Transcribe recordings made on a construction site with the generator still running.
A toolbox talk or site induction recorded on a phone comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a two-hour induction is ready in roughly 4 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of that induction with hours to spare for the next briefings.
What the site does to the audio
Wind, plant and a phone in a hi-vis pocket. The briefing still comes through.
The noise you are fighting
Site recordings carry a generator hum, reversing alarms, a breaker two bays over and wind across the phone's microphone. None of that is speech, so none of it is written down. What gets transcribed is the person giving the talk and the questions from the crew, and the closer the phone is to that person, the cleaner the text.
A month of talks, priced
Say the site holds a 20-minute toolbox talk every working morning. Twenty talks in a month come to 400 minutes, which fits inside one $6 pack of 500 minutes with room for a short induction too. The credits never expire, so quiet months cost nothing.
Inductions run long
A new-starter induction often runs 90 minutes to two hours, covering the site rules, the emergency route and who to report to. Two hours processes in about 4 minutes, so the text exists before the new starters have finished the walk-round.
What the record is for
The brief lists the topics covered, the hazards that were named, and the dates and numbers said out loud, such as a delivery window or a crane lift time. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, which helps when two supervisors share a briefing.
Why site audio is hard elsewhere
Short clips and quiet rooms are what most tools expect.
✗ Tools built for the office
A recording made beside a mixer or under a scaffold is the case they handle worst, and long inductions hit their time limits.
- A 30-minute cap on the free tier
- A monthly plan for a few briefings a week
- Typing up a talk by hand after shift
- Notes from memory of what was said
- No timestamp to find one instruction
- Nothing pulled out but raw text
✓ The briefing as text
One upload per talk, and the speech comes back in order with its clock.
- Two minutes or so per audio hour
- The first 20 minutes free
- 500 minutes for $6, kept until used
- Machinery and alarms left out
- Chapters to jump between topics
- Five export formats
Sample
A morning toolbox talk, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page, not taken from a customer recording. It shows how a short site briefing 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
Site recordings, the usual questions
How long does a construction site recording take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes for each hour of audio. A 20-minute toolbox talk is done in under a minute, and a two-hour induction in roughly 4. Closing the page is fine, since the finished text lands in your Library.
What does a month of briefings cost?
Twenty talks of 20 minutes each are 400 minutes, which sits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A heavier site recording an hour a day for a month, about 1,300 minutes, would go on the $12 pack of 2,000. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free before any pack.
The recording was made on a phone video. Will it upload?
Yes. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, and before your first pack uploads go up to 2 GB. A long phone video can pass 2 GB; in that case it starts once a pack is on the account, or you can upload the audio track alone, which is far smaller.
Do I need to cut the recording up?
No. A whole briefing goes in as one file as long as it stays under 10 hours. A recording that runs longer than that goes in as two files.
Our crew speaks more than one language. Does that work?
99 languages are detected automatically, so nobody picks a setting first. A briefing is detected on its main language, and English with Tagalog switching in the same talk is handled. Regional Philippine languages such as Cebuano or Ilocano are supported, though accuracy trails the major languages, so treat that text as a fast first draft and plan one review pass.
What can I download, and where does the audio go?
One run produces TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON together. Site audio is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training, and you can delete the recording whenever you choose.
Related
Other places and long recordings
Upload the briefing. See the first 20 minutes free.
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