Transcribe a PowerPoint slide show recording from the exported video.
To transcribe a narrated PowerPoint deck, export it as a video, usually an MP4, and upload that file here; a two-and-a-half-hour recorded deck is ready in about 5 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the full 150 minutes sit comfortably inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. WhipScribe has no PowerPoint add-in: it reads the video you export, not the .pptx.
From slide show to text
The narration is stored slide by slide. The transcript reads it as one talk.
Turn the recording into one video
When you record a slide show, PowerPoint keeps the narration attached to each slide inside the presentation file, so there is nothing to upload yet. Look for the export option that creates a video (in recent versions it sits under File, then Export), keep recorded timings and narrations switched on, and choose MP4 if you are offered a choice. Check the export settings for the folder it saves to.
Pick a modest resolution
A narrated deck is mostly still slides, so the lowest quality setting on offer is plenty for transcription and exports much faster. A long deck can take a while to render either way; let it finish before you close PowerPoint, or the video ends early and so does the transcript.
What a recorded course costs
A course of sixteen narrated modules at 90 minutes each is 1,440 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers with 560 to spare. A single 2.5-hour deck uses 150 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack. Credits never expire, so the next modules can follow whenever they are recorded.
One export, one transcript timeline
Drop the exported video on upload page, and the whole talk runs as a single transcript with timestamps from the title slide to the last. Pauses while slides advance and the click of animations are skipped; the narration itself is what comes back.
Where narrated decks get stuck
The deck plays itself perfectly. Pulling the words out of it is another matter.
✗ Narration locked in the deck
Audio stored per slide is hard to search, quote or hand to an editor.
- Clicking slide by slide to replay one remark
- Speaker notes that differ from what was actually said
- A 25 MB cap on the Whisper API, well under a long deck video
- Re-recording slides just to fix the script
- No single timestamp for a point in the talk
- Dates and figures heard once and forgotten
✓ Narration as a transcript
Every slide's audio in one document you can search and reuse.
- One upload for the whole deck
- Chapters where each section of slides begins
- A list of the names, numbers and dates spoken
- The questions the talk answers, drawn out
- A chat that finds the slide where a term was defined
- Captions as SRT or VTT for the exported video
Sample
A narrated training deck, exported as one video.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real presentation. Timestamps place them inside a 2.5-hour recording.
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
PowerPoint recordings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour narrated deck take to transcribe?
About 5 minutes, because each hour of audio takes roughly 2. A 40-minute module is back in under 2 minutes, and the public proof page shows 9.31 hours finished in 1,033 seconds.
Can I upload the .pptx file instead of a video?
No. The narration sits inside the presentation file slide by slide, and WhipScribe needs an audio or video file. Export the deck as a video first, then upload that.
What does a library of recorded modules cost?
On a first visit the first 20 minutes are free, and a pack transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped. Sixteen 90-minute modules, 1,440 minutes in all, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes; above 2,000 minutes the $24 pack of 5,000 is the one to buy. Prices are in US dollars and the packs are one-time.
The exported video is larger than 2 GB. Will it go through?
A narrated deck exported as one video may run up to 10 hours or weigh up to 5 GB. Until your first pack, the upload ceiling is 2 GB, so a heavier export waits for a pack on the account. Exporting again at a lower resolution usually brings a narrated deck well under that.
Does WhipScribe connect to PowerPoint or Microsoft 365?
No. There is no add-in, plugin or Microsoft 365 connection, and OneDrive links are not fetched. Export the video, then upload it, or paste a YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link if the recording is already published there.
What about languages, exports and privacy for a narrated deck?
99 languages are recognised automatically, including a deck narrated partly in English and partly in Spanish. Presenters are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and the text leaves as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Your recording is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
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Export the deck as a video. The first 20 minutes of narration are free.
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