Transcribe a recording made in a radio studio the talk between the records.
A three-hour radio show recorded in the studio comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with presenters, guests and callers kept and the songs left out. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the remaining 160 minutes of the show.
What a radio recording holds
Studio microphones, compressed phone lines and a lot of music.
Two kinds of voice
Presenters sit on broadcast microphones and sound close and full. Callers arrive through a phone hybrid, narrow and sometimes crackly. Both transcribe; the caller lines are where a name or number is most worth checking against the audio.
Music is left out
Songs, jingles, idents and music beds are not transcribed, so a three-hour recording with an hour of records comes back as the two hours of talk, each part placed at its own time in the file. Spoken ad reads, and a presenter talking over the opening bars of a song, are kept.
Matching the station log
Every passage carries the time it was said from the start of the file. Line that up with the log and you can find a disputed on-air remark, an ad read or a competition answer in a minute rather than scrubbing. Producers also use the text to lift a segment for the station's podcast feed.
A month of weekday shows
Twenty-two weekday shows of three hours each run to 66 hours, or 3,960 minutes. That is past the $12 pack, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers the month, with 1,040 minutes for specials.
Logger audio without text
The logger keeps every hour. Nobody can search it.
✗ Searching by ear
A complaint arrives about something said on Tuesday's show, and someone scrubs three hours to find it.
- Scrubbing logger audio by ear
- Song lyrics garbling the captions
- Callers' names guessed at
- Services that stop at sixty minutes
- No timestamps to quote the log
- A monthly plan per presenter
✓ Finding it in the text
The show comes back as text with times, chapters and the callers' questions.
- Six minutes or so for a show
- Talk kept, records left out
- Callers' questions listed
- Times that match the log
- Packs of 500 to 5,000 minutes
- Text for the station's podcast page
Sample
A call-in hour, as text.
An illustrative sample, written for this page; no real station, presenter or caller is quoted. The jump in times marks a song.
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
Radio studio recordings, common questions.
How long does a three-hour show take?
Six minutes, give or take. Speed runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, and music sections do not slow it down.
What does a show cost to transcribe?
First-time visitors have the first 20 minutes free. A three-hour show is 180 minutes, so the rest fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A month of weekday shows, about 3,960 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
Are the songs transcribed?
No. Music, jingles and sound effects are not turned into text. Presenters, guests, callers and spoken ads are.
Can I send a whole day of logger audio?
Files are accepted up to 10 hours or 5 GB each. A full 24-hour log goes in as three files, and cutting it at the top of an hour keeps each file's times easy to match against the log. Pre-pack uploads are capped at 2 GB, and a heavier file waits until a pack is on the account.
Which languages work on air?
99 languages are detected automatically. A show is detected on its main language, and a programme that switches between English and Tagalog is handled.
Which exports are there, and who sees the audio?
Exports cover TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Broadcast audio stays private: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
More broadcast and long-talk pages
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