Transcribe long recordings stored in Seafile research archives on your own server.
Download the recording from your Seafile library, through the web interface, the desktop client or a download link, and upload it here; a 2.5-hour focus group is transcribed in about 5 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and the session uses 150 minutes of the $6 pack of 500, leaving 350.
Your server, one file at a time
You chose self-hosted storage on purpose. Only the file you pick leaves it, and only to be transcribed.
Three ways to get the file
Download it from the library in the web interface, copy it from a synced folder on your computer, or open a download link someone shared with you and save the file. WhipScribe cannot fetch a Seafile link itself, so the file always comes through your own machine.
Encrypted libraries
If the library is encrypted, open it with its password in the web interface or client first, as you normally would, and download the file. WhipScribe never asks for your server address, account or library password.
A study's worth of sessions
Thirty focus groups of 2.5 hours are 4,500 minutes, more than the $12 pack holds. The $24 pack of 5,000 covers the study with 500 minutes left for follow-up interviews.
Text to file back
Each session returns a timestamped transcript, chapters, a brief with the thesis and takeaways, the questions the group discussed, and the names, figures and dates mentioned. Participants are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters when they are named in the room.
An archive you cannot search
Thirty focus groups in a library, and the only index is the file name and the date.
✗ Stored, not searchable
Every session archived, none of them readable.
- Hours of audio per session
- Search that sees only file names
- Coding done while listening
- Quotes checked by replaying
- No timestamps to cite
- A backlog nobody gets through
✓ Stored and transcribed
Download once, upload once, file the text beside the audio.
- About 5 minutes per session
- An M4A of about 144 MB
- Chapters by discussion topic
- Questions discussed, listed
- DOCX or TXT back in the library
- $24 for thirty sessions
Sample
A long focus group stored in a Seafile library.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not from any real study.
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
Seafile recordings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour recording from Seafile take?
About 5 minutes after the upload, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. Downloading from your own server first is usually quick on the same network.
Can I paste a Seafile share link?
No. Links work for YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Kick, Google Drive and podcast feeds only. Download the file from Seafile and upload it.
What does a study cost?
The opening 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor; past that, the session is previewed and a pack transcribes the rest from the preview's end. One 2.5-hour session uses 150 minutes of the $6 pack. Thirty sessions fit the $24 pack of 5,000. No subscription, and credits never expire.
Is there a Seafile plugin or connector?
No. There is no plugin, connector or server access. You download the recording and upload it, so your Seafile setup stays exactly as it is.
What sizes and formats work?
Common audio and video files such as MP3, M4A, WAV and MP4 upload as they are. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB; before a first pack the limit is 2 GB. The box here takes 500 MB and the main upload page takes the rest. Longer than 10 hours means two files.
What happens to the recording?
Files are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training. Download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON to file next to the audio; 99 languages are detected automatically.
Related
Research recordings and other storage
Download it from your library. Two and a half hours, about five minutes.
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