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Transcribe a podcast you found on Himalaya.

WhipScribe transcribes Himalaya's public podcasts from their feed or Apple Podcasts link; paid courses cannot be fetched. 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

What you can use from Himalaya.

Public podcasts
Work. Find the same show in Apple Podcasts or its feed and paste the episode's link.
Paid courses and premium content
Do not work: they are sold inside the app and have no public file.
Himalaya link
Does not work: a himalaya.com page is Himalaya's player, not an audio file.
Downloaded episode
Kept inside the Himalaya app; there is no file to upload.

Sometimes a link works. Paste the public show's Apple Podcasts link or RSS feed. Himalaya links will not work.

How it works

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

1

Find the public show

Search its name in Apple Podcasts or on its website.

2

Paste the episode's link

About two minutes of processing per hour of audio.

3

Read the notes

Free preview; a pack opens the full transcript and chapters.

Good to know

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

Example. A listener finds a 41-minute public self-improvement podcast on Himalaya. They copy the episode's Apple Podcasts link, paste it here and keep the summary's key points, ready in about a minute and a half.

What comes back

More than a wall of text.

The same four things for every Himalaya 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 41-minute episode is 41 minutes, so the $4 pack (300 minutes) covers it 7 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

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

Himalaya to text, answered.

Can I transcribe a Himalaya course I paid for?

No. Paid courses are protected and stay inside the Himalaya app. Only public podcasts with a feed can be transcribed.

How do I find a Himalaya podcast's feed?

Search the show in Apple Podcasts or on Podcast Index. If it is there, paste the episode's link.

Does it work for Chinese-language podcasts?

Yes. Chinese is detected automatically and the transcript is in Chinese.

What does transcribing Himalaya 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.

Keep going

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Related: Podcast transcript from an RSS feed · Apple Podcasts transcript · Find a show's feed on Podcast Index · Transcribe a podcast episode

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