What happens if my recording is longer than 10 hours? it goes in as two files, cut at a quiet moment.
A recording longer than 10 hours is past the limit for one file, so cut it at a pause into two parts and upload both; a 14-hour recording split into two 7-hour halves is transcribed in about 28 minutes at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The first 20 minutes are free, a part over 2 GB waits for your first pack, and the 840 minutes fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 1,160 left.
Past the ten-hour mark
What changes when a recording runs past ten hours.
The ceiling is per file
Ten hours or 5 GB applies to each upload, not to your account or your day. A recording of fourteen, sixteen or twenty hours simply becomes two or three uploads, and each one is transcribed in full. Nothing is refused for the total; only a single file over the line is.
Cutting without losing a sentence
Choose a break where nobody is talking: a recess, a meal, a speaker change. In Audacity, select up to that point and export it, then export the rest. With ffmpeg, -t 07:00:00 -c copy writes the first seven hours and -ss 06:59:00 -c copy writes the remainder with a one-minute overlap, so a sentence at the seam appears whole in one of the two.
Size can bite before length
A nine-hour video recorded at 2 Mbps is about 8.1 GB, already past 5 GB though it is under ten hours. Keep only the sound: nine hours of 128 kbps audio is roughly 520 MB, which uploads even before a pack. Very large parts go through the upload page.
Stream replays of this length
A live stream that ran longer than 10 hours cannot be pasted as one link. Download the replay, cut it into parts under ten hours, and upload them. Any stream recording longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account, so buy the pack first and the parts begin straight away.
Two ways to handle a very long day
Squeezing it into one file versus cutting it once.
✗ Forcing it through as one file
Re-encoding until a long recording sneaks under a cap, or hoping an oversize file goes through anyway.
- Hours spent compressing a file that is still too long
- The upload is refused at the length limit
- Sound quality lowered for nothing
- A second attempt after the first one stalls
- Cut points chosen in a hurry, mid-sentence
- Notes for the day still not written
✓ Two clean parts, cut at a pause
Each part stays under ten hours and 5 GB and is transcribed on its own.
- One cut at a recess or meal break
- Both parts uploaded together and left to run
- About 28 minutes for fourteen hours in total
- A brief and chapters for each half of the day
- 840 minutes taken from the $12 pack
- 1,160 minutes kept for later recordings
Sample output
Part two starts its own clock at zero.
Illustrative only, not a real recording: four lines from the second part of a long day, where 00:00:00 is the moment the first part ended.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Questions about recordings longer than 10 hours.
Is there any way to upload more than 10 hours in one file?
No. Ten hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, is the most one file can be. The fix is a single cut: two parts of about equal length are the easiest to read afterwards, and each returns a complete transcript.
How many parts do I need?
Divide the total length by nine and round up, so every part stays comfortably below ten hours. Fourteen or sixteen hours needs two parts; a 24-hour stream needs three, for example three eight-hour files.
How long does a 16-hour recording take?
About 32 minutes of processing for the two eight-hour parts, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. Both can be uploaded at once; you can close the tab and come back to them in your Library.
Which pack covers it?
Sixteen hours is 960 minutes, past the 500 in the $6 pack, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes fits with 1,040 left. A 24-hour stream is 1,440 minutes and still fits that pack. Forty hours of a weekend event is 2,400 minutes, which needs the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
How do I find a moment from the second part in the original?
Add the length of the first part to the timestamp. If part one ran 7:00:00 and a line in part two says 01:15:00, it sits at 8:15:00 in the full recording. If you left a one-minute overlap, subtract that minute.
Are the parts private, and which exports do I get?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Every part exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and 99 languages are detected automatically, part by part.
Related
More about very long recordings.
Fourteen hours, sixteen, twenty-four: cut once, upload the parts, read the day.
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