Transcribe a long iPhone voice memo without trimming it first.
To transcribe a long iPhone voice memo, share it out of Voice Memos as its M4A file and upload it here whole: a 2-hour memo comes back in about 4 minutes, and one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of a memo up to about eight hours long.
From the phone to text
A memo that ran for hours, read in minutes.
Getting the memo off the phone
Open the memo in Voice Memos, tap the share button and choose Save to Files, or AirDrop it to a Mac. Either way you get an M4A. From Safari on the iPhone, the upload button on this page can pick that file straight out of Files, so a computer is optional.
Size is rarely a problem
Voice Memos saves compressed audio by default, so even a memo several hours long usually sits far below the 2 GB that uploads before a pack. If you switched the app to lossless quality, files grow several times larger; check the size in Files, and remember the ceiling after a pack is 5 GB.
Finding one sentence in three hours
Scrubbing a long waveform on a phone screen for one remark is slow and easy to get wrong. The transcript is searchable, every line carries its timestamp, and chapters split the memo by topic, so you go to the minute you need instead of dragging a playhead.
What the memo turns into
Beyond the text you get a brief with the main point and takeaways, the names, numbers and dates spoken, and a chat you can ask about the recording. That suits the memos people leave running: a class, an interview, a site walk or a long family conversation.
Long memos on the phone itself
The phone records hours well and reads them back poorly.
✗ Working through it on the iPhone
A long memo is easy to record and hard to use once it ends.
- Dragging a playhead across a three-hour waveform
- Replaying a passage to catch one figure
- No chapters to jump between topics
- Notes typed on the same small screen
- Copying parts into another app by hand
- Free tools that stop before the memo ends
✓ The same memo here
One upload of the M4A, one transcript with one clock.
- Uploads straight from the Files app
- About 2 minutes per hour of audio
- Chapters and a searchable transcript
- Speakers named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- The first 20 minutes free
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON
Sample
A long voice memo from a site walk.
Illustrative sample written for this page, not a real memo. It shows lines from a phone recording that ran through a two-hour walkthrough of a building.
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
Long voice memos, the common questions.
How do I get a long voice memo off my iPhone to transcribe it?
Open the memo, tap share, and choose Save to Files or AirDrop. The file is an M4A. Upload it from Safari on the phone or from a computer; a Google Drive share link works too if you keep memos there.
How long does a long memo take?
Processing runs near 2 minutes per audio hour. A 90-minute memo is ready in about 3 minutes, and a memo that ran all afternoon, say four hours, in about 8.
What does a 3-hour voice memo cost?
180 minutes. After the first 20 minutes free, the rest comes out of a $6 pack of 500 minutes, with plenty left for the next memo. If you record hours every week, the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes halves the hourly rate to $0.36.
Do I need to trim or split a long memo first?
No. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and before your first pack the upload limit is 2 GB, which a compressed memo almost never reaches. Leaving it whole keeps one running clock from start to finish.
What languages can the memo be in?
Any of 99 languages, detected without a setting. If the memo moves between English and Tagalog it is handled, and a memo that changes language is detected on its main language.
Which exports do I get, and who hears the memo?
Five formats: TXT and DOCX for reading, SRT and VTT for captions, JSON for scripts. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a memo with its transcript at any time.
Related
Other long recordings from a phone
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