Many network podcasts are hosted on Megaphone, and their episode audio links can be pasted here as they are. You get the episode as timestamped text with a summary and chapters.
The file you have
A link works here. Paste the public link in the box above and the audio is fetched for you; uploading the file works too.
How it works
From the feed, or the episode's Apple Podcasts share link.
About two minutes of processing per hour of episode.
Summary free; a pack opens the full transcript.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Megaphone 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 62-minute episode is 62 minutes, so the $4 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
1,901 recordings, 830 audio hours, 64 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.7 minutes for half of the recordings and within 19.7 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-02; method on how we test.
FAQ
Paste the episode's audio link (the megaphone.fm address in the show's feed), the feed itself, or the episode's Apple Podcasts link in the box on this page.
Megaphone inserts ads into the audio when it is downloaded, so they are part of the file that gets transcribed.
The preview and the summary are free. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 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 podcast hosting sources: Podbean · Podcast RSS feed · Transistor · Omny Studio · Buzzsprout · Libsyn · Spotify for Creators
Related: Podcast transcript from an RSS feed · Podcast transcripts · Transcribe a podcast episode · Apple Podcasts transcript
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