Transcribe a long recording from an EVISTR recorder plug in, copy, upload.
To transcribe a long recording from an EVISTR digital recorder, connect it to your computer by USB, copy the MP3 or WAV file off it and upload it here; a six-hour workshop is text in about 12 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and those 360 minutes fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 140 left.
A budget recorder, a long day
It recorded every hour. Now every hour is searchable.
Getting the file across
EVISTR recorders are usually sold with a USB cable, and connected to a computer they typically show up as a removable drive. Open it, look through the recording folder for the file from the right day, and copy it to your desktop first; uploading straight from the recorder works too, but a local copy survives if the cable is knocked out halfway.
MP3 or WAV makes a big difference
Many EVISTR models let you choose MP3 or WAV in the settings. A stereo WAV at 44.1 kHz and 16 bits is about 635 MB an hour (44,100 × 2 bytes × 2 channels × 3,600 seconds), so eight hours of it passes 5 GB. The same eight hours as MP3 at 128 kbps is under 500 MB. For long sessions, MP3 is the setting to choose.
Split files and voice activation
Some budget recorders start a new file after a set length or size, and voice activation can leave a long day as many short files. Check the folder for consecutive files with the same date. Each one can be uploaded on its own; the minutes add up the same whether the day arrives as one file or several. Bigger batches go up from the upload page.
What the six hours turn into
The transcript comes with a brief giving the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates spoken aloud, and the questions the session answered. You can also chat with the transcript to find the moment someone gave a deadline. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Why cheap recorders rarely get listened to
Recording was easy. Replaying it never happens.
✗ The file on the recorder
A full day of audio, and no time to hear it again.
- A WAV too heavy for most upload boxes
- Recordings split into unlabelled pieces
- Notes that miss what was said after lunch
- Hand-typing hours of speech
- Per-minute subscriptions for occasional use
- No quick way to find one quote
✓ The MP3 or WAV, uploaded
The workshop as text, with its structure already marked.
- Six hours done in about 12 minutes
- WAV accepted when it fits under 5 GB
- Chapters where each topic begins
- Figures and dates pulled into the brief
- 360 minutes from the $6 pack
- Exports in five formats
Sample
A long training workshop on a handheld recorder.
This sample was written for the page and quotes no real workshop; timestamps run from the start of the copied 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
EVISTR recorder files, answered.
How fast is a six-hour EVISTR recording?
About 12 minutes once uploaded, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A one-hour lecture is ready in about 2 minutes.
How much will it cost?
Six hours is 360 minutes, on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A week of five such days, 1,800 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000. A first-time visitor has the first 20 minutes free, and a longer recording is previewed until a pack transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped.
My recorder saved a WAV. Will it upload?
Yes, if the file is under 5 GB and 10 hours. Before your first pack, the upload limit is 2 GB, about three hours of CD-quality stereo WAV; a larger file starts once a pack is on the account. Converting to MP3 shrinks it about ten times with no loss to the speech.
Does WhipScribe connect to the recorder?
No. There is no app or driver for EVISTR recorders. You copy the file off the recorder the way you would copy a photo off a camera card, and upload it.
Which languages work?
99 languages, detected automatically. If people in the room move between two languages, detection follows the main language and the switches are handled. Music and background noise are not transcribed; the speech is.
Is the recording kept private, and which formats can I export?
An EVISTR file is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training. Downloads are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and you can delete the recording once you have them.
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