Transcription services in Iloilo for long recordings in Ilonggo and English.
A 90-minute focus group or lecture recorded in Iloilo comes back as text in about 3 minutes, and three of them, 270 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 minutes free. English and Tagalog return cleanly, while Hiligaynon is supported with accuracy that trails the major languages, so read it as a fast first draft and plan one review pass.
For Iloilo students, researchers and offices
Research in Iloilo is often recorded in Ilonggo and written up in English. The transcript is the bridge between the two.
Focus groups you can code
Each discussion comes back with chapters per guide question and the participants named in the summary and key quotes, a structure that maps onto a coding sheet. Thematic analysis starts from a document instead of a set of earphones.
A timestamp behind every quote
Every line carries a timestamp, so a quote in your results chapter can point back to the exact moment, and your adviser can listen to it.
A draft to translate from
Start your English translation from text rather than from audio: the Hiligaynon draft, after its review pass, is quicker to work through than a recording you have to replay.
Every session of a study in one go
Paste the Google Drive folder that holds every session of a study, or send one long video through the upload page.
The transcription bottleneck
Most thesis timelines slip at the same step: turning hours of interviews into text.
✗ Transcribing the sessions yourself
Six focus groups of two hours each are 720 minutes of audio, and typing them by hand pushes the analysis back by weeks.
- Hiligaynon spelled differently by each typist
- Overlapping voices you replay three times
- No timestamps to back a quote
- Group members split the files and the styles clash
- Analysis that cannot start until the typing ends
- Audio files passed around on flash drives
✓ Uploading them here
Every session becomes a draft with structure, so the review pass and the analysis can start the same day.
- A draft of each session in minutes
- Chapters by guide question
- Participants named where the summary quotes them
- The names, numbers and dates said, listed
- Six 2-hour sessions on the $12 pack
- One export style for the whole group
Sample output
A disaster-preparedness focus group in Hiligaynon and English.
Invented for this page to illustrate the format. It is not from a real study, barangay or participant.
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 Iloilo, answered.
How fast is a two-hour focus group?
About 4 minutes after upload. The rate is roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, and on the proof page a recording of 9.31 hours took 1,033 seconds.
What does a study of six focus groups cost?
Six 2-hour focus groups are 720 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, which leaves 1,280 for interviews. A smaller study of three 90-minute sessions, 270 minutes, fits the $6 pack.
What does a human transcriber offer that this does not?
A trained Ilonggo transcriber hears local terms and names correctly the first time, follows your adviser's verbatim rules and can certify the work. If an official record is required, for a hearing for instance, use a person: this AI draft with timestamps is for working from, not a certified court transcript and not legal advice.
How large can a focus group file be?
Each focus group file may run to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever arrives first. Until the first pack the upload ceiling is 2 GB; audio at 128 kbps is roughly 58 MB per hour (128,000 bits times 3,600 seconds, divided by 8), so most focus groups sit far below it. A video of the same session is much larger, which is why many researchers upload the audio recorder's file instead.
Which languages are detected?
The main language of each recording is detected automatically from 99, and switches between English and Tagalog are handled. For the Hiligaynon parts, the review pass mentioned at the top of the page is where your time goes.
Which exports, and what happens to the recordings?
Each session can be saved as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when participants were promised confidentiality.
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