Transcribe an Ilocano focus group discussion without replaying two hours of voices.
To transcribe an Ilocano FGD, upload the recording or paste its Google Drive link; a 2-hour session comes back in about 4 minutes with a timestamped transcript, chapters and a summary. Ilocano is supported but its accuracy trails the major languages, so read the Ilocano passages as a fast first draft and plan one review pass, while English and Tagalog stretches come back cleanly. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers four two-hour sessions.
For community and project research
An FGD in Ilocano has ten people and one recorder. The text should keep up with both.
Four minutes for a two-hour session
At roughly 2 minutes of processing per audio hour, you can upload after the session closes and the draft is ready before the venue is packed up.
A summary of where the group agreed
The brief opens with what the participants converged on and lists the takeaways below it. Speakers are named in the summary and key quotes when the facilitator calls on people by name.
Every barangay's session from one link
A project that ran sessions in several municipalities can paste a Google Drive folder link and send them all at once. A single long video saved on a laptop can continue on the upload page.
Questions the session answered
The recording's answers are listed as questions with timestamps, which maps neatly onto a guide with eight or ten prompts.
Typing an FGD by hand
A two-hour group in Ilocano is a long week of typing for one documenter.
✗ The usual way
Documenters in the room take process notes, then someone types the full discussion from the audio afterwards. Overlapping answers and side remarks in Ilocano slow that typing to a crawl, and the report waits on it.
- Process notes that catch the loudest participant
- Eight to ten hours of typing per session
- Side comments lost when two people answer at once
- No timestamp to go back and check a quote
- Sessions from different sites in different formats
- A report deadline that slips with every group
✓ Uploaded here
The session returns as text with a timeline, and the review pass replaces the typing.
- A full draft about 4 minutes after upload
- Timestamps on every line for checking quotes
- Chapters that line up with the FGD guide
- Quotes tied to the person who said them
- One folder link for a multi-site study
- DOCX ready for your coding software
Sample output
A facilitator moves to the next guide question.
An invented exchange, rendered in English so every reader can follow it. No real community, project or participant is represented.
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
Ilocano FGD transcription, answered.
How long does a 2-hour Ilocano FGD take to process?
Around four minutes. Upload each session as its own file, or paste a Drive folder link to send them together.
What does a whole study cost?
Four sessions of 120 minutes are 480 minutes and fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Twelve sessions are 1,440 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so a pack bought for the pilot also covers the main fieldwork.
How accurate is it on Ilocano, and what about English or Tagalog answers?
The language is detected from the recording itself. A session held mostly in Ilocano is read as Ilocano, and the passages where participants switch to English come back cleanly. Ilocano itself is where you spend the review pass described above, mostly on names of places and local terms.
Is there a size limit, and should I cut out the opening prayer and introductions?
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and before your first pack the upload limit is 2 GB. Keep the session whole: the chapters then follow the real order of the discussion, and you can skip the introductions when reading.
Are participants identified?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters when the recording gives their names. The transcript lines carry timestamps, so you can check any quote against the audio before it goes in the report.
Which exports are there, and is the recording kept private?
You can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, and DOCX imports into most qualitative analysis tools as a document. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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