Transcribe long recordings from Audio Memos a three-hour iPhone session, read in minutes.
A 3-hour session recorded in Audio Memos on an iPhone is text in about 6 minutes once you export the file and upload it here. The opening minutes are a free preview, and the 180 minutes fit the $4 pack of 300 minutes.
From the memo list to text
Audio Memos holds a long session well. Reading it back is another matter.
Exporting a memo
Open the recording in the app and look for its export or share option; depending on the version, it can send a file to the Files app, to a cloud service or to a computer. Saving into iCloud Drive or Google Drive is the easiest way to move a big file off the phone. Menus change between releases, so follow what your copy shows; a long memo can take a minute to export, so leave the app open until it finishes.
WAV versus compressed
Uncompressed audio is large: a mono 16-bit WAV at 44.1 kHz is about 318 MB an hour, so three hours is near 950 MB, more than the 500 MB this page's box takes; it continues on the main upload page and is well under the 5 GB one file can be. A compressed export of the same session is a fraction of that.
A month of sessions
A choir, a study group or a committee that meets for three hours each week records 720 minutes a month. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Reading a session back
The session returns with a brief, chapters at each new topic, and the names, numbers and dates said aloud. Speakers are identified and named in the summary and key quotes, and the chat over the transcript answers which part of the evening covered a given item.
Long memos elsewhere
A three-hour memo is easy to keep and hard to search.
✗ Before
The session lives as a waveform.
- Big WAV files refused by email and chat apps
- A 25 MB cap on the OpenAI Whisper API
- Minutes written from rough notes
- One remark found by dragging the playhead
- Recordings split into hour-long pieces
- Weekly sessions never transcribed
✓ After
A long session you can skim and quote.
- Three hours ready in about 6 minutes
- WAV up to 5 GB on the main upload page
- Chapters through the evening
- Dates and figures listed
- Speakers named in the summary
- A month of sessions on the $18 pack
Sample
A three-hour iPhone session, as it comes back.
Illustrative only: invented for this page, not taken from any real meeting. Timestamps follow a 3-hour evening session.
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
Audio Memos recordings, the questions people ask.
How long does a 3-hour Audio Memos session take?
About 6 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 45-minute memo is ready in about a minute and a half.
My WAV export is over 500 MB. What now?
The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; anything bigger continues on the main upload page, which accepts one file up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The cap there is 5 GB, before or after your first pack.
How much does a month of weekly sessions cost?
Four 3-hour sessions are 720 minutes, which goes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. A single session of 180 minutes fits the $4 pack of 300, and the opening minutes of a first visit are free.
Is there an Audio Memos plug-in?
No. WhipScribe has no integration with Audio Memos and runs nothing on your iPhone. It transcribes the file you export and upload.
Can I record people at a meeting?
Tell the people in the room that you are recording, and get the consent the law where you are requires. WhipScribe only transcribes the file afterwards.
Which languages and exports, and is the memo private?
Audio Memos sessions in any of 99 languages are detected automatically. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and your sessions are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Other iPhone recordings
Export the session and send it. A free preview of the opening minutes.
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