Transcribe recordings made in a car so the drive becomes a draft.
Dictation and long voice notes recorded on the commute come back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 45-minute drive of talking is ready in under 2 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes holds a full working week of morning and evening drives.
What the car does to the audio
Road hum, the fan and the indicator. Your voice still carries.
A small, loud room
A car is close quarters: hard glass, tyre roar on rough roads, the air conditioning fan and the tick of the indicator. A phone in a dash mount picks all of that up, but none of it is speech, so it stays out of the transcript. Rain on the roof and an open window are the two things that bury a voice most.
Thinking out loud, organised
Talking while driving tends to wander. The brief pulls out the main thread and the takeaways, chapters mark where you moved from one idea to the next, and the chat answers questions like what you said about the budget on Tuesday.
A week of commutes
Forty-five minutes each way, five days, is 450 minutes. That fits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A month of the same habit, around 1,800 minutes, belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000, which works out at $0.36 an audio hour.
Long drives, one file
A three-hour drive recorded as one memo processes in about 6 minutes. There is nothing to split as long as the file stays under 10 hours, and a phone memo of three hours is a modest file.
Why car audio goes wrong elsewhere
Voice memos are easy to make and hard to use.
✗ Memos you never play back
A long voice note sits in the phone because listening to it again takes as long as recording it.
- Built-in transcription that stops early
- A free tier that quits at half an hour
- Replaying the memo to find one idea
- Ideas scattered across a dozen files
- No timestamp to jump back to
- No summary of what you decided
✓ The drive, readable
One upload per memo, and the whole thing comes back in order.
- About 2 minutes for each hour driven
- The first 20 minutes free
- $6 for 500 minutes, one-time
- Road noise kept out of the text
- A brief and chapters for each drive
- Exports for your notes app or editor
Sample
A dictated commute note, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not a customer recording. It shows how a rambling drive-time note reads once transcribed.
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
Car recordings, the common questions
How long does a car recording take to transcribe?
Expect about 2 minutes for every hour of audio. A 30-minute memo takes about a minute, and a three-hour drive recorded in one go takes around 6. Leave whenever you like; the text will be in your Library.
What does a week or a month of commutes cost?
Two 45-minute drives a day for five days is 450 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A month of the same, about 1,800 minutes, goes on the $12 pack of 2,000. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free, and the pack picks up where that preview ended.
My memo app made a huge file. Will it upload?
The ceiling for one file is 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever it reaches first. Before your first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, and anything larger starts once a pack is on the account. Phone voice memos are compressed, so even a very long drive is usually far below that.
Should I split a long drive into parts?
No. Keep it as one file so the chapters and timestamps run from the start of the drive to the end. Splitting only comes up for a drive recorded past 10 hours, which then goes in as two files.
I switch languages when I talk to myself. Will it follow?
Language detection is automatic across 99 languages. A memo is detected on its main language, and English with Tagalog switching inside the same recording is handled, which suits a lot of Filipino commuters.
What do I get back, and does anyone else hear the memo?
Five downloads come from the one run: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Your memos are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete them at any time.
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