Transcribe recordings made in a museum room by room, object by object.
A guided tour or curator talk recorded in a museum comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute tour is ready in roughly 3 minutes and a two-hour talk in about 4. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest.
What a museum does to the audio
Stone floors, high ceilings and a group on the move.
Galleries echo
Museum rooms are hard and high, so a guide's voice bounces. Add another tour passing through, a school group, footsteps on stone and the hum of climate control. A clip-on microphone on the guide, or a phone held by someone who stays close, keeps the speech clear enough for the text.
A tour in chapters
A tour moves from object to object, and the chapters follow those stops with timestamps. The brief lists the makers, dates, places and numbers said, which is the start of an audio guide script, a label rewrite or a write-up for members.
An archive, priced
Forty curator talks of an hour each come to 2,400 minutes. That belongs on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, at $0.29 an audio hour, with API access included if the archive team wants to send files from their own system.
Questions from the group
Visitors ask questions on the move, often half-heard. The guide's answers come through clearly, and the chat over the transcript can find the moment someone asked about a particular painting, quoting the passage with its time.
Why museum recordings go wrong elsewhere
Echo, movement and a tour that runs long.
✗ Where short-clip tools trip
Tools that expect a quiet desk and a short clip struggle with a guide walking through stone rooms for two hours.
- Thirty-minute ceilings on free plans
- A guide's talk typed up over a week
- No chapter for each object
- Dates and makers misheard and never checked
- A monthly plan for an occasional series
- No timestamp to find one room
✓ The tour as text
One upload per tour or talk, back in a few minutes.
- About 3 minutes for a 90-minute tour
- The first 20 minutes free
- 500 minutes on a $6 pack
- Chapters at each stop
- Makers, dates and places listed
- Exports for the web, print or archive
Sample
A guided tour, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it does not describe any real museum or object. It shows how a gallery tour 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
Museum recordings, the common questions
How long does a museum recording take to transcribe?
A recorded hour processes in about 2 minutes. A 90-minute tour is ready in roughly 3 minutes and a two-hour curator talk in about 4.
What does a set of tours or talks cost?
A single 90-minute tour fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 minutes free. Twenty hour-long talks, 1,200 minutes, go on the $12 pack of 2,000, and an archive of forty, 2,400 minutes, on the $24 pack of 5,000. A $19/month Workspace exists for a team that records every week.
How big can a tour recording be?
Single files are taken up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes up first. Pre-pack uploads stop at 2 GB, and a bigger file begins processing once a pack is on the account. A filmed tour can be large; the audio alone carries everything that gets transcribed.
Should I split a tour into one file per room?
No. Upload the whole tour as one file, and the chapters mark the rooms for you with timestamps that match the recording. Only a file past 10 hours needs to go in as two.
Can tours in other languages be transcribed?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, so a tour in Japanese, Spanish or Korean needs no setting. A tour that switches language is detected on its main language.
Which formats come back, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one run; SRT and VTT caption a filmed tour. Museum recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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Galleries, halls and stages
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