Transcribe a recording made in a mosque khutbah, dars and halaqa.
A Friday khutbah of 20 to 45 minutes comes back in about a minute, and a two-hour evening lecture in about 4. The first 20 minutes are free, so a short khutbah often costs nothing, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers a run of longer lectures.
The prayer hall and the microphone
A carpeted hall with a lapel mic is kinder to speech than most rooms.
How the room sounds
Carpet and a full hall soak up much of the echo, and many mosques record from the imam's lapel or minbar microphone through the PA. The weak spots are a phone placed far back, the fan noise in summer, and questions from the floor that never reached a microphone.
Arabic and the local language
Many khutbahs open in Arabic and continue in English, Urdu, Turkish, Malay or another language. The recording is detected on its main language, so a talk that is mostly English comes back as English, and Arabic phrases inside it are the passages worth checking against the audio.
Recitation and explanation
Quran recitation is melodic, close to chant, and it may come back partial or skipped, the way music does. The explanation that follows it, the tafsir, the reminders and the answers to questions, is ordinary speech and transcribes well.
A Ramadan series on one pack
Thirty nightly talks of an hour each add up to 1,800 minutes. That fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, with 200 left for the Eid khutbah and anything after it, and the credits do not expire at the end of the month.
What usually happens to these recordings
A talk worth keeping often stays as a long audio file nobody can search.
✗ Left as audio
The lecture is posted, and anyone looking for one point scrubs through an hour of audio.
- Scrubbing an hour for one hadith
- Notes taken by hand in the hall
- Tools that cap a file at 25 MB
- Arabic phrases mangled by captions
- Nothing to send to people who missed it
- A subscription for a weekly talk
✓ With the text in hand
The talk becomes something to read, search and share in the community's main language.
- Near 2 minutes per hour of audio
- Chapters by topic, with times
- Questions from the audience listed
- The speaker named in the brief
- $6 for 500 minutes, then $12 for 2,000
- Text for a newsletter or website
Sample
An evening lecture, as it reads.
This excerpt is illustrative, written for this page, and comes from no real lecture or mosque. Arabic phrases are shown as they might appear inside an English talk.
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
Mosque recordings, the usual questions.
How quickly does a khutbah or lecture come back?
At about 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 30-minute khutbah is usually ready in about a minute, and a two-hour lecture in about 4 minutes.
What does a series of lectures cost?
Someone new to WhipScribe gets the first 20 minutes free. A $6 pack holds 500 minutes, a little over eight hours of lectures. A Ramadan series of thirty one-hour talks needs 1,800 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers.
How is a talk in two languages handled?
It is transcribed on its main language. A talk that is mostly Urdu or mostly English comes back in that language, and the Arabic passages inside it are the part to review. Plan a read-through if the two languages are evenly mixed.
Will Quran recitation be transcribed?
Treat it like music: melodic recitation may come back partly or not at all. The spoken explanation, reminders and answers are transcribed in full.
Can I paste a link instead of uploading?
Yes for YouTube, including live replays, plus Google Drive and podcast feeds. A replay from Facebook or Instagram Live needs downloading first, then uploading. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and before the first pack uploads go up to 2 GB.
What can I download, and who can see the recording?
You can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all produced together. The talk is handled privately: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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