Transcribe long meetings from an Olympus WS-882 from the recorder in the middle of the table to the minutes.
A 2.5-hour board meeting recorded on an Olympus WS-882 comes back as text in about 5 minutes, and an MP3 of that length is usually a couple of hundred megabytes, well inside the box on this page. The first 20 minutes are free; four weekly 90-minute team meetings are 360 minutes, which fit the $6 pack of 500.
Meeting recorder to minutes
The WS-882 sits on the table and catches the room. The minutes are the part nobody wants to type.
Copying the file across
Like most Olympus recorders of this line, the WS-882 has a USB connector built into the body, so it plugs into a computer and appears as a drive. Recordings are kept in lettered folders; open the one you recorded into, sort by date and copy the meeting out. The current OM System manual names the folders for your firmware.
Settings for a table of voices
Put the recorder in the middle of the table, away from the projector fan. A meeting or conference scene, if your menu has one, widens what the microphones pick up. The file format is usually MP3; check the recording mode menu if you are unsure.
The month, in minutes
Four weekly 90-minute team meetings are 360 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500. Add a monthly 2.5-hour board meeting and the total is 510, which tips over to the $12 pack of 2,000; that pack then lasts about four months of the same calendar.
What the secretary gets
A brief of what was agreed, chapters for each agenda item with timestamps, and every name, figure and deadline said aloud. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and the chat finds the minute a motion was carried.
Minutes from a recorder
The meeting ends at nine. The minutes are due by Friday, and the only record is a two-hour MP3.
✗ Typing them up
An evening with headphones and a pause key.
- Two and a half hours replayed in fragments
- Motions reconstructed from memory
- Figures misheard and checked again
- Agenda order lost in a long file
- Last month's decisions buried in a folder
- One person's evening every week
✓ Reading them
The recording turns into a draft of the minutes.
- About 5 minutes for a 2.5-hour meeting
- Each agenda item as a chapter
- Owners, sums and dates pulled out
- Chat to confirm what was moved
- DOCX for the minute book
- A month on one pack
Sample
A long board meeting, read back.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not from a real meeting. Timestamps span a 2.5-hour meeting.
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
Olympus WS-882 meetings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour WS-882 meeting take?
About 5 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes for every hour of audio. A one-hour committee meeting is back in about 2.
What file does the WS-882 make?
Usually MP3, which uploads as it is. If your unit offers another format in its recording mode menu, that may upload too; any file under 500 MB goes in the box on this page, and anything larger continues on the main upload page.
What does a busy month cost?
Four 90-minute weekly meetings come to 360 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500. A month that also has a 2.5-hour board meeting is 510 minutes and moves to the $12 pack of 2,000, which covers about four such months. No subscription, and credits never expire.
Do people need to know they are being recorded?
Yes. Tell the room before you start and get the consent the law where you meet requires; many groups note it in the minutes. WhipScribe only works on the file once it is uploaded.
Can I send a full-day meeting?
Yes. A file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and an MP3 from a voice recorder reaches the 10-hour mark long before the size limit. Before the first pack, files are capped at 2 GB, which a meeting MP3 will not approach.
Which exports come back, and is the meeting kept private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. The transcript is a working draft for writing your minutes, not an official record.
Related
Other recorders and meeting pages
Plug in the WS-882 and upload the meeting. The first 20 minutes are on us.
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