Transcribe a long recording sent with Smash the big transfer, made readable.
To transcribe a long recording someone sent you with Smash, download it from the transfer page before it expires and upload the file here; a nine-hour conference day is text in about 18 minutes. Those 540 minutes are more than the $6 pack holds, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers them with 1,460 left.
Big transfers, one transcript
Smash took the whole file. Here it becomes text.
Download before the link expires
Smash transfers stay available for a limited time, set by the sender's plan, and then the files are gone. Download the recording as soon as the email arrives. If several files were sent together, you may be offered a single archive; unzip it and upload the recordings themselves.
Big sends, a 5 GB ceiling
Smash is often used because it accepts very large files, so a recording can arrive bigger than WhipScribe takes. A nine-hour video at 2 Mbps is about 8.1 GB (2 megabits × 32,400 seconds ÷ 8), over the 5 GB limit. Extract the audio: nine hours of 128 kbps MP3 is about 518 MB, and that fits before any pack.
Not a link we fetch
A Smash link opens a transfer page with a player and a download button, not a media file. Only YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Kick, Google Drive and podcast feed links are fetched directly. Upload the downloaded recording from the box above or from the upload page.
A conference day, structured
Nine hours come back with a brief carrying the thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps for each talk and panel, and the names, numbers and dates said from the stage. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so you can find one panellist's answer without replaying the day.
Where a big transfer ends up
The file arrived. The day inside it is still nine hours long.
✗ Working from the transfer
A huge recording, a link that will expire, and tools that want short clips.
- A transfer link that stops working
- A video larger than most upload limits
- Nine hours of replay for one talk
- Talks cut by hand into separate files
- Notes from whoever stayed until the end
- Subtitles that nobody has time to type
✓ Downloaded, then uploaded
The full day as text, organised by talk.
- About 18 minutes for nine hours
- Audio extracted when the video is over 5 GB
- Chapters for each session
- Panellists named in the key quotes
- 540 minutes from the $12 pack
- SRT and VTT for the edited video
Sample
A full conference day, received as one large transfer.
An illustrative conference day composed for this page; no real speaker or event is quoted. Timestamps start with the downloaded 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
Recordings sent with Smash, the questions people ask.
How long does a nine-hour recording take?
About 18 minutes after the upload, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Downloading and uploading a large video usually takes longer than the transcription itself.
What does it cost?
Nine hours is 540 minutes, just past the $6 pack's 500, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the right one, with 1,460 left. Packs are one-time and credits never expire.
The transfer is 8 GB. What do I do?
Extract the audio track to MP3, which brings nine hours down to around 500 MB. One file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours, and before your first pack uploads can be up to 2 GB.
What about a recording past 10 hours?
Split it into two files, ideally at a break between sessions, and upload each. Each part gets its own transcript and brief.
Does the conference language matter?
99 languages, detected automatically, so a conference in Portuguese or Hebrew needs no setting. If a talk changes language partway, detection follows the main language and the switch is handled.
Is the recording kept private, and what are the exports?
A recording sent with Smash is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training. Choose TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON for the download, and you can delete the recording afterwards.
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Download it from Smash, drop it here. Nine hours, read in about eighteen minutes.
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