Transcribe a long Sony ICD-TX800 recording the whole meeting, not just your notes.
To transcribe a long meeting recorded on a Sony ICD-TX800, connect the recorder to a computer by USB, copy the recording off it and upload that file here; five hours come back as text in about 10 minutes. Your first 20 minutes are free, and 300 minutes of meeting sit inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 200 to spare.
A clip-on recorder, a long agenda
The recorder ran all afternoon. Now read it in one sitting.
Off the recorder and onto the page
Plug the ICD-TX800 into a computer with the USB cable that came with it, and it usually appears as a drive. Open its recording folder, sort by date, and copy the long file to your desktop before you upload it. The file is usually an MP3; if you switched to a higher-quality mode, check the recording settings, because that setting makes the file larger without changing the minutes used.
Why the remote helps long meetings
The ICD-TX800 is small enough to clip to a lapel or leave in the middle of a table, and its remote lets the chair start and stop it from the head of the room. That tends to produce one long file per session rather than a dozen fragments. One long file is exactly what WhipScribe is built for: up to 10 hours or 5 GB in a single upload.
Nothing installed, nothing joining
WhipScribe has no app on the recorder and no bot in your meeting. The ICD-TX800 does the recording in the room, you choose which file to send, and the transcript is made from it afterwards. A long file can also go up from the upload page if you prefer a full-screen view while it uploads.
Five hours, worked through
A five-hour meeting is 300 minutes of audio. At about 2 minutes per audio hour, the transcript is ready roughly 10 minutes after the upload finishes. As a 128 kbps MP3, those five hours are about 288 MB (128,000 bits × 18,000 seconds ÷ 8), far below the 2 GB that applies before a first pack.
Where a recorded meeting goes quiet
The meeting was captured. The decisions are still buried in it.
✗ Left on the recorder
Most long recordings stay on the device until someone needs one sentence from them.
- Five hours of scrubbing to find one agreed date
- A file name that is only a timestamp
- Minutes drafted days later from half-remembered notes
- Services that turn down anything past 25 MB, as the OpenAI Whisper API does
- Long recordings chopped into pieces by hand
- Action items nobody can trace to a moment
✓ Copied once, uploaded once
The full session arrives as text with a brief written from what was said.
- Five hours done in roughly 10 minutes
- One file of up to 10 hours
- A chapter wherever the agenda moves on
- Dates, amounts and owners listed
- The chair and members named in key quotes
- TXT or DOCX for the minute-taker
Sample
A long committee session from a clip-on recorder.
Illustrative only: an invented committee session written for this page, with timestamps from the start of a long recorder 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
- 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
Sony ICD-TX800 recordings, the questions people ask.
How long does a five-hour ICD-TX800 meeting take to transcribe?
About 10 minutes once the upload completes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. On the public proof page, 9.31 hours finished in 1,033 seconds, so even a full day of meetings is a short wait.
What does it cost?
Five hours is 300 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. If you record a three-hour meeting every week for a quarter, thirteen of them come to 2,340 minutes and fit the $24 pack of 5,000, with room for more. Packs are one-time purchases and credits never expire.
Which file do I upload from the ICD-TX800?
The recording file itself, usually an MP3, copied from the recorder's folder when it is connected by USB. If you are unsure which file is which, the date and the file size are the quickest guides: a long meeting is the largest file from that day.
Can a single file be too long?
Each upload may be as long as 10 hours or as large as 5 GB. A session that ran past 10 hours is uploaded as two files. MP3 meeting audio rarely comes close to the size limit; before your first pack, uploads can be up to 2 GB.
What if the meeting was in another language?
No language setting is needed: 99 languages are recognised on their own. A meeting that moves between languages is detected on the main one, and the switches are handled.
Where does my recording go, and what can I download?
Your meeting is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training, and you can delete the file and transcript when you are done. The transcript downloads as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON.
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