Transcribe long recordings archived on a Synology NAS years of audio on the shelf, searchable at last.
To transcribe recordings kept on a Synology NAS, download them through the NAS file manager in your browser or copy them from the mapped network share, then upload each file here; a 6-hour recording is text in about 12 minutes. An archive of 45 interviews of 100 minutes, 4,500 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
The box in the cupboard
The NAS has kept every recording for years. Nobody can find anything in them.
Two ways off the NAS
From a browser, the NAS file manager (File Station on most Synology setups) lets you select a recording and download it. On the office network, the shared folder is often mapped as a drive, so you can drag the file straight into the upload box. There is no Synology package or connector for WhipScribe.
Upload from where you are
On the office network, uploading straight from the mapped share works because the NAS answers quickly. Over a remote connection, copy the file to your computer first. Up to 500 MB goes into the box above; larger files continue on the upload page.
Pricing the archive
Forty-five interviews of 100 minutes each make 4,500 minutes. The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers them with 500 minutes left over, enough for another five interviews of the same length. Credits never expire, so you can work through the shelf a folder at a time.
Text that lives beside the audio
Each recording comes back with a brief, chapters with timestamps, the names, figures and dates said, and the questions it answers. Export TXT or JSON and save it in the same NAS folder as the recording, so the file and its words stay together.
Why archives stop being used
Every interview is backed up twice. Not one of them is searchable.
✗ Audio on a shelf
Folders by year, files by date, memory as the index.
- Folders named 2017, 2018, misc
- Six-hour files nobody opens
- Searching by asking whoever recorded it
- Splitting files for tools with small caps
- Paying monthly to clear an old backlog
- Transcripts in one place, audio in another
✓ Audio with its transcript
Copy, upload, and save the text back to the same folder.
- Six hours back in about 12 minutes
- Files up to 5 GB in one piece
- 4,500 minutes inside one $24 pack
- Chapters to tell long sessions apart
- TXT and JSON beside each recording
- Credits that wait between folders
Sample
A long archived interview, copied off a Synology NAS.
Written for this page as an illustration; it does not come from a real archive.
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
Synology NAS recordings, answered.
Is there a Synology app for WhipScribe?
No. There is no package, plugin or sync job. You download or copy each recording and upload it; the transcripts are kept in your WhipScribe Library.
How long will a 6-hour recording take?
About 12 minutes once uploaded, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. On a public proof page, a 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds.
What will the whole archive cost?
Forty-five 100-minute interviews, 4,500 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A smaller folder of 1,800 minutes fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and one long file fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
Some old files are WAV and over 2 GB. Will they go up?
They will once a pack is on the account, since the pre-pack limit is 2 GB. Any file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours. Converting a large WAV to MP3 or M4A also makes the upload much faster.
The archive is in several languages. Do I sort it first?
No. 99 languages are detected automatically, file by file. Afrikaans and regional Philippine languages come back as a fast first draft, so plan one review pass for those.
Where do the copies go?
NAS copies are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training. The originals stay on your NAS; delete the uploaded copies from your Library whenever you like.
Related
More for archives and local storage
Copy a folder off the NAS. Six hours read in about twelve minutes.
Transcribe my archiveOperated by Neugence Technology Pvt. Ltd. · contact@whipscribe.com · Security · Privacy · Terms