Transcribe an isiZulu youth conference the whole weekend.
A weekend youth conference in isiZulu, often 10 to 15 hours of talks across Friday to Sunday, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per hour, so an eight-hour day takes about 16 minutes. isiZulu is detected automatically, the first 20 minutes are free, and a 14-hour weekend fits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For a weekend of talks
Every keynote, panel and workshop of the weekend, in text before Monday.
A day in a quarter of an hour
An eight-hour Saturday recording comes back in about 16 minutes. Each talk can be shared with the people who missed it while the weekend is still being talked about.
Talks in, music out
isiZulu is detected from the audio, and speakers who switch to English are handled. Music, worship sets and crowd noise are not transcribed; the talks are.
One chapter per session
Chapters with timestamps mark each keynote, panel and workshop in a long day file. A whole day recorded on one camera goes through upload page as a single file.
Quotes for the follow-up
The brief pulls key quotes with the speakers named, and the chat finds what each speaker said about a theme. Use it for posts, a booklet or next year's programme.
Why conference recordings stay on the hard drive
Fifteen hours of talks are recorded every year, and almost none of it is used again.
✗ Hours of raw video
A weekend's recording is too long to watch and too big for most tools.
- Fifteen hours nobody rewatches
- No text to quote from a keynote
- Music transcribed as nonsense
- Tools that end at the one-hour mark
- Files too large to upload
- Subscriptions for a yearly event
✓ The weekend as text
Every session becomes a document with chapters and quotes. Speakers can receive the text of their own talk the following week.
- An eight-hour day in about 16 minutes
- isiZulu detected automatically
- Worship music kept out of the text
- A chapter per session
- Quotes with each speaker named
- A weekend on one $12 pack
Sample
Moments from a conference day.
This excerpt is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from a real conference or speaker. In English: a welcome to the weekend, a keynote on education, a panel question, and the start of a workshop.
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
Youth conference recordings, answered.
How long does a full conference day take?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so an eight-hour day is ready in about 16 minutes. The public proof page shows 9.31 hours finished in 1,033 seconds.
What does a whole weekend cost?
Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday at 14 hours of recordings in total is 840 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers with 1,160 minutes left. A single four-hour session fits on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Amounts are in US dollars, and the minutes do not expire.
Our Saturday is one huge video file. Will it upload?
A single conference file can run to 10 hours or 5 GB. Until your first pack, the upload cap is 2 GB; anything bigger begins once a pack is on the account. A conference streamed to YouTube can be pasted as a link; a live replay longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account.
Do I need to split the day into individual talks?
No. Each day uploads as one file if it is under 10 hours, and chapters mark where each talk begins. If a day ran past 10 hours, upload it as two files.
What happens to the music and the English speakers?
isiZulu is detected automatically and English speakers in the same file are handled. Songs and worship music are not transcribed, only the spoken parts.
Which exports come back, and how is the audio handled?
TXT and DOCX for a booklet or notes, SRT and VTT for captioned video, JSON for a website. Talks from the weekend are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
More for long events
Upload Saturday's recording. The first 20 minutes of Saturday are free.
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