamps you can keep or strip. The brief, chapters and key quotes help you find the passages you will cite in your results chapter, and speakers are identified and named in the summary, quotes and chapters.
Ask your interview
The chat over the transcript answers questions such as where the respondent described the typhoon season or the cost of fertilizer, and it returns the moment so you can quote the exact words.
Why transcription stalls a thesis
The interviews are done. The appendix is not.
✗ Typing every interview
Student researchers can spend more time typing interviews than conducting them, replaying each Bikol phrase until it makes sense.
- Hours of typing for each interview
- Replaying fast Bikol answers
- Mixed-language lines typed twice
- Timestamps added by hand
- A defense date that does not move
- No quick way to find a quote
✓ A draft to correct, not a page to type
You start from text that is already in order and on the clock, and your time goes into checking instead of typing.
- About 2 minutes per interview hour
- First 20 minutes free
- Eight hours on a $6 pack
- DOCX ready for the appendix
- Key quotes pulled out
- Delete the audio after your defense
Sample
A thesis interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from a real respondent. Your own transcript may spell Bikol words differently.
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 thesis interviews, the common questions.
How quickly will my interview be transcribed?
At about 2 minutes per audio hour: under 2 minutes for a 45-minute interview, about 4 for two hours.
How much will all my thesis interviews cost?
Multiply interviews by length. Twelve interviews of 90 minutes are 1,080 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 covers; six of them are 540 minutes, just over the $6 pack, so the $12 pack is the safer buy.
My interview was recorded on a phone. Will the file upload?
Phone voice recordings are small next to the limits: up to 2 GB uploads before a pack, and one file can be 10 hours or 5 GB.
Should I cut the small talk before uploading?
No need to cut anything. Upload the whole recording as one file and trim the opening in the DOCX afterwards; the remaining timestamps still match the audio.
My respondent switched between Bikol, Tagalog and English. Is that a problem?
No. Each part is written in the language spoken, in order, with no language to select. The transcript is not translated, so add your English translation as a separate column if your panel wants one.
Which exports can I download, and what happens to the recording?
All five formats, TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, are yours. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when your ethics form promises confidentiality. Delete the audio and transcript when the study ends.
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