Transcribe an Italian radio show and turn each broadcast into something people can read.
A 3-hour Italian-language radio programme recorded in Australia is transcribed in about 6 minutes, with Italian detected automatically and the music between segments left out. The first 20 minutes are free, and a month of four weekly 3-hour shows, 720 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For community radio producers
The show goes out live on Sunday morning. By Monday it has gone.
Each segment found again
News from the community, the interview, the talkback hour, the notices: chapters with timestamps mark each one, so cutting a clip or replying to a caller's question starts at the right minute.
A write-up for the website
The brief gives the programme's main points and takeaways, a starting draft for the show notes, the station newsletter or a post for listeners who missed it.
Already a podcast?
If the station publishes the programme as a podcast or RSS feed, paste the feed link instead of downloading audio. A full broadcast-day logger file of 10 hours at 128 kbps is about 576 MB, which continues on the upload page.
Captions for the clips
Download SRT or VTT and caption the interview excerpt you post as video. The song breaks carry no captions because music is not transcribed.
Why broadcasts disappear
Three hours of Italian talk radio a week, and none of it searchable.
✗ After the broadcast
The audio goes into an archive folder, guests ask for a copy of what they said, and the presenter retypes the best bits by hand.
- No text of the interview for the guest
- Callers' questions forgotten by Tuesday
- Hours of logger audio nobody revisits
- English-only transcription for an Italian show
- Show notes written from memory
- Clips posted without captions
✓ With the transcript
The programme is Italian text before the next one is planned.
- About 6 minutes for a 3-hour show
- Italian detected, English guests handled
- Music skipped, speech kept
- Presenters and guests named in the summary
- SRT and VTT for clips
- Four weeks of shows on the $12 pack
Sample output
A Sunday morning programme, from the welcome to the talkback line.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real station, show or presenter. English gloss: good morning and welcome to the Sunday programme; today we talk about Easter traditions in our home towns; we have a caller on the line, you're on air; after the music break, community news and this week's notices.
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
Italian radio recordings, answered.
How long does a 3-hour show take?
About 6 minutes, since each hour of audio needs roughly 2 minutes of processing. A 2-hour programme is ready in about 4. On a public test, 9.31 hours of audio finished in 1,033 seconds; that run is at /proof/long-files.
What does a season of shows cost?
Two 3-hour shows, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500. A month of four, 720 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000. A quarter of thirteen weekly shows is 2,340 minutes, which needs the $24 pack of 5,000. A station transcribing every programme every week can also look at the $19/month Workspace.
What happens to the songs and jingles?
Music, jingles and sound effects are not transcribed; the speech is. The presenter's links, interviews, news reads and callers come through, and a song simply leaves a gap between two timestamps.
Some guests speak English. Is that a problem?
No. The programme is detected on its main language, Italian, and English answers from a guest are handled in the same transcript. You never set the language yourself.
Can we keep the whole broadcast as one file?
Yes, up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. A longer logger recording goes in as two files. Before the first pack, an upload can be up to 2 GB; a 3-hour MP3 is far below that.
Can we use the transcript on air or online?
It is a working text for show notes, clips and the archive, and you can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Broadcast audio is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training.
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