Transcribe recordings made in the living room and turn the sessions into a manuscript.
Memoir dictation and family interviews recorded in the living room come back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute session is ready in roughly 3 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of that session and several after it.
What the living room does to the audio
Soft chairs help. The television does not.
A kinder room than most
Sofas, curtains and rugs soak up echo, so a living room is often the cleanest place in the house to record. The trouble is everything else: a television in the next room, a dog, a clock, a grandchild with a toy. Pause the television, sit near the phone, and the speech comes through.
Dictating a memoir
A memoir dictated in hour-long sittings grows quickly. Chapters with timestamps mark each story, and the brief lists the people, places and years mentioned, so the sessions can be sorted into an outline before anyone writes a line.
Thirty sittings, priced
Thirty sessions of an hour each come to 1,800 minutes. That sits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, which costs $0.36 an audio hour. Minutes never expire, so a project that takes a year costs the same as one that takes a month.
Ask the transcript
The chat over the transcript answers questions such as which session covered the move abroad, or what was said about the first job. It quotes the passage with its timestamp so you can go back to the audio.
Why home sessions stall elsewhere
Dictating is fast. Getting the words out is not.
✗ The usual route
Hours of sessions sit in a folder because listening back and typing takes far longer than talking.
- Typing an hour of talk takes most of a day
- Free tiers that stop at 30 minutes
- Phone transcription that drops long memos
- No chapters to find a story again
- No record of which session held what
- A monthly plan for a part-time project
✓ Sessions as text
One upload per sitting, and each one comes back ready to edit.
- About 3 minutes for a 90-minute sitting
- The first 20 minutes free
- 2,000 minutes for $12, one-time
- Speakers named in the summary and chapters
- People, places and years listed
- DOCX ready for a manuscript
Sample
A memoir sitting, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not drawn from anyone's recording. It shows how a dictated memoir session 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
Living room recordings, the common questions
How long does a living room recording take to transcribe?
Plan on about 2 minutes per recorded hour. A 90-minute memoir session is done in about 3 minutes, and you can leave the page while it runs.
What does a memoir project cost?
One 90-minute sitting fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 minutes free. A project of thirty one-hour sittings, 1,800 minutes, goes on the $12 pack of 2,000. All prices are in US dollars and there is no subscription.
How large can a home recording be?
A single file is accepted up to 10 hours long or 5 GB in size, whichever is reached first. Until a first pack is bought, uploads go up to 2 GB, and a heavier file starts once a pack is on the account. An audio recording of a single sitting is almost always far smaller than that.
Does a long sitting need splitting?
Only if it runs past 10 hours, which a sitting at home never does. Keep each session as one file so its chapters and timestamps line up with the recording.
Can the storyteller speak a language other than English?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, including Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Swedish and Tagalog. A session is detected on its main language, and English with Tagalog switching in one recording is handled.
Which exports can I use, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all from one run, with DOCX the easiest to edit into a manuscript. Home recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
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