WhipScribe transcribes BBC podcasts from their public BBC feed or Apple Podcasts link, not BBC Sounds downloads. Packs: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000, $32 for 6,000; Workspace $19 a month. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Measured turnaround: about 2 minutes per audio hour. 99 languages. Checked 2 Nov 2026.
The file you have
Sometimes a link works. Paste the BBC podcast feed, the episode's MP3 address or its Apple Podcasts link. BBC Sounds play links will not work.
How it works
Search the programme in Apple Podcasts; BBC podcasts appear there with their episodes.
Or its MP3 address from the BBC feed. About two minutes per hour of audio.
Free preview; a pack opens the full transcript and SRT or VTT exports.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every BBC Sounds recording, whatever its length.
Every line carries its time. Click a line to hear that second again, or search a name or phrase and jump to each place it was said.
A brief with the takeaways, chapters with their start times, and the quotes worth keeping. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Ask where a topic came up or what was decided, and get the answer with the time it was said, instead of scrolling the whole text.
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON from the same transcript: a document to edit, caption files for video, plain text to paste, structured data for your own tools.
Pricing
A 28-minute episode is 28 minutes, so the $4 pack (300 minutes) covers it 10 times over. Every recording gets a free preview, and in 31 countries, or for recordings of an hour or more in most others, a summary you can read before paying; a pack opens the full transcript and every export. Packs are one-time purchases with no subscription and no seat fee.
Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing
3,332 recordings, 2,490 audio hours, 65 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.1 minutes for half of the recordings and within 17.5 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-28; method on how we test.
FAQ
No. BBC Sounds keeps downloads inside the app. If the programme is also published as a podcast, paste its BBC RSS feed, MP3 address or Apple Podcasts link instead.
BBC podcast feeds are at podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk followed by the programme's id and .rss. Searching the show on Podcast Index or Apple Podcasts finds the same feed.
Only if it is later published as a podcast. Live radio and on-demand-only programmes have no public file.
The preview is free, and so is the summary in 31 countries or for recordings of an hour or more. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000 minutes, $32 for 6,000 minutes. Packs are one-time, credits never expire, and Workspace is $19 a month if you transcribe every week.
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; a larger file continues on the main upload page, which uploads it in parts. Most recordings come back in about two minutes per hour of audio.
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.
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