Transcribe a Kapampangan FGD and check it in one pass.
A two-hour focus group discussion held in Kapampangan comes back in about 4 minutes, and four such sessions fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Kapampangan is supported, but accuracy trails the major languages, so treat the text as a fast first draft and plan one review pass; any English or Tagalog said in the room comes back cleaner.
What a Kapampangan session gives you
A draft of the whole discussion, so the review starts from text instead of from silence.
Honest about the language
Kapampangan is one of the regional Philippine languages we support, and its accuracy trails Tagalog and English. Expect a usable first draft with words to correct, and budget one listening pass per session with the transcript open beside the audio.
Mixed rooms are normal
Facilitators often open in English, participants answer in Kapampangan, and someone slips into Tagalog when the topic gets technical. The recording is detected on its main language, and English stretches inside it usually need the fewest fixes.
Many voices, one summary
Eight to ten participants is a typical FGD. The summary, key quotes and chapters identify and name the speakers, so you can see which participant raised a theme before you go back to the timestamp to confirm it.
Four sessions on the smallest pack
A two-hour session uses 120 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500, so four sessions fit with 20 minutes left over, at $0.72 per audio hour. Credits never expire if the next round of fieldwork is months away.
Why Kapampangan FGDs stall
Most of the work used to be typing before any analysis could begin.
✗ Typing it all by hand
Without a draft, a research assistant who speaks Kapampangan types every turn from scratch, and a two-hour FGD can take a full working week.
- Days of typing per session
- Only one person on the team can do it
- Tools that refuse a 2-hour file
- No timestamps to go back to a quote
- Themes found only after the full typing
- Transcripts that arrive after the report is due
✓ A draft to correct
The speaker of the language becomes the reviewer, which is a far shorter job than becoming the typist.
- About 4 minutes for two hours of audio
- One review pass with the audio playing
- Timestamps on every line of the transcript
- Chapters that follow the discussion guide
- Participants named in the summary and quotes
- DOCX ready for your coding software
Sample
How an FGD draft reads.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and shown in English for readability; it is not from a real session. A Kapampangan recording comes back in Kapampangan, with words to correct.
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
Kapampangan FGD transcription, answered.
How long does a 2-hour Kapampangan FGD take to transcribe?
Usually about 4 minutes. Speed is roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio whatever the language, and you can close the tab while it runs because the result waits in your Library.
What do my sessions cost?
Each 2-hour FGD uses 120 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers four full sessions. A study with ten sessions uses 1,200 minutes, which belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
How accurate is Kapampangan?
Less accurate than English or Tagalog, and we would rather say so here. Use it as a fast first draft and have a Kapampangan speaker correct it once against the audio; names of places and people are the words most likely to need fixing.
My recorder made a large file. Do I need to split it?
No. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and an FGD audio file is far smaller than either. Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload; a larger video starts once a pack is on the account.
Can I get the transcript into Word or my analysis tool?
Yes: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON all come from the same run. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Delete the recording and its transcript whenever your protocol requires it.
What if the session switches between Kapampangan, Tagalog and English?
That is expected in Pampanga and handled in one file. The recording is detected on its main language; English passages tend to come back clean, and the review pass catches the rest.
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