Transcribe Spanish oral histories in the words they were told.
A 4-hour oral history recorded in Spanish comes back as text in about 8 minutes, with the places, years and names the narrator mentions gathered into one list. Three 3-hour sessions with one grandparent total 540 minutes and need the $12 pack, since they run just past the 500 minutes of the $6 pack.
From the kitchen table to the archive
The afternoon your grandmother told the whole story, kept as text the family can read.
Sessions that run long
A family or community oral history is often one long sitting of two to four hours, with pauses, coffee and a second relative joining halfway. It goes in as one file, and the chapters follow the story from childhood to arrival to the present.
The details people forget to write down
Towns, ranchos, years and the names of relatives said aloud are collected in their own list. That list is where a family tree or a project's index begins. Check spellings of small places against the audio.
Old tapes, digitised
Cassettes and minidiscs digitised to WAV are large: CD-quality stereo is about 635 MB an hour, so a 4-hour tape is about 2.5 GB. That starts once a pack is on the account, or convert it to MP3 first. Large files continue on upload page.
A community project, costed
Fifteen interviews of 3 hours come to 2,700 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. The rest of the pack waits for the next round of interviews, since credits never expire.
Why oral histories sit untranscribed
The recording is made with care; then hours of Spanish wait for someone with time to type.
✗ The recording on a shelf
The interview exists, but nobody can search it or read it.
- Four hours of audio per narrator
- Volunteers typing for weeks
- Places spelled however the typist guessed
- Tapes that only one relative can play
- Files too large for free tools
- Grandchildren who never hear it
✓ A history the family can read
Every session comes back in Spanish with structure for the archive.
- About 8 minutes per 4-hour session
- Chapters by life stage
- Narrator and interviewer named in the summary
- Years and places, listed
- DOCX to print, JSON to archive
- Fifteen sessions on one $24 pack
Sample
A Spanish oral history, transcribed.
Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page and do not come from any real family or narrator. Times count from the start of the session.
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 oral histories, answered.
How long until a 4-hour session with a narrator is text?
About 8 minutes. A 2-hour session takes about 4, at about 2 minutes per hour of audio.
What will a family's set of interviews cost?
Three 3-hour sessions with one narrator total 540 minutes, just over the $6 pack's 500, so they go on the $12 pack of 2,000. A community project of fifteen 3-hour sessions, 2,700 minutes, uses the $24 pack.
The digitised tape is a big WAV. What size works?
Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload; after it, up to 5 GB or 10 hours per file. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first: 128 kbps MP3 is about 57.6 MB an hour.
Should I split a session at the coffee break?
There is no need. One file keeps one timeline for the whole sitting, and files run up to 10 hours.
My grandfather mixes Spanish and English. Is that a problem?
No. His interview is detected on its main language, and the moves into English are handled. Regional words and place names are where a review pass pays off most.
Which formats come back, and who can hear the tape?
DOCX and TXT to print for the family, JSON for a digital archive, SRT and VTT to caption a video version. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so a family's story is not material for anyone's model.
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