Transcribe Spanish focus groups in time for the debrief.
A Spanish-language focus group with US consumers usually runs 90 to 120 minutes, and WhipScribe returns a 2-hour group as a Spanish transcript in about 4 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free. Four 2-hour groups total 480 minutes, which fits one $6 pack of 500 minutes.
From the viewing room to the topline report
Eight participants talking over each other in Spanish, turned into text a researcher can code.
Spanish heard as Spanish
The language is detected automatically, so nobody picks a setting before the upload. When the moderator's guide is in Spanish and a participant drops an English brand name or a phrase from work, the group is read on its main language and the switches into English are handled rather than dropped.
Chapters mapped to the moderator's guide
Warm-up, unaided awareness, concept reactions, packaging, price: the chapters mark where the moderator moved between sections of the guide, with times. Pulling every reaction to the second concept across four groups starts from four chapter lists instead of eight hours of video. upload page
Costed per study
A study of four 2-hour groups is 480 minutes and fits the $6 pack of 500. Two markets of four groups each come to 960 minutes, which belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so whatever is left carries into the next wave of fieldwork.
Quotes for the deck
Key quotes come back with their speakers named, as they are in the summary and chapters, which is where a topline report usually starts. The chat answers questions such as which participants raised price before the moderator asked about it, with the times to check against the video.
Why Spanish groups stall after fieldwork
The groups finish on Thursday; the Spanish transcripts arrive two weeks later.
✗ The usual route
Spanish sessions often wait in a separate queue for a bilingual transcriber, or get run through a tool that expects English.
- A bilingual transcriber booked weeks out
- English-first tools that garble the Spanish
- Free tiers that stop well short of two hours
- Upload caps that refuse the viewing-room MP4
- Back-room notes in place of verbatim quotes
- No way to search four groups at once
✓ Each group, ready for coding
The recording comes back in Spanish with a brief, chapters and a searchable transcript within minutes.
- About 4 minutes per 2-hour group
- Spanish picked up with no setting to choose
- Respondents named in the summary and quotes
- Chapters per section of the guide
- DOCX for the analyst, JSON for coding software
- A four-group study on one $6 pack
Sample
A Spanish focus group on a snack concept.
Written for this page as an illustration, not taken from any real study, brand or participant. Each time is measured from the first second of the group.
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
Spanish focus groups, the questions researchers ask.
How long does a 2-hour Spanish focus group take to transcribe?
Roughly 4 minutes, since processing runs near 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 90-minute group is back in about 3 minutes, so an evening of two groups is readable before the morning debrief call.
What does a four-group study cost?
Four 2-hour groups are 480 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Eight groups across two cities come to 960 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000. A project with twenty or more 2-hour groups goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A first focus group upload gets the first 20 minutes free.
The viewing-room video is large. Will it upload?
Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB; with a pack on the account, a single file can be up to 5 GB and 10 hours long. If the facility shares the session as a Google Drive link, paste the link and skip the upload entirely.
Should I split a group into parts before uploading?
No need. A 2-hour group is a fraction of the 10-hour ceiling, and one file keeps one clock, so a quote's time matches the video the client is watching.
What happens when participants switch into English?
The recording is detected on its main language, Spanish here, and switches into English for a brand name or a whole sentence are handled. The transcript keeps the words as they were spoken, and 99 languages are detected the same way.
Which exports come back, and does the session stay private?
TXT and DOCX for the report, SRT or VTT to caption a highlight reel, JSON for analysis software. Focus group sessions are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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