Transcribe a Waray FGD recording before the team leaves the barangay.
A two-hour Waray FGD transcribes in about 4 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free so you can hear how the room came out. Waray is supported, but its accuracy trails Tagalog and English, so treat the text as a fast first draft and plan one review pass before you code it. A $6 pack of 500 minutes finishes the session and leaves at least 400 minutes for the next one.
What a Waray FGD gets here
Ten voices, one recorder, and a draft by the time the chairs are stacked.
Four minutes for the whole session
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a full discussion recorded in Tacloban, Catbalogan or a barangay hall in Samar is ready before the facilitator has packed the recorder. You can close the tab, and the transcript waits in your Library.
Many voices, one clock
An FGD has eight to ten participants, a facilitator and a note-taker, and people talk over each other when a topic lands. Every line carries its timestamp, so when two voices overlap you click the line and hear the moment instead of rewinding a recorder.
What two hours cost
A first-time visitor pays nothing for the opening 20 minutes. The remaining 100 minutes come off a $6 pack of 500, the credits never expire, and nothing renews at the end of the month.
From talk to themes
Alongside the text you get a brief with the main takeaways, chapters with timestamps that follow your guide questions, the names, numbers and dates that were said, and a chat you can ask which participants raised water supply or livelihood.
Why FGD audio is slow work
A Waray FGD usually waits weeks for someone to type it.
✗ Typing it by hand
A research assistant who speaks Waray types a two-hour discussion over several working days, and the backlog grows with every barangay visited.
- Days of typing per session
- Overlapping voices replayed again and again
- A tool that asks you to pick one language
- No timestamps to cite a participant
- Notes that miss the quiet participants
- A backlog that delays the coding
✓ A draft the same afternoon
The recording goes up once and comes back as Waray text in the order it was spoken, with the Tagalog and English parts as they were said.
- Two hours back in about 4 minutes
- First 20 minutes free
- $6 for 500 minutes, no subscription
- Timestamps to check any overlap
- Chapters that follow the guide questions
- Exports for your coding software
Sample
Part of a Waray FGD, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page, not taken from a real discussion. Waray spelling varies between speakers and towns, so your transcript may spell some words differently.
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
Waray FGD recordings, the questions researchers ask.
How long does a two-hour Waray FGD take to transcribe?
About 4 minutes. Speed is roughly 2 minutes per audio hour whatever the language, so a field day with three sessions comes back in about 12 minutes.
What does a set of FGDs cost?
Each two-hour session is 120 minutes. Four sessions are 480 minutes and fit on one $6 pack of 500; a study of ten sessions is 1,200 minutes and belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000, which works out to $0.36 an audio hour.
My recorder file is large. Will it upload, or must I split it?
Audio from a phone or handheld recorder is far below the 2 GB that uploads before a pack; if you filmed the session and the video passes 2 GB, it starts once a pack is on the account. One file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so a session never needs splitting.
What if participants switch between Waray, Tagalog and English?
Keep the file whole. Each part comes back in the language spoken, in order, and English and Tagalog switches in one recording are handled. WhipScribe does not translate, so a Waray answer stays in Waray for your team to translate.
Can I tell participants apart?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, using names when they are said aloud. The transcript body follows the conversation line by line with timestamps, which is what you use to attribute a quote during the review pass.
Which exports suit qualitative coding, and who hears the audio?
Five formats come from one run. DOCX and TXT drop into most coding workflows, JSON keeps every timestamp, and SRT or VTT suit a video of the session. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a discussion and its transcript whenever the study requires it.
Related
Other Waray and FGD pages
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