Transcribe a long OM System WS-883 recording meeting to minutes in one upload.
A long OM System WS-883 recording, whether a board meeting or a lecture, goes up here as one file and comes back in about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 2.5-hour meeting takes about five. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack covers the remaining 130 minutes of that meeting.
What the WS-883 file becomes
Someone pressed record when the meeting opened and stop when it ended. That file is enough.
Copy, then upload
Connect the recorder to a computer and it shows up as a drive, with each session saved as a standard audio file, MP3 in the modes most people use. Copy the file you want and send it from upload page. You never open the recorder's own software.
Who said it, in the notes
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters. When the chair confirms a budget or a member objects to a date, the brief says who did, and the timestamp lets you play the exact moment back.
Minutes with the decisions in them
The brief lists the decisions and the takeaways, and the chapters follow the agenda as it was actually discussed. Names, numbers and dates said out loud come back as a list, which is most of what a secretary needs to write the record.
A whole year of meetings
Twelve monthly meetings of 2.5 hours are 30 hours, or 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000. A committee that meets every week may prefer the $19 a month Workspace, but a pack is enough for most.
Where long meeting audio goes wrong
The recorder caught every word. Getting the words out is the slow part.
✗ The usual workaround
Listening back at double speed and typing notes takes most of a day for a single long meeting.
- Hours of replaying for one decision
- An app that stops at the first hour
- Splitting the file to fit an upload limit
- Guesswork about who proposed what
- No timestamps to settle a dispute
- Notes that miss the numbers
✓ One upload of the whole meeting
The full recording becomes a document the whole committee can search.
- About five minutes for 2.5 hours
- Speakers named in the summary and chapters
- Every figure and date said, listed
- Chat that answers questions about the meeting
- The first 20 minutes free, to check quality first
- Five export formats
Sample
A long committee meeting, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page rather than taken from any real meeting. The timestamps run from the start of the recorder 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
OM System WS-883 recordings, answered.
How quickly does a WS-883 meeting come back?
Roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio after the upload, so a 2.5-hour meeting is usually done in about five minutes. A one-hour seminar comes back in about two.
What does a 2.5-hour meeting cost?
It is 150 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on your first recording, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest with 350 minutes left over for the next ones.
How big is a WS-883 file, and does it fit?
An MP3 at 128 kbps runs about 58 MB an hour, so a long meeting is usually a few hundred megabytes at most. Uploads up to 2 GB work before a pack, and the ceiling is 5 GB or 10 hours per file.
The recorder made several files for one meeting. What now?
Upload each one. They come back as separate transcripts, each with its own chapters and timeline, which is often handy when a meeting broke for lunch. Only a single file over 10 hours has to be split.
Can it handle a meeting in another language?
Yes. 99 languages are detected without a setting, Swedish, Hebrew, Japanese and Afrikaans among them, and the meeting is transcribed in the language spoken.
What can I download, and is the recording private?
Five formats come back, TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and a deleted recording takes its transcript with it.
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