Transcribe Spanish radio shows hour after hour, searchable.
A 4-hour block of Spanish talk radio is transcribed in about 8 minutes, so a monitoring team reads the morning show instead of replaying it. Twenty weekdays of a 3-hour show come to 3,600 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
From air check to research notes
A week of morning shows becomes text you can search before the next one airs.
What the recording is
Monitoring and research usually start from an air check or a logged stream: a long MP3 of the whole block, hosts, callers, news breaks and ads. It goes in as one file of up to 10 hours, so a full morning keeps its own clock.
Callers come through
Phone-in segments are transcribed with the studio voices. A caller on a weak line is harder to hear for software as well as for people, so check those passages against the audio before quoting them.
Music is left out
Station IDs, music beds and jingles are not transcribed; the speech is. Spoken ads are speech, so they appear in the text, which matters if you are counting them.
Search across a week
The chat answers questions such as when the host first mentioned the ballot measure or which callers raised rent. Each answer points back to a time in the recording. Big station files continue on upload page.
Why monitoring radio by ear does not scale
Three hours a day, five days a week, is a full-time job of listening.
✗ Listening and logging
A researcher plays the block at speed and types notes when something sounds relevant.
- Fifteen hours of audio a week
- Notes that miss what was not expected
- No exact wording to cite
- Callers summarised, not quoted
- Caption tools that switch to English
- A backlog that grows every day
✓ The block as text
Every hour is written down with times, ready to search and quote.
- About 8 minutes per 4-hour block
- Chapters per segment and call-in
- Hosts named in the summary and quotes
- Figures and dates said on air, listed
- TXT for coding in research tools
- A month on one $24 pack
Sample
A Spanish call-in hour, transcribed.
Illustrative only: written for this page, not taken from any real station, host or caller. Times are from the start of the recorded block.
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 radio recordings, answered.
How quickly is a 4-hour radio block transcribed?
A full 4-hour block is ready in roughly 8 minutes. A 9.31-hour file finished in 1,033 seconds in the public timings at /proof/long-files.
What does a month of a daily show cost?
Twenty weekdays of a 3-hour show is 60 hours, or 3,600 minutes, on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A single week, 900 minutes, fits the $12 pack. One 4-hour block is 240 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500.
How big is a 4-hour air check, and will it upload?
At 128 kbps, MP3 audio is about 57.6 MB per hour (128,000 bits × 3,600 seconds ÷ 8), so a 4-hour block is about 230 MB. Uploads up to 2 GB work before any pack, and 5 GB per file after.
Should a 24-hour logger file be cut up?
Yes, into parts of 10 hours or less, since that is the most one file can run. Cutting at the show boundaries keeps each program's clock clean, and each part then gets its own brief and chapters.
What if the host switches to English?
The recording is detected on its main language and switches are handled, so an English soundbite or an interview in English inside a Spanish show stays in the text.
What formats come out, and is the material private?
TXT for research coding, DOCX for reports, SRT and VTT if the show is posted as video, JSON for a database. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, whatever station they came from.
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