Transcribe a long 8x8 Meet recording for the minutes and the archive.
An 8x8 Meet recording of a long enterprise meeting is transcribed in about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 4-hour session is ready in about 8 minutes after you download it through 8x8, usually in the 8x8 Work app, and upload it here, up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. That session uses 240 of the 500 minutes in a $6 pack, after the first 20 minutes free.
From 8x8 to text
The meeting is in your 8x8 account. The minutes need it as text.
Getting the file out of 8x8
Recordings of 8x8 meetings are reached through your 8x8 account, usually in the 8x8 Work app, and saved as a video file, often an MP4. Check the export settings or ask your 8x8 administrator if the download is not offered. Nothing here links to 8x8: the file you save is the input.
Close to Jitsi
8x8 Meet shares its roots with Jitsi Meet, the open-source project 8x8 develops, so its recordings behave much like Jitsi's: a video file you download and keep. If your organisation uses both, the same steps work for each.
Quarterly and annual meetings
A 4-hour quarterly review is 240 minutes; four of them in a year are 960 minutes, on the $12 pack of 2,000. An enterprise department recording 50 hours a year uses 3,000 minutes, on the $24 pack of 5,000 at $0.29 an audio hour, which also includes API access.
Large enterprise MP4s
Four hours of meeting video at 1 megabit per second is about 1.8 GB (450 MB an hour times 4), close to the 2 GB that uploads before a first pack. Larger files continue on the upload page and start once a pack is on the account, up to 5 GB.
Why long 8x8 meetings go unread
The recording is in the account. The board pack needs the words.
✗ Video only
The review is saved as four hours of video, and the minutes are written days later.
- Four hours of video for a two-page summary
- Figures quoted from slides, not from what was said
- Recordings an administrator has to retrieve
- Questions from regional offices lost in the replay
- Files over a 25 MB limit refused outright
- Minutes drafted days afterwards
✓ Minutes from the text
The same recording becomes the basis for the minutes the same afternoon.
- A 4-hour review back in about 8 minutes
- 240 minutes off a $6 pack
- Chapters for each department's section
- Figures and dates listed
- Each presenter named in brief and quotes
- A DOCX of minutes and a JSON archive copy
Sample
A 4-hour 8x8 quarterly review.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not taken from a real 8x8 meeting. Every timestamp runs from the start of the 8x8 file.
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
8x8 Meet recordings, answered.
How long does a 4-hour 8x8 meeting take?
About 8 minutes once uploaded, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 2-hour meeting takes about 4, and a full 8-hour training day about 16.
What does a year of 8x8 meetings cost?
Four 4-hour quarterly reviews are 960 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000. One review on its own is 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and credits never run out with time.
Can I transcribe from inside 8x8?
No. There is no 8x8 integration, plugin or bot. Download the recording, then upload it; a YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link to a copy also works.
How big or long can an 8x8 recording be?
10 hours or 5 GB per file, and 2 GB per upload until a first pack is bought. A meeting longer than 10 hours is uploaded as two files, and a video over 5 GB can be saved as audio first.
Our offices speak different languages. Is that handled?
99 languages are detected automatically, among them Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Swedish. When a speaker switches language, the recording is detected on its main language and the switches are handled.
Which exports, and where is the recording processed?
Export the meeting as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. 8x8 recordings sent to WhipScribe are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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