Transcribe an Ilocano radio program and find what each caller said.
A 3-hour Ilocano radio programme recorded off air or from the station's stream turns into searchable text in about 6 minutes, and a 2-hour one in about 4. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes holds two full 3-hour broadcasts with 140 minutes to spare.
For producers, hosts and researchers
A morning talk programme is three hours of opinions, call-ins and announcements. The text keeps all of it findable.
The broadcast in one page
The brief opens with what the programme argued that morning and the takeaways a listener would repeat. It is the page a producer files before the next show is planned.
Segments become chapters
News headlines, the commentary block, the open line and the public service notices each get a chapter with a title and a start time, so a 3-hour file reads like a rundown.
Every figure said on air
Farm-gate prices, road closures, meeting dates and phone numbers read by the host are pulled into one list, each with the minute it was spoken.
Off-air captures welcome
A recorder plugged into the receiver, a phone held near the speaker, a saved stream: send whichever file you have through the upload page.
Why logging by ear fails
Writing down a broadcast while it airs means missing the next caller while you finish the last one.
✗ Logging the programme by hand
Radio moves fast and the host rarely repeats. A person logging a 3-hour show by ear writes down the topics and loses the wording, which is the part a complaint or a follow-up story needs.
- A log that lists topics but not what was said
- Callers' points paraphrased from memory
- Prices and dates copied wrong under pressure
- Hours of replay to confirm one quote
- Jingles and ads mixed into the notes
- No archive anyone else can search
✓ The same broadcast here
The spoken parts of the whole programme come back as text with times, and the structure is drawn out for you.
- A brief with the programme's main argument
- Chapters for news, commentary and call-ins
- On-air prices and dates listed with times
- Questions callers asked, collected
- Two 3-hour broadcasts on one $6 pack
- DOCX for the station's own log
Sample output
A host taking a call in Ilocano.
This exchange is illustrative: we wrote it for this page, and it is not taken from any real station, host or caller.
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 radio recordings, answered.
How long does a 3-hour broadcast take to transcribe?
Roughly 6 minutes, because an hour of broadcast audio takes about 2 minutes to process. On the public proof page, a 2.48-hour file finished in 200 seconds, so a 2-hour programme is usually back before the next news break.
What does a week of Ilocano programmes cost?
A single 3-hour show is 180 minutes; after the first 20 minutes free, the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers it and a second one. Five weekday shows of 3 hours come to 900 minutes, which sits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. A month of weekday broadcasts, around 3,960 minutes, needs the $24 pack of 5,000.
How good is the Ilocano text?
Ilocano is supported, but its accuracy trails the major languages: treat the result as a fast first draft and plan one review pass by someone who speaks it. English news reads and English call-ins come back cleanly, and Tagalog stretches are detected automatically.
My recording is a large WAV from the receiver. Does it need cutting?
No. A single broadcast file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. A 3-hour MP3 at 128 kbps is about 173 MB (128,000 bits a second, divided by 8, times 10,800 seconds), far under the limit. Before your first pack the upload ceiling is 2 GB; a bigger WAV starts once a pack is on the account.
Are the jingles, songs and ads transcribed?
Music, sound effects and station IDs are not transcribed; the speech is. Song breaks usually appear as gaps between timestamps, which also makes it easy to see where each talk segment begins.
Which exports come back, and who hears the broadcast audio?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all with timestamps. For a station's archive the rule is simple: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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