Transcribe a long recording you trimmed in Fission the dead air is gone, now get the words.
A recording you trimmed in Rogue Amoeba's Fission transcribes as soon as you save it and upload the file: a 4.5-hour panel takes about 9 minutes, and its 270 minutes fit the $6 pack of 500 with 230 to spare. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and any single file can run to 10 hours or 5 GB.
From Fission to a transcript
Fission is where you cut the silence and the false starts. The words you kept are the next job.
Save the edit as a file you can find
Fission edits the audio file you open and can save the result in the format you choose; MP3, AAC and WAV are common picks, and the exact list depends on your version, so check the save or export options. For a long recording, a compressed format keeps the upload small. Note the folder you save to, often the one the original came from.
Upload it, small or large
The box above takes a file up to 500 MB. A long WAV can pass that, so a bigger file continues on the main upload page, which still accepts up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB; a file over that starts once a pack is on the account.
Pricing a season of edited episodes
One 4.5-hour panel is 270 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500. A producer who trims twelve 2.5-hour episodes a month has 30 hours, or 1,800 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 covers with 200 left. Packs are one-time purchases and the credits never expire.
What the edit turns into
A brief with the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps that land on the segments you kept, the names, numbers and dates spoken, and the questions the recording answers. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and a chat lets you ask the transcript where a topic came up.
Where long Fission edits wait
The trim took twenty minutes. Typing four and a half hours would take the rest of the week.
✗ Edited, but still only audio
A clean file nobody can search, quote or skim.
- Hours of speech typed from the edit
- Show notes written from memory
- A WAV too big for short-clip tools
- Quotes found by scrubbing the timeline
- Captions keyed in line by line
- The edit re-split to fit an upload box
✓ Saved, uploaded, read
The trimmed file returns as text with a brief on top.
- About 9 minutes for 4.5 hours
- One file kept whole, up to 10 hours
- 270 minutes from the $6 pack
- Chapters at every kept segment
- Names and figures listed
- SRT and VTT ready for captions
Sample
A long panel trimmed in Fission.
An illustrative sample written for this page, not from a real recording. Timestamps count from the start of the saved Fission 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
- 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
Fission files, answered.
How long does a 4.5-hour Fission file take?
About 9 minutes once the upload finishes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A shorter 90-minute edit is back in about 3 minutes.
Which Fission format should I save in?
Any common audio format the upload accepts works, and MP3 or AAC keeps the file small. If you saved a format the box refuses, open it in Fission again and save a copy as MP3 or WAV; the options vary by version.
Is there a Fission plugin or export button for WhipScribe?
No. WhipScribe has no integration with Fission or any Rogue Amoeba app. You save the file in Fission, then upload it here.
What if the edit is longer than 10 hours?
Use Fission to split it into two files and upload both; each file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a first pack, a file over 2 GB waits until a pack is on the account.
What does a long edit cost?
270 minutes for a 4.5-hour panel comes from the $6 pack of 500. Thirty hours of episodes in a month is 1,800 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000, and a full back catalogue of 80 hours, 4,800 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
Does the music bed get transcribed?
No. Music and sound effects are not transcribed; the speech is. Your edit is processed on our own servers, and recordings are never used for training.
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