Transcribe a seminar room recording the whole half-day, echo included.
A half-day seminar recorded in a seminar room runs three to four hours, and four hours comes back as text in about 8 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of the session with room for a second one.
What a seminar room does to sound
Hard walls, a projector fan and a presenter who walks. The words still come through.
Echo is the main enemy
Seminar rooms are built for screens, not sound: glass, whiteboards and bare walls bounce the voice back a fraction of a second late. A recorder on the lectern catches the presenter cleanly. A phone on the back table catches the echo too, and the transcript is still readable, with the odd quiet aside missed.
Questions from the floor
The person asking a question is usually far from the microphone and facing away from it. Expect their words to come through thinner than the presenter's. The answer that follows tends to repeat the question, and the brief lists the questions the session answers so you can find each exchange by time.
Four hours, one pack
A half-day of 240 minutes uses less than half of a $6 pack of 500 minutes. A morning and an afternoon session together, 480 minutes, still fit inside it. Credits never expire, so the next seminar draws from the same pack. Start on upload page or drop the file here.
Notes nobody had to take
The text comes back with a brief that states each presenter's main point, chapters at every change of speaker or topic, and the names, figures and dates said aloud. Presenters are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so the handout writes itself from the recording.
Why seminar recordings stall
The recording exists. The notes never get written.
✗ The usual fate of a seminar file
Someone presses record, the file lands on a laptop, and it sits there because nobody has four hours to play it back.
- A free tool that stops at 30 minutes
- Cutting the file into chunks to fit an upload limit
- Replaying the echoey middle hour to find one figure
- Handouts written from memory
- Questions from the floor lost entirely
- No way to point a colleague to the right minute
✓ The same file, sent once
The whole half-day goes up as one recording and comes back as one document with one running clock.
- Four hours back in about 8 minutes
- The first 20 minutes free, then a pack
- 240 minutes of a 500-minute $6 pack
- Chapters at each presenter change
- Questions from the floor listed in the brief
- TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one run
Sample
A morning session, as the transcript reads.
This sample is illustrative: we wrote it for this page, and it comes from no customer recording. Timestamps run from the moment the recorder started.
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
Seminar room recordings, the questions people ask.
How long does a half-day seminar take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 4-hour seminar is ready in roughly 8 minutes and a full day of 7 hours in about 14. You can close the tab, and the transcript waits in your Library.
What does a 4-hour seminar cost?
It uses 240 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500, so one half-day leaves 260 minutes on the account, enough for most of another session. That is $0.72 per audio hour. A first-time visitor also gets the first 20 minutes free, and a pack transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.
The file is large. Do I need to split it?
No. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. Before the first pack, uploads up to 2 GB go through. A camera recording of a whole seminar in MP4 can pass 2 GB; it starts once a pack is on the account, or you can export the audio track, which is far smaller.
Will the room echo ruin the transcript?
Echo costs clarity at the edges, not the whole file. The presenter near the recorder comes through well. Quiet remarks from the far end of the room and people talking over each other are where words go missing, so read the question sections before you quote them.
Which languages can the seminar be in?
99 languages are detected automatically, with no setting to choose. A session that moves between English and another language is detected on its main language, and English with Tagalog in one recording is handled.
Which exports do I get, and is the recording private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all from the same run, so subtitles for the seminar video and a Word document for the handout match. Seminar audio stays with us: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Other rooms and longer days
Send the seminar. Read its first 20 minutes free.
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