Transcribe long audio in the Philippines hours in, minutes out.
From the Philippines you can transcribe a single recording of up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and it comes back in about 2 minutes per audio hour, so 5 hours takes roughly 10 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the rest is paid with a one-time pack from $6 for 500 minutes, charged in US dollars to your card.
What long means here
Lectures, hearings, seminars and podcasts that run for hours, in one piece.
The limits, plainly
The ceiling for one file is 10 hours or 5 GB, and whichever you reach first applies. Before your first pack, uploads can be up to 2 GB, and a larger file starts once a pack is on the account. Links to YouTube, Google Drive, Vimeo or a podcast feed need no upload at all.
Paying from the Philippines
Prices are in US dollars. Your bank or card issuer converts the amount when you pay, so the peso figure on your statement depends on their rate. GCash is not available at checkout; a card that works for international online purchases is.
Filipino, English and the mix
Tagalog and Filipino are among the 99 languages detected automatically, and recordings that switch between English and Tagalog are handled in one file. Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikol and Kapampangan are supported too; accuracy trails the major languages, so treat those as a fast first draft and plan one review pass.
What comes back
Besides the transcript, you get a brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates that were said, and a chat over the recording. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters.
Why long files get stuck
Most tools were built for a 30-minute meeting.
✗ Cutting a recording to fit
A long seminar or interview often has to be chopped into parts to fit a free tier or an upload cap, then stitched back together. Each part restarts its clock at zero, so a timestamp in part three no longer matches the original recording.
- Free tiers that end after a few minutes
- Upload limits of 25 MB on some APIs
- A monthly plan for one recording
- Split files with separate clocks
- Captions that skip Filipino words
- Days of manual typing
✓ The whole recording at once
One file up to 10 hours, one transcript, one set of timestamps. The text you share lines up with the recording you kept.
- About 10 minutes for 5 hours
- First 20 minutes free
- $6 for 500 minutes, no subscription
- Taglish kept in one transcript
- Speakers named in the summary and chapters
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON
Sample
A long seminar, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it does not come from a customer recording. Moderator, speakers and participant stand in for the names a summary would carry.
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 recordings from the Philippines, the common questions.
How long does a long recording take?
About 2 minutes per audio hour. A 5-hour seminar takes roughly 10 minutes, and a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds in our published proof. Close the tab if you like; the transcript waits in your Library.
What does 5 hours cost, and in which currency?
Five hours is 300 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Everything is priced in US dollars; your card issuer converts it to pesos at its own rate. For 10 to 33 hours, the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is cheaper per hour.
Can I pay with GCash?
Not at the moment. Checkout takes a card. Packs are one-time payments with no subscription, and the credits never expire.
My recording is longer than 10 hours. What do I do?
Split it into two files at a natural break, such as lunch or a session change. Each part can then be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and each returns with its own chapters and timestamps.
Is there a free option?
Someone using WhipScribe for the first time gets the first 20 minutes free. A recording of 20 minutes or less is transcribed in full; a longer one is previewed, and a pack transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.
Which formats can I download, and is my recording private?
Plain text, Word, SRT and VTT captions, and JSON all come out of one run. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
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