Transcribe research interviews from New Zealand, a whole study at a time.
A 90-minute research interview from New Zealand comes back as text in about 3 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free. Thirty interviews of that length come to 2,700 minutes, which fits on a $24 pack of 5,000 minutes with room for the follow-ups.
What a study looks like here
Weeks of fieldwork, ready for coding before the next interview is booked.
DOCX that drops into your coding tool
Download each interview as DOCX or TXT with a timestamp on every line, then import it into your qualitative analysis software as you would any typed transcript. When an excerpt matters, the timestamp takes you straight to the audio.
A Drive folder for the whole study
Keep the recordings in a shared Google Drive folder and paste the folder link; each file in it becomes its own transcript. Single recordings go through upload page instead.
The study, costed
Thirty interviews at 90 minutes each is 2,700 minutes. The $12 pack holds 2,000, so the study belongs on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, about $0.29 per audio hour, with 2,300 left for a second round.
A first read before coding
Each interview arrives with a brief, chapters and the questions it answers, which helps you build a first-pass codebook and spot themes before you start line-by-line work.
Why interview studies are awkward elsewhere
Transcription is often the slowest step between fieldwork and analysis.
✗ Weeks lost to typing
Hand transcription of one 90-minute interview can take most of a working day.
- Six or more hours of typing per interview
- A backlog of recordings by mid-study
- Short free tiers that stop mid-interview
- A subscription that outlasts the fieldwork
- No timestamps to check an excerpt
- Text pasted from captions with no structure
✓ A study's worth, in an afternoon
Each recording comes back whole, timestamped and ready for import.
- About 3 minutes per interview
- DOCX per participant
- A timestamp on every line
- Briefs for a first-pass codebook
- Thirty interviews on one pack
- Delete any recording at any time
Sample
A research interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any real study. Participants appear by role only.
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 interviews in New Zealand, the common questions.
How long does a 90-minute interview take?
About 3 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A full two-hour interview usually comes back in about 4.
What does a study of 30 interviews cost?
At 90 minutes each, 2,700 minutes, which goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, about $0.29 per audio hour. A pilot of five interviews of around 75 minutes, 375 minutes in all, fits on the $6 pack of 500.
Is there a size limit, and will I need to split files?
One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so no interview needs splitting. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, far beyond an audio recorder's file for a two-hour interview.
Which languages are supported?
99 languages, detected automatically, with each interview detected on its main language. Where an English interview includes passages in te reo Māori, plan a review pass on those passages before you code or quote them.
Which formats come back, and what should I tell my ethics committee?
Each interview downloads as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. The facts to give them: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a recording and its transcript whenever the protocol requires.
How are speakers handled for coding?
Participants and interviewers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The transcript text is timestamped line by line, so during your first read mark interviewer and participant turns in the DOCX before importing it.
Related
Other research recordings
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