Transcription services in Cebu for long recordings, in the languages spoken there.
From Cebu City, Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu or anywhere on the island, a 2-hour recording uploads here and returns as text in about 4 minutes, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes holds four of them after the first 20 minutes free. English and Tagalog come back cleanly; Cebuano is supported as a fast first draft, so plan one review pass on the Bisaya stretches.
For Cebu classrooms, offices and fieldwork
A recording in three languages is still one recording. Upload it once and work from the text.
Mixed classes, one file
A lecturer who explains in English, jokes in Bisaya and quotes a Tagalog source produces one recording. It is detected on its main language and goes through in one pass; you never pick a language from a menu.
The parts worth reviewing are easy to find
Chapters with timestamps show where each topic starts, so your review pass on the Cebuano sections jumps straight to them instead of replaying the whole file.
Interviews with the people named
For a thesis or a market study, participants are named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters, which is where a report draws its evidence from.
Send a whole fieldwork folder
Paste a Google Drive folder from a week of interviews, or put a single large video through the upload page.
Typing it out yourself
Transcribing a long Bisaya interview by hand means hours of pausing, rewinding and typing for every hour recorded.
✗ Doing it by hand
Students and small teams in Cebu often transcribe their own recordings, a few minutes of audio at a time, around classes and work.
- Pausing every few seconds to keep up
- Spelling Bisaya words differently each time
- No timestamps to cite a quote
- A thesis deadline that arrives first
- Earphones on for whole evenings
- Analysis waiting while one person types
✓ Here, the same recording
Upload once and start from a draft with the structure already built.
- A draft of the whole recording in minutes
- Timestamps on every line
- Chapters to jump to the parts to review
- Names, figures and dates said aloud, listed
- A chat that finds a quote in the transcript
- Exports for Word, subtitles or code
Sample output
A market interview in Cebuano and English.
An illustration written for the Cebu page. It is not a real interview or a real participant, and Cebuano output may need the review pass described above.
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
Transcription in Cebu, answered.
How quickly does a 2-hour recording come back?
In about 4 minutes. Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, and the public proof shows a 2.48-hour file done in 200 seconds.
What do ten lectures of 90 minutes cost?
Ten lectures are 900 minutes, more than the $6 pack of 500 minutes, so they go on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 1,100 to spare. A single 90-minute lecture fits the $6 pack after the first 20 minutes free, and so do four more.
What can a human transcriber in Cebu do that this cannot?
A person who knows local Cebuano can choose spellings, catch a mumbled place name, sit in the room and deliver a clean verbatim document they stand behind. If the transcript must be official, for a hearing or a legal record, hire one: this is a machine transcript with timestamps for working from, not a certified court transcript and not legal advice.
My recording is a large phone video. Will it go?
A phone video is accepted up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. Before your first pack the ceiling is 2 GB, and a bigger video starts once a pack is on the account. Should the upload refuse a phone format, convert it to MP3 first.
Do I set the language?
No. The main language is detected automatically, and English with Tagalog in one recording is handled. Spend the review pass on the Cebuano parts, since the English stretches come back cleanly. A lecturer who reads slides in English and explains them in Bisaya gives you a transcript where the slide text is solid and the explanations want a second look.
What do I download, and is the audio private?
Cebu users download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON files. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a recording with its transcript at any time.
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