Transcribe a long dash cam recording for the notes you said out loud.
A dash cam writes short MP4 or MOV clips to its microSD card and records over the oldest ones, so copy the card soon after the drive, join the clips into one audio file, and upload that. A six-hour drive takes about 12 minutes to transcribe, the first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the other 340.
From the windscreen to text
Hours on the road, kept as the things you meant to remember.
Copy the card before it loops
Loop recording keeps the card full by deleting the oldest clips, so a long drive can overwrite its own start. Copy every clip to a computer as soon as you stop. Clips saved by the camera's emergency or event function usually sit in a separate folder; copy those too if they matter.
Many clips, one recording
A long drive leaves dozens or hundreds of clips, each a few minutes long. Put them in order in an editor, export the audio as one MP3, and upload that single file: up to 10 hours goes in whole and returns as one transcript with one clock.
Only the speech is read
Engine hum, road noise, the radio and indicator clicks are not transcribed; what you said is. Speech sounds clearest when the camera's microphone is switched on in its settings and the windows are closed; long gaps of silence simply leave no text.
Notes you can act on
Dictated thoughts from a sales route, an inspection round or a driving lesson come back with a brief of the main points, chapters with timestamps, and every name, number and date you said. A chat over the transcript finds the address you mentioned somewhere around hour four.
Why dash cam audio gets lost
Short looping clips, overwritten cards and hours of road noise around a few minutes of talk.
✗ What usually happens
The words are on the card, but scattered across clips that loop away before anyone listens to them.
- The first hours overwritten by loop recording
- Hundreds of clips to play one by one
- Listening through road noise for a single remark
- A microphone switched off in the settings
- Short-file tools that refuse a joined drive
- Notes rewritten from memory a day later
✓ One drive, one transcript
Copy, join and upload once; the spoken notes come back in order, with the minute each was said.
- One joined file of up to 10 hours
- Six hours of driving read in about 12 minutes
- A copy safe from loop recording
- $6 covers 500 minutes, kept indefinitely
- Silence and road noise produce no text
- Downloads in five formats from one run
Sample
Notes dictated on a long delivery route, as they come back.
Illustrative only: the lines were written for this page, not taken from a real drive. Timestamps count from the start of the joined audio 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
Dash cam recordings, answered.
How long does a long drive take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a six-hour drive is ready in about 12 minutes. Long silent stretches do not slow it down.
What does a multi-day trip cost?
Six hours is 360 minutes: 20 free for a first-time visitor, 340 from a $6 pack of 500. Three days of eight-hour driving is 1,440 minutes, which calls for the $12 pack of 2,000 and leaves 560.
Can I upload the clips one at a time?
Yes. Each clip becomes its own short transcript. For a drive of many clips, joining them first gives you one document and one timeline, which is easier to read and search.
How big can the joined file be?
Up to 2 GB before the first pack, up to 5 GB or 10 hours once a pack is on the account. Audio alone is small: ten hours of 128 kbps MP3 is under 600 MB.
What if a road trip runs past 10 hours?
Export one file per day, or split the drive at a stop. Each file returns as its own transcript.
Which languages, which exports, and is it private?
99 languages are detected automatically. You can export TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Uploads are handled the same way as any recording here: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and a drive you delete is removed with its transcript.
Related
Other long recordings
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