Ecamm Live saves a full-quality recording of every broadcast on your Mac, and with Pro an isolated audio file per microphone. Drop either here and get the show back as a transcript with chapters for YouTube and SRT captions for the replay.
The file you have
There is no link to paste for this one. The recording is a file on your Mac, so upload it here. If the show also went out to YouTube, the public video link can be pasted once the stream has finished.
How it works
In Ecamm Live press Shift-Command-R, or open the Ecamm folder inside Movies in Finder.
Drop the recording, or for an interview the isolated track of the voice you want. Large files continue on the main upload page.
The summary and a preview are free. A pack opens the full transcript with TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON exports.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Ecamm 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 one-hour live show is 60 minutes, so the $6 pack (500 minutes) covers it 8 times over. Every recording gets a free preview and 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
2,547 recordings, 1,244 audio hours, 66 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.5 minutes for half of the recordings and within 18.0 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-07; method on how we test.
FAQ
In a subfolder of your Mac's Movies folder by default. You can change it under Recording → Choose Recordings Folder, and Shift-Command-R opens your past recordings.
Yes. Drop the recording here; the transcript comes with SRT and VTT caption files timed to that recording.
For an accurate transcript of one voice, the isolated microphone track; for the whole show with every guest, the full recording.
Ecamm Live records and streams; to get a transcript and caption files of a finished recording, upload the file afterwards.
The preview and the summary are free. A pack opens the full transcript: $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 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.
More live streaming sources: vMix · Resi · Kick · StreamYard · Restream · Twitch
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For the recordings and videos it produces: see a video transcription service for uploads and links, how to transcribe audio to text online and our transcription service with prices and turnaround.