Transcribe long training recordings from Cornerstone Learning after the file is downloaded.
A 4-hour onboarding recording from Cornerstone Learning is transcribed in about 8 minutes once the file is uploaded. The first 20 minutes are free, two such recordings use 480 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack, and WhipScribe reads only the file you were allowed to download.
Long corporate training
Half-day and full-day sessions are what this was built for.
Saving the recording
Cornerstone is used by large employers to assign compliance, onboarding and leadership training. Recordings are usually uploaded by a training team, and only they or the platform settings decide whether a copy can leave it. If you own the content, start from your original file; if you are a learner, ask before downloading. Our side never signs in to Cornerstone; the recording arrives only as a file someone chose to upload.
Half a day in one file
A 4-hour classroom recording at a modest video bitrate can run past 2 GB. Files up to 2 GB upload before any pack, larger ones wait for a pack, and every file may reach 5 GB or 10 hours. Exporting the audio alone keeps a long day small: a 128 kbps MP3 is about 58 MB per hour.
The year's training on one pack
Sixty hours of recorded training a year is 3,600 minutes, which calls for the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes with 1,400 left over. Two 4-hour days come to 480 minutes and fit the $6 pack. A training team recording every week may prefer the $19 Workspace.
Text a compliance team can cite
Timestamps let a reviewer point to the exact minute a rule was explained. The brief gives takeaways, chapters map each module, and the named policies, figures and dates come out as a list. The trainer and anyone who asks a question are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Compared with doing nothing
A recorded half-day is evidence that training happened, and little else, until it is text.
✗ Recording only
Long video that fails the moment someone needs a detail.
- No way to search a 4-hour file
- Upload caps that cut a half-day short
- A Whisper API cap of 25 MB that a half-day blows past
- Splitting video into hour-long parts
- Summaries rewritten by hand for each cohort
- Recordings kept but never opened
✓ Recording plus text
A searchable record of the session with timestamps.
- The full half-day in a single upload
- Roughly 8 minutes for the half-day
- Chapters for each module
- Policies and dates listed
- Captions for later cohorts
- Two half-days on the $6 pack
Sample
A recorded onboarding morning, as transcribed.
This sample is illustrative and composed for this page; no real employer or session is quoted. Timestamps show a 4-hour recording.
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
Cornerstone recordings, questions answered.
How long does a 4-hour Cornerstone recording take?
Close to 8 minutes, at about 2 minutes per hour of audio. The longest file on /proof/long-files, 9.31 hours, finished in 1,033 seconds.
Which pack does a year of training need?
A first visit includes 20 minutes free. Sixty hours is 3,600 minutes, so it goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes at $0.29 an audio hour. A single half-day fits the $6 pack of 500.
Can you pull recordings straight out of Cornerstone?
No, and nothing is installed in the platform. The training team or a permitted learner downloads the recording, then uploads it here as a file.
The recording is a full 9-hour day. Will it go through?
Yes, as long as it is under 10 hours and 5 GB. A file over 2 GB starts after a pack is on the account. Longer than 10 hours becomes two files.
Our sessions are in several languages.
Each recording is detected on its own, from 99 languages, with no setting to pick. A session that drifts between two languages is detected on the main one and the switches are handled.
Which formats, and how is the content protected?
Plain text, Word, two caption formats and JSON: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON. Training recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and any file can be deleted with its text.
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