Transcribe long studio sessions recorded on a RØDE NT1 5th Generation the export from your DAW, read end to end.
Five hours of narration or interview recorded through a RØDE NT1 5th Generation come back as text in about 10 minutes once you export the take from your recording software and upload it. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, the 300 minutes use a $6 pack of 500, and any export up to 10 hours or 5 GB goes up as one file.
From the session to the text
The NT1 sends audio to the computer; your recording program writes the file. That export is what we read.
Where the take lives
Over USB the NT1 5th Generation hands a 32-bit float signal to the computer, and the program you record in, whether a DAW, an audio editor or RØDE's own software, keeps the session. A DAW session file is a project, not audio, so bounce or export the take to WAV or MP3 before you upload; check the export settings for format and bit depth.
Float size, in numbers
One mono 32-bit float track at 48 kHz grows by about 691 MB an hour, so five hours is near 3.5 GB. That fits the 5 GB ceiling and starts once a pack is on the account. A 24-bit export of the same take is about 2.6 GB, and a 128 kbps MP3 is roughly 290 MB.
Finding the retakes
Narrators repeat a line when they stumble. Read against the script, the transcript shows each repeated sentence with its timestamp, so the editor jumps to the good take instead of auditioning every one. The chat answers questions such as where the third chapter starts in the raw session.
What a long session returns
Besides the text you get a brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps, and the names, numbers and dates read aloud. For a long studio interview, host and guest are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and SRT and VTT files are ready if the session becomes a video.
Studio audio elsewhere
A clean studio take is the easiest audio to transcribe and often the largest file to send.
✗ What usually happens
The take is perfect; the file is enormous.
- OpenAI's Whisper API halting at 25 MB per upload
- Float exports turned away for size
- Hours of narration checked by ear
- Retakes hunted on the waveform
- Sessions cut into parts to upload
- Script and recording compared line by line
✓ Here
One export comes back as one timed document.
- Exports as large as 5 GB or as long as 10 hours
- About 10 minutes for 5 hours of takes
- Every repeated line findable by time
- Read-aloud numbers listed for checking
- No charge for the session's opening 20 minutes
- 200 minutes left on the $6 pack
Sample
A narration session with a retake, as it reads back.
Illustrative only: written for this page from no real book or session. The timestamps show a five-hour studio day.
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
RØDE NT1 5th Generation recordings, the common questions.
How long do five hours of NT1 takes take to transcribe?
Roughly 10 minutes, since every hour of a take needs about 2. The public proof page shows a 9.31-hour file done in 1,033 seconds.
What does a long narration project cost?
The first 20 minutes on a first visit are free. One five-hour session uses 300 minutes of the $6 pack of 500, and a finished ten-hour book recorded across several days is 600 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000.
Should I upload the float file or a smaller export?
Either, as long as it is under 5 GB and 10 hours, and under 2 GB before your first pack. Float matters for the edit, not for the words, so a 24-bit WAV or an MP3 is quicker to send.
Can I upload the DAW project?
No. A project file holds the arrangement, not the sound. Export the session or bounce the track to an audio file, then upload that.
Can the narration be in a language other than English?
Any of 99 languages is detected on its own. A narrator reading in Spanish, Korean or Swedish needs no setting, and English terms inside another language are handled.
Which exports come back, and is the narration kept private?
One NT1 session yields TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Narration is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training, and the microphone and its software have no connection to us.
Related
Other studio microphones and long takes
Export the NT1 session and send it over. Read the session's opening 20 minutes free.
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