Transcribe recordings made on a tour bus the commentary, without the engine.
A guided tour recorded on a coach often runs four hours or more, and a 4-hour tour comes back as text in about 8 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free on your first visit, and the full 240 minutes fit a $6 pack of 500 minutes with at least 260 to spare.
What a moving coach does to audio
Engine, road and a public address speaker, and the guide's words still come through.
Road noise underneath everything
A diesel engine and tyre noise sit under the whole recording as a low steady hum. Speech is louder and higher than that hum, so the commentary is transcribed while the engine is not. Gear changes, indicators and air brakes are sounds, not words, and they drop out.
Record the guide, not the speaker
The clearest tour recording comes from a phone or small recorder near the guide's microphone, or from a lavalier on the guide. Recording from a passenger seat picks up the ceiling speakers plus chatter around you, which still works but needs more checking against the timestamps.
A day on one pack
A 4-hour tour is 240 minutes, and the $6 pack holds 500. A season of tours runs out faster: forty 4-hour tours is 9,600 minutes, which is two $24 packs of 5,000 minutes. Processing takes about 2 minutes per audio hour either way.
What a tour company makes from it
Guides use the text to build a written script, to train a new guide on the route, or to check facts and dates told on the bus. Chapters with timestamps line up with stops, and the names, numbers and dates said on the tour are listed for you.
Keeping a route's commentary
The best version of a tour usually lives only in the head of the guide who gives it.
✗ Without a transcript
A new guide shadows the route for weeks to learn what to say at each stop.
- Stories that change with every telling
- Dates and numbers told from memory
- No written script for new guides
- Hours of phone audio left on a device
- Commentary in one language only
- Nothing to search before a tour
✓ With the recording in text
Every stop's commentary written down, timed and searchable.
- About 8 minutes for a 4-hour tour
- Chapters that follow the stops
- Facts and dates listed out
- A script draft for the next guide
- 20 free minutes on the first tour
- DOCX to edit, SRT for a video
Sample
A day tour recorded on the coach, as it comes back.
The tour below is illustrative, written for this page. It is not from a real tour, and the places are left generic.
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
Tour bus recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 4-hour tour recording take?
Roughly 8 minutes. Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, and long silent stretches while the coach drives do not slow it down.
What does one tour cost, and what about a full season?
New visitors get the first 20 minutes at no charge. One 4-hour tour is 240 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A season of many tours is cheaper per hour on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, at $0.29 an audio hour.
The phone recorded all day. Is the file too large?
A phone voice memo of a full day is usually a few hundred megabytes, well under the 2 GB that uploads before a pack. Each file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours.
We give the same tour in two languages. How should I record it?
Record each language as its own file if you can. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a recording that switches is detected on its main language, so separate files give the cleanest text in both. English and Tagalog switches within one recording are handled.
Should I split the tour by stop?
You do not need to. One upload keeps the whole route on one timeline, and chapters with timestamps mark the topics. Split only if you want a separate document for each stop.
Which exports are there, and who can hear the recording?
The formats are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Passengers' voices are in the recording, so delete it once you have the text if you prefer.
Related
Other recordings made on the move
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