Transcribe Megaphone episodes from the feed listeners already use.
A Megaphone episode of 3 hours 40 minutes is 220 minutes of audio, and pasting its public RSS feed returns the text in about 7 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the episode with 280 minutes to spare. Megaphone is the Spotify-owned host behind many large shows; WhipScribe reads its public feed and has no tie to the platform itself.
What a Megaphone feed gives you
A large show's longest episodes, read rather than replayed.
Start from the public feed
Large shows on Megaphone publish an RSS feed for every podcast app. That address is all WhipScribe needs: the episode audio is fetched for you and transcribed without a download on your side.
Ads are speech, music is not
If the show places read or inserted ads in the feed, those are spoken words and appear in the text, where the chapters make them easy to skip. Theme music, stings and beds are left out, because only speech is transcribed.
Quotes a producer can check
The host and each guest are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, each quote with its minute. A producer can check the exact wording before a line goes out in a newsletter or a clip.
The month in minutes
Four weekly episodes of 220 minutes add up to 880 minutes. That lands on the $12 pack of 2,000 with 1,120 minutes left, enough for a second show or the start of the archive.
Why big-show episodes stall elsewhere
Three-hour episodes and dynamic feeds trip simple tools.
✗ Without a feed-aware tool
The audio is pulled down by hand, trimmed to fit and transcribed in pieces.
- The episode saved locally before anything starts
- Ad breaks mistaken for the start of a segment
- A length limit that forces a split at hour one
- Theme music turned into gibberish lines
- Clip timing guessed from a scrub bar
- A seat fee for each producer
✓ With the feed pasted here
The public address goes in, and the full episode comes back as one text.
- Public RSS feed in, audio fetched for you
- About 7 minutes for 220 minutes
- Theme music left out, every spoken word kept
- Chapters that show where the ads sit
- Speakers named in the brief and quotes
- One-time packs, no seats
Sample
A long news-analysis episode, as text.
This sample is illustrative: it was written for this page and is taken from no real Megaphone show. Timestamps run from the top of the episode, ads included.
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
Megaphone episodes, answered.
How long does a 220-minute episode take?
About 7 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A 2.48-hour file finished in 200 seconds on the public record at /proof/long-files.
Which pack fits a Megaphone show?
One 220-minute episode sits on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A weekly show of that length is better on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a network clearing several archives at once can take the $24 pack of 5,000, which adds API access.
What if the show's feed is private or not yet published?
Only a public feed can be fetched by link. For a premium or unreleased episode, export the audio from your editing session and upload the file, which can be up to 2 GB before your first pack and up to 5 GB once one is on the account.
Does a four-hour episode need to be split?
No. One file or one feed episode can run up to 10 hours, so even the longest live specials go in whole.
Can a show in another language be transcribed?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Japanese among them, and the brief and chapters follow the language of the recording.
Which files come out, and where does the audio go?
One run gives TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON for the same episode. Episodes are transcribed on our own servers, and the audio is never used to train a model.
Related
Other long-show routes
Paste the Megaphone feed. The opening 20 minutes of the episode are on the house.
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