Transcribe a long DSS or DS2 file a whole day of dictation at once.
A five-hour DSS or DS2 recording is 300 minutes, which the $6 pack (500 minutes) covers with 200 left, and it is transcribed in about ten minutes once it is up. Files are accepted up to 10 hours or 5 GB, the first 20 minutes are free, and if the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first.
Dictation recorders
A format built for the recorder, not the browser.
What DSS and DS2 are
DSS and its successor DS2 are compressed formats made for digital dictation recorders and the desktop software that ships with them. They were designed to keep a voice small on the device rather than to be opened by everyday audio tools, which is why a web uploader may not recognise them.
Tiny files, long recordings
Dictation formats squeeze speech hard, so in their compressed modes an hour often comes in at well under 20 MB. Size is never the problem with these files. A ten-hour DS2 sits far below the 5 GB ceiling and the 2 GB first-upload line, and the 10-hour limit is the only one that matters.
Converting before upload
The dictation software that came with the recorder can usually export to WAV or MP3, and that is the dependable route, because DS2 in particular is not read by most general audio tools. Convert, then send the file from the upload page. A password-protected DS2 has to be opened in that software before it can be converted.
Ten minutes for five hours
At about 2 minutes per hour of audio, a full day of dictation turns into text before lunch. A public run of 2.48 hours finished in 200 seconds, and the timings for longer files sit on the long-files proof page.
Dictation files elsewhere
Where hours of DS2 usually get stuck.
✗ A format the web forgets
General tools rarely list DSS or DS2, and the workarounds tend to cost more time than the recording took to make.
- An upload box that will not show the file
- A converted file split into short clips
- A typing service that quotes by the audio minute
- Days of waiting for a typed return
- Each clip transcribed on its own
- Times that no longer match the recorder
✓ One export, one upload
Export once to MP3 or WAV and the whole session goes up as a single file with a single clock.
- Hours of dictation in one file
- Small exports that upload in seconds
- About ten minutes for five hours
- Chapters across a long session
- Names and numbers pulled out for you
- Credits kept for the next tape
Sample output
Hour four of a recorded interview day.
Illustrative only, not a real dictation. Interviews captured on a dictation recorder keep the recorder's running time when the session is exported whole.
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
Long dictation files, answered.
How long does a five-hour DSS file take?
Around ten minutes after the converted file has uploaded, since processing runs near 2 minutes per hour of audio. A dictation export is small, so the upload itself is over in moments on most connections.
What does five hours of dictation cost?
Five hours is 300 minutes, which fits on the $6 pack (500 minutes) with 200 left. Eight hours is 480 minutes on the same pack. A week of interviews adding up to 20 hours is 1,200 minutes, the size of job the $12 pack (2,000 minutes) is for.
Will the upload take a DSS or DS2 file directly?
It may not, which is why converting comes first. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first in the recorder's own software or another converter that reads the format. The words in the transcript are the same either way.
My recording runs longer than 10 hours. What then?
Export it as two files with the break at a pause, and upload each. Each part gets its own transcript, with a clock that starts at zero, so note the length of the first part if you need to quote times from the second.
Should I set the recorder to a different mode next time?
If your recorder offers an MP3, WAV or PCM mode, using it for long sessions skips the conversion step. Those modes make larger files, but even uncompressed mono speech at 44.1 kHz stays near 3.2 GB for ten hours, inside the 5 GB limit.
Which languages and formats come back, and is the audio kept private?
99 languages are detected from the speech itself, and the transcript exports to TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Dictation recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Other long voice files.
A day of dictation. Text in about ten minutes.
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