Transcribe long meetings from a Sony ICD-BX140 a simple recorder, proper minutes.
A 2-hour meeting recorded on a Sony ICD-BX140 is back as text in about 4 minutes after you upload its MP3, and the file is small enough to upload in seconds. The first 20 minutes are free; four weekly meetings of two hours are 480 minutes, which fit the $6 pack of 500 with 20 to spare.
From a pocket recorder
The ICD-BX140 is the recorder people buy for meetings. Its MP3 files are already the right shape for us.
Getting the MP3 off
The ICD-BX140 keeps recordings in built-in memory. Connect it to a computer with a USB cable and it usually appears as a drive, with recordings sorted into folders. Copy the meeting across by its date, then drop it on this page. Sony's manual lists the exact cable and folder names for your unit.
Quality setting for a long meeting
The recorder offers several MP3 quality modes. The long-play end makes tiny files and is fine for one clear voice; for a table of people, pick a higher setting so quieter voices survive. Even at 192 kbps, a two-hour MP3 is only about 173 MB, well inside this page's box.
A month of meetings, priced
One weekly meeting of two hours is 120 minutes. Four of them are 480, inside the $6 pack of 500. A month with a fifth meeting, 600 minutes, moves to the $12 pack of 2,000, which also covers two more months of the same schedule.
From recording to minutes
Each meeting comes back with a brief of what was decided and why, chapters for each agenda item with timestamps, and the names, sums and deadlines that were said. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and the chat tells you who took the action on the supplier.
Meetings recorded, minutes missing
The recorder caught every word. The minutes still have to be written by somebody.
✗ Doing it by hand
Two hours of audio, an evening of typing.
- Minutes typed while replaying the MP3
- Action owners guessed from memory
- Long-play mode losing the far end of the table
- Deadlines missed because nobody wrote them
- Last month's decision lost in a folder
- Nobody volunteers to take notes
✓ Here instead
The MP3 turns into searchable minutes.
- A two-hour meeting back in about 4 minutes
- Agenda items as timestamped chapters
- Actions, sums and deadlines listed
- First 20 minutes free
- Four meetings on the $6 pack
- Exports to DOCX for the minutes book
Sample
A two-hour team meeting, as it reads back.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not from a real meeting. The timestamps show a 2-hour meeting.
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
Sony ICD-BX140 meetings, answered.
How long does a 2-hour ICD-BX140 meeting take?
Roughly 4 minutes; the work runs at about 2 minutes for each audio hour. A short half-hour call takes about a minute.
What do four weekly meetings a month cost?
Four meetings of two hours are 480 minutes, which fit the $6 pack of 500. Packs are one-time purchases with no subscription, and unused minutes never expire.
Does the low-quality mode still work?
Usually, if one person speaks close to the recorder. For a room of voices, a higher MP3 setting gives quieter speakers a better chance. The menu wording is in the recorder's manual.
Can I send a recording that is longer than one meeting?
Yes. A file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and an MP3 from this recorder will reach the 10-hour mark long before 5 GB. Before the first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB, which an MP3 like this never comes near.
Does the meeting need to be in English?
No. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a meeting that slips between two languages is transcribed on its main one.
Which exports come back, and is the recording private?
The minutes download as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the recorder has no connection to us.
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Plug in the recorder, drop in the MP3. A first visit gets 20 minutes free.
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