Transcribe research interview recordings for a study in Spain.
A 90-minute research interview recorded in Spain is transcribed in about 3 minutes, and a study of thirty such interviews, 2,700 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Each one comes back as DOCX or TXT for your coding software, with timestamps to return to the audio when a quote matters.
Built for a corpus, not a clip
Dozens of interviews, transcribed the same way, ready to code.
Weeks of typing, removed
Typing an interview by hand takes several times its length, which is why fieldwork backlogs grow. At about 2 minutes per audio hour, a whole round of interviews can be transcribed in an afternoon and the time goes to analysis.
Files your coding tool accepts
Qualitative analysis software imports DOCX and plain text. Each interview downloads in both, with timestamps kept in the text so a coded segment can be traced to the second it was said.
A Drive folder of interviews
If the recordings sit in a shared Google Drive folder, paste the folder link and the files come in together. Single files go on the upload page, up to 2 GB each before a pack.
Reading before coding
Each interview also gets a brief with its main points, chapters and the questions it answers. It is a quick way to see which interviews speak to which theme before you start the careful reading. It does not replace your own coding; it helps you decide the order you read in.
Where interview projects lose time
The transcription step is where a study stalls.
✗ Typing, or per-minute services
Hand transcription eats the calendar and outsourced work is priced by the minute.
- Hours of typing per interview
- A backlog that delays the coding
- Uneven formatting between assistants
- Monthly plans for a one-off study
- No way back to the audio for a quote
- Files that will not import cleanly
✓ The whole set in one pass
Each interview transcribed on the same terms, so the corpus is consistent from the first file to the last.
- About 3 minutes per 90-minute interview
- DOCX and TXT for import
- Timestamps kept in the text
- $24 for 5,000 minutes, never expiring
- Participants named in the summary
- A brief for each interview
Sample
A semi-structured interview, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page in English for readability; it is not from a real participant. A Spanish or Catalan interview is returned in Spanish or Catalan.
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 common questions.
How long does a 90-minute interview take?
About 3 minutes. A 60-minute interview is close to 2 and a 2-hour one about 4. Several can run at once, so a round of interviews does not queue for long.
What does a full study cost?
Add up the interview minutes. Twenty interviews of 75 minutes are 1,500 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000. Thirty of 90 minutes are 2,700, inside the $24 pack of 5,000 at $0.29 an audio hour. Credits never expire, so a second round can use the rest.
Can I try it on one interview first?
Yes. As a first-time visitor you get the first 20 minutes free. For a long interview that is the opening stretch, enough to judge how accents and overlapping replies came out.
Do I need to split a long interview?
No. A file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and an interview recorded on a phone or a portable recorder is far smaller than that.
Which languages are supported?
99 languages are detected automatically, including Spanish and Catalan. An interview that switches language is transcribed on its main language, so check passages in the second language before quoting them.
What about participant confidentiality?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete each recording and its transcript after export, and the exports come as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON.
Related
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