Transcribe recordings made in a concert hall and keep the talk, not the symphony.
A pre-concert talk or lecture recorded in a concert hall comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 45-minute talk is ready in about 90 seconds and a two-hour lecture-recital in about 4 minutes. Music is not transcribed, and the first 20 minutes are free.
What the hall does to the audio
A room tuned for an orchestra, and one person speaking in it.
Built for reverberation
A concert hall is designed to let sound ring, which flatters a string section and smears a spoken voice. A talk on the stage microphone or a feed from the desk records well. A phone in row twenty catches more of the room than the speaker, so get as close as the venue allows.
When the recording keeps going
A lecture-recital moves between speech and playing, and some recordings run on into the concert. The music is not transcribed, so the text holds only what was said, with timestamps that still match the original file.
A season of talks
Thirty pre-concert talks of 40 minutes come to 1,200 minutes. That belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, at $0.36 an audio hour, and the credits stay on the account until next season.
Names spelled out
Talks about music are dense with composers, works, opus numbers, dates and performers. The brief lists the names, numbers and dates said, each with a timestamp, so a programme editor can check every one against the audio.
Why concert hall recordings go wrong elsewhere
Music and speech in one file, and a long echo.
✗ What usually happens
Tools that type every sound turn an orchestra into nonsense and give up on the length.
- Music guessed into words
- Free tiers sized for a 30-minute clip
- Cutting the talk out of the concert by hand
- No timestamps for the programme note
- Composer names typed from memory
- A monthly plan for a seasonal series
✓ The talk as text
One upload, and only the spoken parts come back.
- About 90 seconds for a 45-minute talk
- The first 20 minutes free
- $12 for 2,000 minutes, no subscription
- Music left out of the text
- Works and dates listed
- Exports for the programme or the archive
Sample
A pre-concert talk, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any venue's recording. It shows how a talk before a concert reads.
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
Concert hall recordings, the common questions
How long does a concert hall recording take to transcribe?
The rate is about 2 minutes of processing per audio hour. A 45-minute talk is ready in about 90 seconds; a two-hour lecture-recital in about 4 minutes.
What does a season of talks cost?
One 45-minute talk is mostly covered by the first 20 minutes free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes picks up the rest. Thirty talks of 40 minutes, 1,200 minutes, go on the $12 pack of 2,000. The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes suits a venue archiving several seasons at once.
The desk recorded the whole evening. Will it upload?
One upload holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever line it crosses first. Before buying anything you can upload up to 2 GB, and a larger recording starts when a pack is on the account. A high-resolution multitrack export can be large, so a stereo mixdown or the talk alone is the easier upload.
Do I have to trim the concert off the end?
No. The music is not transcribed, so a recording that runs from the talk into the performance comes back with the talk's text and nothing invented over the music. Only a file past 10 hours needs splitting.
What about talks given in other languages?
99 languages are detected automatically, including Japanese, Korean, Swedish and Portuguese. A talk is detected on its main language, so a German lecture with Italian titles in it is transcribed as German.
Which exports can I use, and who sees the recording?
Each run hands back TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings from the hall are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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