Transcribe a long interview recorded on a Hollyland Lark M2 from the file that holds the sound.
A 2.5-hour interview recorded through a Hollyland Lark M2 comes back as text in about 5 minutes once you upload the camera or phone file that holds the sound, up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Your first 20 minutes are free, and the 150 minutes fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 350 left.
Find the file, send the file
The microphones are tiny. The recording they made is wherever the receiver was plugged in.
Which file has the interview
The Lark M2 receiver plugs into a camera or a phone, so the sound usually ends up inside that device's video or audio file. Whether a transmitter also keeps its own copy depends on the version you own, so check Hollyland's manual for your kit before looking for one.
From a phone
Phones usually save video as MP4 or MOV. Open this page in the phone's browser and pick the file from your gallery or files, or put it in Google Drive and paste the share link. Long phone videos can be several gigabytes; a file bigger than this box takes continues on the main upload page.
From a camera
Copy the clip from the camera's card with a reader. A long sit-down interview filmed in high resolution can pass 2 GB quickly, which is the limit before a first pack. Exporting the audio track alone, or a small MP3, keeps the upload light and the transcript the same.
What the edit gets back
The interview returns with a brief, chapters with timestamps, and the names, places and numbers mentioned. The guest and the interviewer are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so a quote can go straight onto the timeline, and SRT is ready for subtitles.
Interview audio, usually
The interview went well. Now someone has to find the ten good minutes in two and a half hours.
✗ By hand
A long interview, played back again and again.
- Typing quotes while scrubbing
- Free tools that stop after minutes
- Phone videos too heavy to send
- Answers found by memory
- Timecodes copied wrong
- Names spelled three ways
✓ Here
A searchable interview in minutes.
- Two and a half hours, about 5 minutes
- Video or audio, up to 5 GB
- Key quotes with timestamps
- Chapters for each topic
- Names, places and numbers listed
- SRT and DOCX for the team
Sample
A long sit-down interview recorded on clip-on wireless mics, as it comes back.
An illustrative sample, written for this page and not drawn from a real interview. The timestamps follow a 2.5-hour conversation.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Hollyland Lark M2 interviews: common questions
How long does a 2.5-hour interview take to transcribe?
About 5 minutes. A full 10-hour shoot day would take about 20.
What does a series of interviews cost?
A first visit includes 20 minutes free, and a longer interview is previewed before you buy. One 2.5-hour interview is 150 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Ten of them, 1,500 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 500 left for pickups.
Does the Lark M2 record on its own?
It depends on the model and version, and we would rather not guess for yours. If your transmitters keep a copy, upload that; if not, the camera or phone file is the recording to send.
Can I upload video, or only audio?
Both. Video is fine up to 5 GB a file once a pack is on the account, and 2 GB before. Audio alone is smaller and faster to upload, with the same transcript.
Do you link to the Hollyland app?
No. There is no Hollyland integration and no bot; you upload the file or paste a link to it. The interview can be in any of 99 languages, detected automatically. English terms said inside another language are handled as they are spoken.
Is the footage kept private?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and you can delete a file and its transcript whenever you like.
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Send the interview file. Its first 20 minutes cost you nothing.
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