Transcribe research interviews a whole study, not one file at a time.
A 90-minute qualitative interview is transcribed in about 3 minutes, and the DOCX export is ready to import into the coding software your lab uses. The first 20 minutes are free; a study of twenty 90-minute interviews is 1,800 minutes and fits the $12 pack of 2,000. Graduate students and research teams in the US routinely run dozens of these per project, so the page works the numbers for a study, not a single file.
Built for a study, not a single file
Dozens of long interviews, back as documents you can code the same week.
The arithmetic for a study
Interviews of 60 to 120 minutes average about 90. Twenty of them are 1,800 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000; forty come to 3,600 and sit on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so a study that runs across two semesters keeps its balance.
DOCX that imports cleanly
Each interview downloads as a Word document with timestamps on every line, which most qualitative coding tools accept as a source. TXT and JSON come from the same run if your pipeline prefers plain text or structured data.
Check a quote against the audio
Every transcript line carries the time it was said, so a quote headed for a chapter or a paper can be checked against the recording in seconds. The interviewer and participant are identified in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Uploading a batch
Send interviews one after another, or paste a Google Drive folder link and the folder is read in one go. At about 2 minutes per audio hour, a day's fieldwork of four interviews is ready within a quarter of an hour.
Where transcription slows a study
Fieldwork ends. Then a month of typing starts.
✗ Typing or waiting
Typing an interview by hand takes several times its length, and a study of thirty turns into a semester's work.
- Hours at the keyboard for each hour of tape
- Files over 25 MB refused by the Whisper API
- Interviews split to fit a short-file tool
- Timestamps that drift after re-joining parts
- Exports that need reformatting before import
- A monthly plan billed through the writing-up months
✓ Transcripts while the interview is fresh
Upload after each session and start coding the same week.
- Ninety minutes of talk in about 3 minutes
- Drive folder links read in one go
- DOCX, TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON
- Timestamps on every line
- Interviewer and participant named in the brief
- First 20 minutes free to test your audio
Sample
A semi-structured interview, partway through.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not drawn from any study or participant. Timestamps show positions in a 90-minute interview.
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 fast is a 90-minute research interview transcribed?
About 3 minutes. A two-hour interview takes about 4, and a batch of ten 90-minute interviews about half an hour in total. Finished transcripts wait in your Library.
How much would thirty interviews cost?
Thirty interviews at 75 minutes each are 2,250 minutes, more than the $12 pack holds, so they belong on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. At 60 minutes each the same thirty come to 1,800 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000. Your first recording's opening 20 minutes are free.
Will the file from my recorder upload?
Almost certainly: a single file may run to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before you buy a pack, uploads are capped at 2 GB, and anything larger waits until a pack is on the account. A 90-minute interview saved as stereo WAV is roughly 900 MB, and as MP3 far less.
Are participant recordings kept out of model training?
Yes. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete each recording and its transcript at the point your protocol says the audio must go.
Do interviews in Spanish or another language work?
99 languages are detected automatically, Spanish, Korean and Portuguese among them. Each interview is detected on its main language, so a participant who answers mostly in Spanish gets a Spanish transcript.
Which exports come back?
DOCX, TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON from the same run. DOCX is the one most coding software imports; JSON carries the timestamps in a structured form for scripts and spreadsheets.
Related
Related research recordings
Send the first interview. Its opening 20 minutes are free.
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