Transcribe a long interview for your thesis and spend the time on analysis.
To transcribe a long thesis interview, upload each recording whole: a 90-minute interview comes back in about 3 minutes with a timestamp on every line, and one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers five 90-minute interviews, about $0.72 per audio hour.
Interviews for research
Weeks of typing, replaced by a checking pass.
Typing time you get back
Transcribing an interview by hand takes several hours for every hour of talk, which turns twelve interviews into weeks. Here a 90-minute recording is ready in about 3 minutes, and your time goes into the pass that matters: listening once more while reading, correcting, and marking what you will quote.
Quotations traced to the minute
Every line carries its timestamp, so each quotation in your findings chapter can be traced to the exact minute of the audio. The key quotes list and the summary name the speakers, which makes it quick to find what a participant said about a theme. When a supervisor asks where a claim came from, you can answer with a file name and a time.
Preparing the appendix
Export DOCX and clean it into the format your department expects. Add interviewer and participant markers as you check the text against the audio, replace names with pseudonyms, and decide whether your method needs fillers and pauses marked; add those by hand where it does.
Before your ethics paperwork
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and each recording and its transcript can be deleted when your data plan says so. Describe that in your own data management section; your ethics board decides what it requires.
Transcribing interviews by hand
The transcription chapter of a thesis nobody plans for.
✗ The usual route
Hand transcription eats the weeks meant for coding and writing.
- Several hours of typing per interview hour
- Foot pedals and slowed playback
- Quotes with no time to check them against
- Free tools that stop at a short limit
- Interviews cut into pieces to fit an upload cap
- Paying per minute to a service for every draft
✓ Each interview here
A full draft in minutes, then your own careful pass.
- About 3 minutes for 90 minutes
- Timestamps on every line
- Speakers named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- DOCX for the appendix, TXT for coding
- Five 90-minute interviews in a $6 pack
- Delete recordings whenever your plan requires
Sample
A long qualitative interview, in part.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any study. It shows how lines from a 90-minute research interview come back, with their timestamps.
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
Thesis interviews, answered.
Is an AI transcript acceptable for a thesis?
That is for your department and supervisor to say. Many accept a transcript the researcher has checked against the audio, and the timestamps make that check quick. Treat the result as a draft and do one careful listening pass before you quote it.
How long does one interview take?
About 2 minutes per audio hour. A 60-minute interview is ready in about 2 minutes, a 90-minute one in about 3, and a two-hour interview in about 4. A full set of twelve can be done in an afternoon, uploads included.
What will all my interviews cost?
Five 90-minute interviews are 450 minutes and fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Twenty interviews of an hour each, 1,200 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a large study above that goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
My recorder split one interview into two files. Do I join them?
You can upload both parts separately, and each gets its own transcript and clock. Joining them first gives one transcript with continuous timestamps. Either way, a single file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and uploads before the first pack go up to 2 GB.
My interviews are in Spanish or Tagalog. Is that supported?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, including Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Korean and Japanese, and English and Tagalog switching in one interview is handled. Check translated quotes yourself; the transcript is in the language that was spoken.
Which formats do I get for coding and the appendix?
All five formats come with any pack: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. DOCX suits the appendix, and TXT is plain text that qualitative analysis software generally accepts.
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