Transcribe court and tribunal hearings in Japan from opening to adjournment.
A recorded hearing day from Japan of up to 10 hours goes in as one file and comes back in about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 7-hour day is ready in roughly 14 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of a 7-hour day. The result is an AI transcript with timestamps to work from, not a certified court transcript.
A hearing day, handled whole
The morning session, the afternoon and the ruling, all on one clock.
Seven hours, fourteen minutes
At about 2 minutes per audio hour, a 7-hour hearing finishes in roughly 14 minutes. A public run on our proof page took 9.31 hours of audio through in 1,033 seconds. You can leave the tab; the text waits in your Library.
No cutting at the lunch recess
One file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. A recorder left running from the opening to the close of a long day usually stays inside that, so the timestamps run from the first word to the last without a second file to line up.
The arithmetic for one day
Seven hours is 420 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500, so one day fits with 80 minutes left over. Two hearing days of that length come to 840 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers with room for more.
Find the exchange you need
Chapters with timestamps split the day into its parts, the names, numbers and dates said aloud are pulled out, and a chat over the transcript answers a question such as when a document was first mentioned. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Why hearing recordings stall
A full day is too long for most tools and too long to type.
✗ Where a hearing day gets stuck
Short-file tools and manual typing both break down on a recording that runs from morning to evening.
- Upload caps far below a day of audio
- Splitting the file and losing the clock
- Days of typing for one hearing
- No way to search for a name or date
- A plain block of text with no structure
- A monthly plan for a one-off hearing
✓ One upload for the whole day
The recording goes in once and the day comes back as a single searchable document.
- The hearing day kept as one file
- Roughly 2 minutes for each recorded hour
- Chapters that follow the sessions
- Names, numbers and dates listed
- $6 for 500 minutes, no subscription
- Export to DOCX for your own notes
Sample
A hearing, as it might come back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from a real hearing. It is shown in English; a Japanese recording comes back in Japanese.
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
Hearing recordings from Japan, the common questions.
How long does a full hearing day take to transcribe?
Roughly 2 minutes for every hour recorded. A 5-hour hearing is usually ready in around 10 minutes and a 9-hour day in about 18. Close the page if you like; the transcript is saved to your Library when it finishes.
What does a 7-hour hearing cost?
Seven hours is 420 minutes, which fits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 80 to spare. A first-time visitor sees the first 20 minutes free, and the pack transcribes the rest from where that preview ended. If you expect several hearing days, the $12 pack holds 2,000 minutes, a little over 33 hours.
Is there a file size limit for the recording?
A single hearing file may run to 10 hours and weigh up to 5 GB. Before the first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB, and a larger file starts once a pack is on the account. An audio-only recording of a day is usually far smaller than a video one.
The hearing ran longer than 10 hours. What then?
Send it as two files. Cut at a natural break such as the lunch recess or an adjournment, upload both, and each comes back with its own timestamps.
Is this an official court record?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps for reading, searching and preparing from, not a certified court transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter and not legal advice. Whether you may record a hearing, or hold a copy of a recording, is a question for the rules that apply to you.
Which languages and exports are available, and where does the audio go?
Japanese is detected automatically among 99 languages, and a hearing held mostly in Japanese with some English is transcribed on its main language. The transcript downloads as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, and DOCX suits annotated working notes. Hearing audio stays with us alone: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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