Transcribe oral histories recorded in a veterans' hall service memories, kept in writing.
An oral-history interview recorded in a veterans' hall, often two to three hours, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 2.5-hour interview is text in about 5 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and fifteen such interviews, 2,250 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
What gets recorded at the hall
A volunteer with a recorder, a back room on a weekday, and a member who finally agreed to talk about it.
Long interviews, one sitting
Veterans' interviews tend to run long because one story leads to the next. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so a whole afternoon goes in without cutting. A handheld recorder or a phone on a cloth, close to the speaker, catches more than a camera across the room.
Units, places, dates
Alongside the transcript you get the names, places, units and dates mentioned, chapters that follow each stage of service, and the questions the interview answers. Interviewer and veteran are named in the summary when they introduce themselves. Check unit numbers and place names against the audio before publishing.
The project, costed
Fifteen interviews of 2.5 hours make 2,250 minutes. That is more than the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes fits, with 2,750 left for more. Twelve monthly hall meetings of two hours, 1,440 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes on their own.
Getting it here
Upload from the recorder's card or the phone; files up to 500 MB fit the box above, and larger ones continue on the upload page. If the interviews are already on YouTube or Vimeo, paste the link. Before a first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB; a larger camera file starts once a pack is on the account.
Why oral histories sit unused
The interviews were recorded with care. They are on a card in a drawer, and the museum wants text.
✗ Interviews on a card
Hours of irreplaceable memory, unread.
- Stories nobody can search
- Families who never heard the full interview
- Unit names nobody can spell from memory
- Meeting minutes rebuilt from notes
- Video files too large to email
- Volunteers too few to type it all
✓ Interviews in writing
Each recording kept as text for the archive.
- 2.5 hours back in about 5 minutes
- Chapters for each stage of service
- Names, places and dates listed
- Speakers named in the summary
- Fifteen interviews inside the $24 pack
- DOCX for the archive and families
Sample
An oral-history interview recorded in a hall's back room.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real veteran, unit or hall is represented.
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
Veterans' hall recordings: common questions.
How long does a long interview take?
About 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 2.5-hour interview is back in about 5 minutes and a four-hour session in about 8.
What will the whole project cost?
Fifteen 2.5-hour interviews, 2,250 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Six interviews, 900 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and three, 450 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Credits never expire.
Can we transcribe our monthly meetings too?
Yes. A two-hour meeting comes back with a brief, chapters and the motions, figures and dates said. Twelve of them, 1,440 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
Some members are hard of hearing and speak loudly. Is that a problem?
Loud, clear speech transcribes well. The difficult parts are cross-talk and a television or bar noise in the background, so record in a quiet room.
An interview ran over ten hours across two days. How do we upload it?
As two files, one per day. Each file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Where is the recording processed?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Delete the file and transcript from your Library once the archive has its copy.
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