Transcribe long interviews from New Zealand, quotes you can check.
A two-hour interview recorded in New Zealand, whether for a story, an oral history or an HR process, comes back as text in about 4 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the full 120 minutes sit on a $6 pack of 500 minutes.
What a long interview looks like here
Two hours of someone talking, with every quote traceable to the second.
Quotes you can verify
Every line carries its timestamp, so before a quote goes into print or a report you can play the exact moment and hear the words as they were said, tone included.
Oral histories at full length
An oral history can run three hours over a single sitting. It goes in as one file, up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and the names, places and dates the narrator mentions are pulled out with a timestamp each.
Ten interviews, priced
Ten oral history interviews of two hours each are 1,200 minutes, which go on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, about $0.36 per audio hour. A single interview uploads on upload page.
Find the moment, not the hour
Ask the chat when the interviewee first mentioned the move north, or what they said about the second contract, and it answers from the transcript with a time to check.
Why long interviews are awkward elsewhere
The longer the interview, the more a missing timestamp costs.
✗ Typing and guessing
A long interview typed by hand takes a day, and a quote pulled from memory is a risk.
- A day of typing per two-hour interview
- Quotes checked by scrubbing the audio
- Short free tiers that stop mid-answer
- A subscription for a few interviews
- Names and dates misheard and lost
- No record of where a quote sits
✓ The interview, traceable
One recording in, a timed text out, with the names and dates already listed.
- Two hours back in ~4 minutes
- Timestamps line by line
- Named key quotes
- A chat to find a moment
- DOCX for the archive file
- Packs from $6
Sample
An oral history interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any real interview. Interviewer and narrator appear by role alone.
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 interviews in New Zealand, the common questions.
How quickly is a two-hour interview transcribed?
Expect around 4 minutes, since the pace is close to 2 minutes per audio hour. A three-hour oral history session is usually back in around 6.
What does a long interview cost?
A two-hour interview is 120 minutes: the first 20 are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest at $0.72 per audio hour. A project of ten interviews belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
How large can the file be, and will I need to split a long session?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file, so no interview needs splitting. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, which an audio recorder's file never comes near.
Can it handle te reo Māori, or interviews in other languages?
WhipScribe detects 99 languages without a setting, with each recording detected on its main language. If an English interview moves into te reo Māori for names, waiata or whole passages, give those parts a review pass against the recording.
Which exports come back, and how is a sensitive interview handled?
Your exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete the interview and its transcript as soon as your file is complete.
Who is speaking in the transcript?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so you can see who said each quoted line. The full text is timestamped throughout, which is what you need to check an attribution against the audio.
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