Transcribe a Cantonese radio show and keep the archive searchable, episode by episode.
A 2-hour Cantonese radio show recorded in Canada is turned into Chinese text in about 4 minutes, with Cantonese detected automatically and the first 20 minutes free. Four weekly shows, 480 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500, and a back catalogue of forty 2-hour episodes fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
For the producer and the archive
Cantonese on air is fast, colloquial and full of English. The transcript keeps up with it.
The way hosts actually talk
Hosts drop English words into Cantonese constantly, from 'deadline' to street names. The show is detected as Cantonese and the English inside it is handled, so the text reads like the broadcast did.
Segments with times
Chapters split the show at the news, the guest interview, the phone-in and the community calendar, ready for cutting clips or a highlights episode.
Show notes from the brief
The brief gives each episode a thesis and takeaways and names the host and guests, a start for the episode page or the station's social post. Key quotes give a line or two in the guest's own words for a post or a promo.
The back catalogue at once
Paste the show's RSS feed or a Google Drive folder of past episodes. Big studio exports go through the upload page.
Where the archive stalls
Years of episodes exist, and nobody can find the one where a guest explained the property tax change.
✗ Audio-only archive
Episodes sit as MP3s named by date, and every search starts with a guess and an hour of listening. New producers inherit the archive with no map of it, and the best interviews from past years never get a second airing.
- No way to search past episodes
- Guest quotes retyped by ear
- Show notes written in a hurry
- English-only tools that cannot read Cantonese
- Songs and talk mixed in one file
- Clips cut by scrubbing the waveform
✓ Each episode as text
The archive becomes Chinese text you can search, quote and clip from. Producers search across episodes for a guest, a topic or a street name, cut clips from the chapters, and turn the strongest interviews into a highlights hour. Listeners who missed a segment can be sent its text.
- About 4 minutes per 2-hour show
- Chapters at each segment
- Host and guests named in the summary
- Dates and numbers said on air listed
- SRT for captioned video clips
- Forty episodes on $24
Sample output
A Cantonese phone-in, colloquial and mixed with English.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from any station or host. In English: 'Good evening everyone, welcome to tonight's show'; 'Next caller, please go ahead'; 'Property tax is going up again this year'; 'After the news we'll talk about the weekend markets.'
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Cantonese radio recordings, answered.
How fast is a 2-hour Cantonese show transcribed?
About 4 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 3-hour weekend show takes about 6.
Does the transcript use colloquial Cantonese characters?
Cantonese is written in Chinese characters, and spoken shows lean on colloquial words and particles that formal writing avoids. How a host's style comes through varies, so run the first 20 minutes of one episode free and read it before buying a pack for the archive.
What do a month and an archive cost?
A weekly 2-hour show is 120 minutes, so four, 480 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500. Sixteen episodes, 1,920 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000, and forty, 4,800 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000. Credits never expire, so an archive can be worked through over months.
Will a studio WAV upload?
A 16-bit stereo WAV at 44.1 kHz is about 635 MB an hour, so a 2-hour show is near 1.3 GB, inside the 2 GB allowed before a first pack. The box on this page takes up to 500 MB, and bigger files continue on the main upload page. An MP3 export is far smaller.
Are songs and ads in the text?
Songs and jingles are music and are not transcribed. Spoken ad reads are speech, so they appear. The phone-in parts come through as long as the caller's audio is audible on the recording.
Who can see the episodes?
Only your account. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON.
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