Transcribe a Blue Yeti recording however long the laptop ran.
A Blue Yeti is a USB microphone, so a long Yeti recording is whatever file your laptop software saved, typically a WAV or an MP3 from Audacity, GarageBand or a similar app. WhipScribe takes it as one upload of up to 10 hours and returns three hours of speech in about 6 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free.
Recorded on a laptop
Hours of desk audio, one file, one transcript.
Find the file the app wrote
The Yeti plugs in over USB and holds no memory of its own. In Audacity the take lives in a project until you choose Export, in GarageBand it is shared out of the project, and simpler recorder apps save straight into a folder. Export or locate that file and drag it into the box above.
Pick MP3 for very long takes
An uncompressed stereo WAV runs to about 635 MB an hour at 44.1 kHz, so four hours lands near 2.5 GB. Exporting the same take as MP3 brings it to a few hundred megabytes. Either works: files over 500 MB go through the upload page, and a file above 2 GB starts once a pack is on the account.
A seminar back in minutes
At roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, a three-hour seminar recorded on a Yeti is ready in around 6 minutes. A six-hour workshop takes about 12. The upload over home broadband is often the slower half.
Ask the recording a question
Long laptop recordings tend to be lectures, interviews or narration drafts. Alongside the text you get chapters with timestamps, the figures and dates that were spoken, and a chat over the transcript, so you can ask where a topic came up instead of listening again.
Why long Yeti takes stall
The microphone is not the hard part. The three-hour file is.
✗ The usual workarounds
Most of the friction with a long laptop recording comes after you press stop.
- A WAV too large for an email or chat upload
- Chopping the take to fit a short-file tool
- Re-encoding just to satisfy a size limit
- Paying monthly for a few recordings a year
- Timestamps that reset in every piece
- Hours spent typing what is already recorded
✓ What happens here
The Yeti take goes up once, as exported.
- WAV, MP3, M4A or FLAC accepted
- Two minutes or so for each recorded hour
- Presenter and participants named in the brief and chapters
- One clock from the first word to the last
- $6 covers up to 500 minutes
- Five download formats
Sample
A three-hour seminar recorded on a desk mic.
This sample is illustrative and invented for this page, not taken from anyone's Yeti recording. It shows how a long laptop take comes back 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
Blue Yeti recordings, answered.
How quickly will a long Yeti recording be transcribed?
Expect about 2 minutes per audio hour after the file is uploaded. A three-hour recording is typically done in about 6 minutes, and the transcript waits in your Library if you step away.
What does a four-hour Yeti take cost?
A four-hour take uses 240 minutes. The first 20 are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest and leaves 260 minutes for the next recording. That is $0.72 per audio hour, with no subscription.
Is my WAV too big?
Probably not. The limit per file is 5 GB or 10 hours, whichever comes first. Before a pack is on the account, files up to 2 GB start at once, which is a little over three hours of stereo WAV; a larger WAV starts after a pack, or you can export it as MP3.
The recording is longer than 10 hours. What now?
Export it as two files, cutting at a pause in the audio editor you recorded with. Each part is transcribed separately with its own timestamps.
Which languages does it pick up?
Any of 99 languages, detected from the audio with nothing to choose first. Japanese, Swedish, Hebrew and Afrikaans recordings work the same way as English.
What do I download, and where does the audio go?
Pick TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON for each recording. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and deleting the file removes it and its transcript.
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