Transcribe recordings made in a theatre from the first word to the last question.
A talk, reading or Q&A recorded in a theatre comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a two-hour evening is ready in roughly 4 minutes. Music is not transcribed, the first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of that evening.
What a theatre does to the audio
A big room built to carry a voice, and an audience without a microphone.
The stage carries, the stalls do not
A speaker on a stage microphone records well, whether the file comes from the sound desk or a phone in the stalls. Audience questions are harder: without a roving microphone they are quiet and distant. The transcript keeps what it can hear, and a speaker who repeats the question before answering makes it complete.
Music and applause
A reading with a musical interlude, or a talk that opens with a song, comes back with the speech only. Music, applause and laughter are not transcribed, so the text runs from one spoken passage to the next with the timestamps intact.
A festival week, priced
Twelve events of 90 minutes come to 1,080 minutes. That sits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, at $0.36 an audio hour, with room for the extra sessions that always get added.
From the evening to the page
The brief lists the main points and takeaways of the talk, chapters mark where the Q&A began, and the panel and host are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. That is the raw material for a programme note, a write-up or the archive.
Why theatre recordings stall elsewhere
Long evenings and mixed sound, in one file.
✗ The common failures
Short-clip tools stop early, and music confuses tools that try to type every sound.
- A cap at minute 30 on free plans
- A song guessed into nonsense words
- Q&A typed up by hand from the recording
- No timestamps to find a reading
- A monthly plan for a seasonal festival
- Nothing to show what the talk covered
✓ The evening as text
One upload per event, and the spoken parts come back in order.
- About 4 minutes for a two-hour evening
- The first 20 minutes free
- $12 for 2,000 minutes, kept until used
- Music and applause left out
- The Q&A in a chapter of its own
- Exports for the archive or the web
Sample
An author talk and Q&A, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it does not quote any real event or author. It shows how an evening in a theatre 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
Theatre recordings, the common questions
How long does a theatre recording take to transcribe?
Count on about 2 minutes for each hour on the file. A two-hour evening is ready in roughly 4 minutes, and you can close the page while it runs.
What does an evening or a festival cost?
A two-hour talk and Q&A is 120 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500 after the first 20 minutes free. A festival week of twelve 90-minute events, 1,080 minutes, goes on the $12 pack of 2,000. All figures are US dollars.
The desk recorded a large video. Will it upload?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB fits in one file, whichever of the two is reached first. Up to 2 GB uploads before any pack is bought; over that, the file starts after a pack lands on the account. A multi-camera video of a long evening can be big; the audio alone is a fraction of the size.
Does the music need cutting out first?
No need. Music is not transcribed, and cutting it would shift the timestamps away from the original recording. A whole evening goes in as one file unless it runs past 10 hours.
What about readings in other languages?
99 languages are detected automatically, so a reading in Spanish, Swedish or Hebrew is transcribed as spoken. When a speaker changes language partway, the recording is read on whichever language dominates it.
Which formats can I download, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one run; SRT and VTT give captions for a published video. Event recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related venues and events
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