Transcribe a Mandarin podcast and publish every episode as searchable Chinese text.
A 2-hour Mandarin podcast episode recorded in the United States is transcribed in about 4 minutes, from the audio file or straight from the show's RSS feed, with Mandarin detected automatically. A back catalogue of 60 episodes averaging 75 minutes is 4,500 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
For the producer
Listeners search in Chinese characters. A two-hour conversation they cannot search is invisible to them.
Show notes in one pass
The brief names the episode's thesis and takeaways and lists the questions it answers, which is most of a show-notes draft. Edit the tone, add your sponsor read and links, and publish; the full text can sit under the player so listeners who prefer reading can skim the conversation.
Captions for the video cut
Download SRT or VTT for the YouTube version, so viewers on muted phones follow the conversation. Intro music and stingers are not transcribed; the talk is.
The archive from the feed
Paste the podcast's RSS feed and pick the episodes, or upload a long master WAV through the upload page. Episodes stay as single files up to 10 hours each.
Find the quote you half remember
Ask the chat for the episode where a guest talked about moving to Seattle, and it answers from the transcripts with the timestamp, ready for a clip or a newsletter.
Why Chinese podcasts stay unfound
Great conversations, audio only, and a search engine that cannot hear them.
✗ Audio-only episodes
The host records, edits and publishes, and the episode page carries three lines of description and nothing a search can index.
- Show notes written from memory
- No Chinese captions on the video version
- Guests asking for a quote you cannot find
- English-first tools that mangle Mandarin
- Old episodes nobody can search
- A monthly subscription for a weekly show
✓ Every episode with text
Each episode becomes Chinese text with chapters, a brief and captions, so the archive works for listeners and for search.
- Full transcript in Chinese characters
- Chapter timestamps ready to paste
- The host and each guest named in the summary
- SRT and VTT for YouTube
- Chat across the transcript for quotes
- One-time packs that never expire
Sample output
A two-host conversation, an hour in.
Written for this page as an illustration; no real show or host. Gloss: "Welcome back to this episode"; "Today we're talking about the first year after arriving in the US"; "Honestly, the hardest part wasn't the language"; "Our guest works in tech in the Bay Area"; "If you liked this episode, subscribe."
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
Mandarin podcasts, answered.
How long does a two-hour episode take?
About 4 minutes. A 150-minute interview takes about 5, and a short 45-minute bonus episode is done in a minute and a half, because the pace is about 2 minutes per hour of audio, and pasting a feed link skips the upload entirely.
What does a weekly show and its archive cost?
Four 100-minute episodes a month are 400 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A back catalogue of 60 episodes at 75 minutes, 4,500 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, and a shorter run of 25 such episodes, 1,875 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Credits do not expire, so the archive can be worked through at your own pace.
Will the transcript be in simplified characters?
The transcript is written in Chinese characters as Mandarin is recognised; the samples on this page are in simplified characters. English words the hosts drop into the conversation are kept as English.
Do I have to upload, or can I paste the feed?
Yes. RSS feeds, YouTube links (including live replays) and Google Drive share links all work. For a show hosted somewhere else, download the episode and upload the file.
Is there a free try?
New visitors get the first 20 minutes free. A longer episode is previewed, and a pack from $6 transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.
Which files come back, and who sees the audio?
You get TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Episodes are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters for unreleased episodes.
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