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Transcribe your Wave Link mix to text.

WhipScribe transcribes the recording OBS, Audacity or another app makes of your Elgato Wave Link mix. 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.

Free preview of the opening minutes Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file 99+ languages TXT · DOCX · SRT · VTT · JSON

The file you have

Where the file actually comes from.

Wave Link itself: Mixes and routes audio. It does not write a recording file you can upload.
The mix to record: Wave Link's stream mix appears to other apps as an input called Wave Link Stream. Select it as the audio source in your recorder.
Typical recorders: OBS (MKV or MP4), Audacity (WAV or MP3 after export), or any editor that records an input.
Typical size: An hour of 1080p stream video is often 2–4 GB; the same hour as audio only is about 60 MB as MP3.

There is no link to paste for this one. Get the file onto your phone or computer first, then upload it in the box above.

How it works

Three steps, the first one is the only one that takes any thought.

Record the Wave Link mix

In OBS or your audio app, pick Wave Link Stream as the input and record as usual.

Drop the recording here

MKV, MP4, WAV and MP3 all upload; files over 500 MB go through the main upload page, up to 5 GB.

Use the captions

Export SRT for the video upload, or TXT for show notes.

Good to know

What trips people up, and what to do about it.

Record the stream mix, not just your mic, if you want guests and chat voices in the transcript. Your mic alone gives only your side.
Music under your voice is heard on the stream mix. Turn it down in Wave Link while recording speech you want transcribed cleanly.
OBS multitrack recordings can carry several audio tracks in one file. The first audio track is the one read here, so put the stream mix on track 1.
For long streams, remux OBS MKV recordings to MP4 or export audio only to cut upload time; one file can run up to 10 hours.

Example. A streamer records a 2 h 15 min podcast-style stream in OBS with Wave Link Stream as the audio source, then extracts the audio as a 125 MB MP3. The transcript is back in about four and a half minutes, with chapters for the stream's segments.

What comes back

More than a wall of text.

The same four things for every Wave Link recording, whatever its length.

A transcript with timestamps

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 summary, chapters and key quotes

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.

Questions answered from the recording

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.

Every export

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

Free preview. Packs from $4, and the minutes never expire.

A 2 h 15 min stream is 135 minutes, so the $4 pack (300 minutes) covers it twice. 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.

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Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing

What we measured, last 30 days

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

Elgato Wave Link to text, answered.

Can Elgato Wave Link record?

Wave Link mixes and routes audio; it hands the mix to apps such as OBS or Audacity, which record it. Upload the file those apps save.

Which Wave Link output should I record?

The stream mix (Wave Link Stream) if you want everything your audience hears, guests included.

Can I upload an OBS recording made with Wave Link?

Yes. MKV and MP4 files upload as they are. Exporting the audio only makes the upload faster.

What does transcribing Wave Link recordings cost?

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.

How long can the recording be?

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.

Is the recording kept private?

Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.