Transcribe Spanish interviews for the newsroom.
A 2-hour interview in Spanish is transcribed in about 4 minutes, with timestamps so every quote can be checked against the tape. The first 20 minutes are free, and twelve 90-minute interviews, 1,080 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000.
From the recorder to the draft
Spend the afternoon on the story, not on typing two hours of Spanish.
The original words, kept
The transcript is in the Spanish the source spoke. When an English-language story quotes them, the reporter translates the line they use and can point an editor to the exact second it was said.
Built for checking
Every line carries a time, and the names, numbers and dates said are gathered into one list. A fact-checker can confirm the year a source moved or the figure they gave without hearing the whole tape.
Long sit-downs in one file
Profile interviews and investigative sit-downs run one to three hours, often on a phone voice memo. The file goes in whole; a long video interview continues on upload page.
A reporting project, costed
Twelve interviews of 90 minutes are 1,080 minutes, which fits the $12 pack. One 2-hour interview uses 120 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack.
Why Spanish interviews slow a desk down
The bilingual reporter becomes the transcription service, and the story waits.
✗ Typing it up
A reporter transcribes the Spanish by hand or pays for a turnaround measured in days.
- Two hours of tape, a day of typing
- Quotes paraphrased from notes
- No timestamp when an editor asks
- Tools that expect English
- Files too big for an email
- The second interview never typed
✓ The interview, checkable
The Spanish comes back with times and structure the same afternoon.
- About 4 minutes per 2-hour interview
- Each quote tied to a time
- Interviewer and source named in the summary
- Figures and dates said, listed
- DOCX for the draft
- Twelve interviews on one $12 pack
Sample
A Spanish news interview, transcribed.
Illustrative lines written for this page; they do not quote any real source, reporter or outlet. Each time marks the point in the tape where the line was spoken.
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 interviews for reporters, answered.
How long until a 2-hour Spanish interview is ready?
Around 4 minutes; the rate is about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 45-minute phone interview is ready in about a minute and a half.
What do several interviews cost?
One 2-hour interview fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A project of twelve 90-minute interviews, 1,080 minutes, takes the $12 pack. A long investigation with 40 hours of tape, 2,400 minutes, needs the $24 pack of 5,000.
Can I send the interview from my phone?
Yes. A voice memo is usually an M4A of modest size, and anything up to 2 GB uploads before the first pack. Video interviews up to 5 GB or 10 hours go in once a pack is on the account. A link to a YouTube upload of the interview also works.
Should a long interview be split?
No. Splitting gives two clocks, which makes quote checking harder. One file runs up to 10 hours. If an interview was recorded in two sittings, upload them as two files and note in the draft which file each quote came from.
Does it translate into English?
No; it writes the Spanish down as spoken. When the source switches into English mid-answer, the interview is detected on its main language and the switch is handled, so both appear. A bilingual reporter can then translate only the passages the story uses, and an editor who reads Spanish can check the translation against the original line and its time.
What exports are there, and what about source protection?
DOCX and TXT for the draft, JSON for a newsroom archive, SRT and VTT for a video piece. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when a source spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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