Transcribe research interview recordings in South Korea a whole study, ready to code.
A 90-minute research interview in Korean is transcribed in about 3 minutes and exports as DOCX for your coding software. The first 20 minutes are free, a handful of interviews fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and a study of thirty 90-minute interviews fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
For researchers and graduate students
The interviews took months to arrange; the transcription should not take months more.
DOCX for coding
Qualitative coding software reads DOCX, so each interview goes straight into the project. The transcript keeps its timestamps, which lets you return to the audio when a participant's tone matters to the code. The text keeps the order of the conversation, so a long answer stays together when you apply a code.
A study, worked out
Thirty interviews of 90 minutes are 2,700 minutes. The $24 pack of 5,000 covers them at about $0.29 per audio hour, with 2,300 minutes left for follow-ups or a second wave.
Participants' privacy
Interview recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete each file once the transcript is in your project. Describe that handling in your consent materials as your institution requires.
Upload them together
Select a batch of interview files on the upload page and each one comes back as its own transcript. A Google Drive folder link works too, so a shared fieldwork folder needs no download. Using participant codes rather than names in the file names keeps identities out of the project from the start.
Why transcription stalls a study
Fieldwork is done, and the coding cannot start until the text exists.
✗ Typing it up by hand
Transcribing interviews by hand takes several hours per hour of audio, and a study with dozens of interviews loses weeks to it.
- Five or more hours of typing per interview
- Assistants paid to transcribe instead of analyse
- Upload limits that reject a 90-minute file
- A monthly plan for one data-collection period
- Quotes that cannot be traced to the audio
- A backlog that delays the first round of coding
✓ A corpus ready to code
Each interview comes back in minutes, with the structure the analysis needs.
- Around 3 minutes per 90-minute interview
- No language setting needed for Korean
- DOCX for coding, JSON for scripts
- Interviewer and participant named in the summary
- Questions the interview answers, listed
- Credits that last across the study
Sample
A research interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page in English translation; it is not taken from any real participant, and a Korean interview returns in Korean.
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 Korean, answered.
How long does a 90-minute interview take to transcribe?
About 3 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio; a two-hour interview takes around 4. A batch of interviews runs one after another, and each transcript lands in your Library.
What does a full study cost?
Five interviews of 90 minutes, 450 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500. Twenty interviews of 75 minutes, 1,500 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000. Thirty of 90 minutes need the $24 pack of 5,000. Prices are in US dollars, and the credits never expire, so they last across a multi-year project.
Are my interview files too large, and should I split them?
A 90-minute recording from a phone or a recorder is far under the 2 GB that uploads before a first pack. One file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so interviews never need splitting; each one is simply its own file.
Can I import the transcript into my coding software?
Yes. Download DOCX for software that imports Word documents, TXT for anything plain, or JSON if you script your own analysis. Each transcript keeps its timestamps.
How well does it handle Korean interviews?
Korean is detected automatically, and an interview with some English inside it is transcribed on its main language. Participants' names, place names and local terms are worth checking before you quote them in a paper.
Who can see the recordings?
Nobody outside your account. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and deleting a file removes it and its transcript. No bot joins an online interview; you upload the recording afterwards.
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