Transcribe long interview recordings in Singapore with the quotes timestamped.
An interview recorded in Singapore that runs past an hour comes back at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute conversation is ready in roughly 3 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes finishes it with at least 410 minutes to spare for the next interviews.
What long interviews need
The quote that matters is somewhere in the second hour.
Quotes with their time
Every passage carries its timestamp, so a line you plan to print or cite can be checked against the audio in seconds. The key quotes section pulls out the statements that carry the interview and names the person who said them.
Three kinds of long interview
A journalist's sit-down that runs ninety minutes, an oral history session recorded over an afternoon, and an HR or workplace investigation interview that has to be written up fairly. All three are long, mostly two voices, and need the exact wording kept.
A project's worth of minutes
Twenty interviews of 90 minutes each come to 1,800 minutes. That belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, with room for a follow-up session. A single 90-minute interview uses a small part of the $6 pack.
Older voices, slower speech
Oral history recordings often have long pauses, soft voices and a room that echoes. Pauses leave no text behind, the speech is transcribed, and the free 20 minutes let you hear how a difficult recording came out before you pay.
Why interviews take so long by hand
Typing out one long interview can take most of a working day.
✗ Typing it up yourself
Transcribing by hand runs at several times the length of the recording, and the second hour is where attention slips.
- A day lost per interview
- Pausing every few seconds
- Paraphrase where the exact words were needed
- Quotes with no time to check them
- Files over the cap of a general tool
- No summary for the editor or the panel
✓ The full conversation, checked by time
Upload the file and get the whole interview with a brief, key quotes and every passage on the clock.
- About 3 minutes for 90 minutes
- The free 20 minutes to judge the audio
- $6 for 500 minutes, no subscription
- Both voices named in the summary
- Chapters by topic across the interview
- DOCX to edit, JSON for coding tools
Sample
An oral history interview, partway through.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not drawn from any real interview. It shows how a long conversation reads with 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
Long interviews from Singapore, answered.
How long does a 90-minute interview take to transcribe?
About 3 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A two-hour interview takes about 4 minutes and a four-hour oral history session about 8.
What does a series of interviews cost?
A 90-minute interview takes 90 minutes from the $6 pack of 500 minutes, leaving at least 410. A project of twenty such interviews is 1,800 minutes and belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and credits never expire.
The recording is on my phone and runs for hours. Will it go through?
No. One file can run up to 10 hours or be up to 5 GB, and phone voice memos are usually far smaller than that. Files up to 2 GB upload before the first pack. A long interview does not need to be split into parts.
Can the interview be in Mandarin, Malay or Tamil?
Yes. Those are among 99 languages detected automatically. An interview that moves between languages is detected on its main language, so read the passages in the second language closely. For a dialect, run the free 20 minutes first and see how it reads.
Are both people in the interview identified?
The interviewer and interviewee are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. Each passage of the transcript carries its timestamp, so any line can be checked against the recording.
Which exports come with it, and who sees the recording?
Downloads: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Delete the interview and its transcript whenever the project closes.
Related
Other long conversations
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