Transcribe long ShareX screen recordings hours of Windows sessions, read in minutes.
Upload the ShareX screen recording as it was saved, usually an MP4, and a 6.5-hour session on Windows is transcribed in about 13 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on a first visit, and the 390 minutes fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 110 left over.
Screen session to text
ShareX records the screen. What makes a long session worth keeping is what was said while it ran.
Check the audio first
A screen recording only has speech if an audio source was selected before recording; check the screen recorder options in ShareX for the microphone or system audio. A recording with no sound has nothing to transcribe. If someone else is on the call, recording it needs the consent the law where you are requires.
Find the file
ShareX saves recordings to its screenshots folder, which is usually inside Documents unless you changed it in the settings, and the output is usually an MP4 written through FFmpeg. Mostly static screens compress well, so a long session is often smaller than camera video of the same length. If a recording stopped and restarted during the day, upload each file; every part gets its own transcript and timestamps.
A run of long sessions
Twelve working sessions of 3 hours are 2,160 minutes, just past the $12 pack, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers them with 2,840 left. A single 6.5-hour session fits the $6 pack.
What comes back
A brief with the takeaways, chapters with timestamps for each stretch of work, and the names, numbers and dates said aloud. The chat over the transcript finds the moment a decision was made, and DOCX gives you a document to tidy into a how-to guide. Recordings over 500 MB go on the upload page, up to 5 GB.
Long screen recordings
Six and a half hours of screen and voice, and the one explanation you need is somewhere in the middle.
✗ Scrubbing the recording
The session is saved; nobody can search it.
- Hours of video to skim
- A 25 MB Whisper API cap
- Recordings split to upload
- Decisions lost in the middle
- Notes written after the fact
- Silent recordings found too late
✓ A transcript of the session
What was said, with times.
- One MP4 as saved
- About 13 minutes for 6.5 hours
- Chapters with timestamps
- Questions answered by chat
- Names and numbers listed
- $6 for one long session
Sample
A long working session recorded with ShareX.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page, not from a real session. Timestamps run through a 6.5-hour screen 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
- 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
ShareX recordings, answered.
How long does a 6.5-hour ShareX recording take?
About 13 minutes, since transcription runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A 3-hour session takes about 6 minutes.
What will a run of sessions cost?
On a first visit the first 20 minutes are free, and a longer session is previewed until a pack transcribes the rest. One 6.5-hour session is 390 minutes of the $6 pack. Twelve 3-hour sessions fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
How big can the recording be?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB start right away, and a larger one starts once a pack is on the account. A session over 10 hours goes up as two files.
Is WhipScribe built into ShareX?
No. There is no ShareX integration, plugin or upload destination for WhipScribe. You record, find the file and upload it.
Can the session be in German or Japanese?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and English technical terms inside the speech are kept.
What can I export, and where is the session processed?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON are all included. Screen recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. A team that records every week can use the $19 a month Workspace.
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