Transcribe a long spoken-word session from Ableton Live exported as one audio file.
Export the whole Arrangement of your Ableton Live set to one WAV, AIFF or MP3 file from the main output and upload it here, up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
From the Arrangement to the page
Ableton is built for music, but plenty of talking gets recorded in it. Here is how that talking becomes text.
Export Audio/Video
In the File menu choose Export Audio/Video, set the rendered track to the main output and cover the full length of the Arrangement. WAV and AIFF are always there; recent versions also write MP3 and FLAC. A .als set file holds no audio, so upload the export, not the set.
Settings that suit speech
Speech does not need 24-bit stereo. A 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo WAV is about 635 MB an hour, so 2.5 hours lands near 1.6 GB; mono halves it, and an MP3 at 128 kbps is about 144 MB for the same session.
Clips in Session View
Recordings that live as clips in Session View only export as one timeline after they are placed in the Arrangement, or recorded into it. Check the export's length matches the whole session before you upload.
What you get back
A brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, and the names, figures and dates that were spoken. People are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and a chat answers questions about the session.
Talk recorded in a music tool
A long spoken session in Ableton is easy to record and hard to read back.
✗ Without a transcript
The waveform shows when people spoke, never what they said.
- Soloing tracks to find a sentence
- Notes typed while the session ran
- A 25 MB limit on OpenAI's Whisper API
- Exports chopped into short parts
- Times copied from the transport by hand
- Sessions archived and never reread
✓ With one export here
The session reads as a document with a clock.
- All voices from the main output
- Text about 5 minutes after upload
- Chapters that match the Arrangement
- Quotes you can lift into show notes
- One price list, credits that wait
- Caption files for a video edit
Sample
A 2.5-hour spoken-word session exported from Ableton Live.
These lines are made up for the page as an illustration; they quote no real session. Times span two and a half hours.
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 $4 (300 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
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Ableton Live sessions, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour export take?
About 5 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. On /proof/long-files a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds.
What does a run of sessions cost?
Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and a longer export is previewed before a pack transcribes the rest. One 2.5-hour session is 150 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Should I export each track separately?
No. Export the main output so every microphone is in one file; separate track exports would each come back as a separate transcript without the conversation between them.
My export is over 5 GB. What should I change?
Lower the bit depth to 16-bit, choose mono, or export MP3. A 24-bit 48 kHz stereo WAV is about 1 GB an hour, so a long set at those settings passes 5 GB around the five-hour mark. Keep the file under 5 GB, with or without a pack.
Will music in the session be transcribed?
No. Music and sound effects are left out; the speech is transcribed. Speech over a loud bed is harder to read, so mute the music tracks in the export if the words matter most.
Which files come back, and what happens to the audio?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. The export is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training.
Related
More audio software and long sessions
Export the Arrangement once. Every voice lands in one transcript.
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