Transcribe court and tribunal hearing recordings in the UK as a working text the same day.
A court or tribunal hearing recording from the UK comes back as a timestamped transcript at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 6-hour hearing day takes roughly 12 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the day. It is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified court transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter or official transcriber, and not legal advice.
Built for a long day in the hearing room
Evidence, submissions and rulings, all on one clock.
Morning and afternoon together
A tribunal or court day of five to seven hours fits in a single file of up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Upload the day as one recording and the timestamps run straight through from the first submission to the adjournment.
Go to the answer, not the hour
Search the transcript for a document reference, a date or a name and land on the passage, then play the audio from that timestamp to hear the tone of the answer before you rely on it in a note.
A day, a week, a long hearing
Six hours is 360 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500. A five-day hearing at that length is 1,800 minutes, on the $12 pack of 2,000. Ten such days come to 3,600 minutes, which belongs on the $24 pack of 5,000. Figures are in US dollars.
Names in the summary
The judge or panel, counsel and each witness are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. Chapters follow the shape of the day: openings, each witness, submissions and the ruling.
Why a hearing recording sits unread
Checking one answer should not mean replaying the afternoon.
✗ Notes and the raw audio
Notes from the room are partial, and replaying the recording to confirm a single answer takes as long as the session did.
- Gaps in the handwritten note
- An afternoon replayed for one exchange
- Separate files for each session
- Upload caps on general tools
- No timestamp to cite in a note
- Typing a hearing day by hand
✓ A working transcript in minutes
The full day becomes searchable text, timestamped, made from the recording after the hearing.
- About 12 minutes for a 6-hour day
- A free first 20 minutes
- $6 for 500 minutes per hearing day
- Witnesses named in the summary and quotes
- Chapters by witness and submission
- DOCX to annotate, JSON for review tools
Sample
A tribunal day, at the exchanges that matter.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from any real hearing. It shows how timestamps place each exchange across a long day.
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
UK hearing recordings, answered.
How long does a hearing day take to transcribe?
About 12 minutes for 6 hours of audio, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A 7-hour day takes about 14 minutes, and it keeps running if you close the tab.
What does a hearing cost?
One 6-hour day is 360 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A five-day hearing is 1,800 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a two-week hearing of ten 6-hour days is 3,600 minutes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
What can I use the transcript for?
Preparation: finding an answer, checking a date, drafting a note of the evidence, and quoting with a timestamp so a colleague can hear the original. Where an official record is needed, use the one the court or tribunal provides.
Will a full day upload as one file?
Yes. One file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload; a larger one starts once a pack is on the account. A day longer than 10 hours goes in as two files.
What about Welsh, or evidence through an interpreter?
99 languages are detected automatically, Welsh among them. A hearing that switches language is transcribed on its main language, so passages given through an interpreter in a second language should be checked against the audio.
Which exports are there, and who has the recording?
The day exports to TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and a hearing and its transcript can be deleted at any time.
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