Transcribe research interviews in Peru ready to code.
A research interview in Peru that runs 60 to 120 minutes comes back as text in 2 to 4 minutes, so a study of 30 ninety-minute interviews needs about an hour and a half of processing in total. The first 20 minutes are free on your own audio, and the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers those 2,700 minutes with room for follow-ups. Each transcript exports as DOCX for the coding software you already use.
Built for a full study
From a stack of interview files to text you can start coding this week.
DOCX for your coding tool
Each interview downloads as a Word document with timestamps, a format qualitative analysis software opens without conversion. TXT suits a plain archive, and JSON suits a script that sorts excerpts by code.
Read each one before you code
The brief gives the thesis and takeaways of each conversation, and the chapters show where the topic changed. With thirty interviews on the desk, that summary tells you which ones to open first and where in them your theme begins.
Fieldwork audio, as it was
Interviews recorded on a phone in a market, a classroom or a kitchen carry noise. Background sound and music are not transcribed, only speech. Where a voice drops or a truck passes, the timestamp takes you back to that second to listen.
Costed per study
Thirty interviews at 90 minutes come to 2,700 minutes, past the 2,000 in the $12 pack, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes is the one to buy, at $0.29 per audio hour. A smaller study of 20 interviews at 75 minutes is 1,500 minutes and fits the $12 pack.
Where transcription slows a study
Typing the interviews takes longer than doing them.
✗ Typing every interview
At four to six hours of typing per recorded hour, thirty interviews turn into weeks at a keyboard.
- Weeks of typing before any analysis
- Paying an agency by the audio minute
- Files cut down to fit a 25 MB limit
- Timestamps added by hand
- Different formatting from each assistant
- Analysis waiting on the last file
✓ Every interview, same format
All recordings come back in one structure, so coding can start the day the last interview is recorded.
- About 3 minutes per 90-minute interview
- DOCX with timestamps throughout
- A brief and chapters per interview
- Participants named in the summary
- Spanish and 98 other languages detected
- Credits that carry into the next round
Sample
A semi-structured interview, in Spanish.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page, and it is not a real participant or study. Labels mark the interview's chapters; the participant and interviewer are named in the summary and quotes.
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, the practical questions.
How long does a 90-minute interview take?
About 3 minutes, and a 2-hour interview about 4. Thirty interviews finish in roughly an hour and a half of processing, and every result waits in your Library until you open it.
What does a study of 40 one-hour interviews cost?
Forty hours is 2,400 minutes, more than the $12 pack holds, so it goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes with 2,600 minutes left for follow-up rounds. Credits never expire, so the remainder carries into the next phase.
My interviews are WAV files from a recorder. Is size a problem?
A 2-hour WAV is roughly 1.2 GB, inside the 2 GB that uploads before a first pack. After a pack, one file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours. Compressed formats such as MP3 or M4A are smaller still.
Should I split long interviews into parts?
No. Upload each interview whole, since anything under 10 hours goes in as one file and keeps one clock. Splitting only applies to a recording longer than 10 hours.
Do regional accents and Peruvian Spanish come through?
Spanish is detected without picking a language, along with 98 others. Regional accents, crosstalk and noisy settings can still produce errors in names and local terms, so read each transcript against the audio for the passages you will quote.
How are participant recordings handled?
Interviews are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript whenever you decide, and the TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON exports stay on your machine once downloaded.
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