Transcribe research interview recordings in Ireland ready for coding the same day.
A research interview recorded at an Irish university usually runs 60 to 120 minutes, and a 90-minute interview comes back as text in about 3 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a study of 20 such interviews, 1,800 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For postgraduate and staff researchers
Interviews into text before the next one is scheduled.
A study on the $12 pack
Twenty interviews of 90 minutes each total 1,800 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000. A larger study of forty interviews at 90 minutes needs 3,600 minutes, which is the $24 pack of 5,000. Credits never expire, so one pack can last the length of a thesis.
DOCX for your coding software
Download each interview as DOCX and import it into the qualitative analysis software your school uses. Timestamps stay in the text, so a coded passage can always be traced back to the exact moment in the recording.
A Drive folder of interviews
Paste a Google Drive folder link and every recording in it is picked up, so a batch of interviews recorded on a phone and synced to Drive goes in without uploading one by one. You can also use the bulk upload on upload page.
Check before you quote
The brief lists the themes raised and the questions each interview answers. Before a quote goes into a chapter, play the timestamp and compare the words to the audio, the same check you would make on any transcript.
Why transcription stalls a study
Every hour of interview used to cost a day of typing.
✗ Typing it up yourself
An hour of interview takes four to six hours to type, so a study of twenty can eat a month.
- Weeks of typing before any analysis
- Paying for a service by the audio minute
- Upload caps that reject a long interview
- Copying text out of a captions view
- No timestamps to recheck a quote
- Interviews piling up between fieldwork trips
✓ Interviews as text in minutes
Upload the recording after the interview and code it while it is fresh.
- About 3 minutes for 90 minutes
- First 20 minutes free
- Twenty interviews on the $12 pack
- DOCX straight into coding software
- Participants named in the summary
- Drive folders accepted
Sample
A semi-structured interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative: it was invented for this page and is not from any real participant or study. The roles are 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
Research interview recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 90-minute interview take to transcribe?
Around 3 minutes. Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 2-hour interview takes about 4.
What does a study of 20 interviews cost?
At 90 minutes each, 20 interviews total 1,800 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000. A single 90-minute interview uses 90 minutes of the $6 pack of 500. Prices are in USD.
Can I import the transcript into coding software?
Download DOCX or TXT and import it the way your software accepts documents. Timestamps remain in the text for tracing a coded passage back to the audio.
How large can an interview file be?
An interview file can be as long as 10 hours or as large as 5 GB. Uploads before the first pack can be up to 2 GB, far more than a 2-hour audio interview.
Which languages can participants speak?
99 languages, detected automatically. An interview that moves between languages is detected on its main language, so check passages in a second language before quoting them.
What happens to the recordings?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete each recording and its transcript after analysis, which fits a data management plan that requires deletion.
Related
Other research recordings.
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