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Plug the recorder into your computer, copy the MP3 or WAV from the REC_FILE folder and drop it here. Lectures and interviews of several hours are fine, and the transcript comes back with timestamps and a summary.
The file you have
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
Slide out the USB plug or use the cable; the recorder shows up as a drive.
Open FOLDER01 and copy the MP3 or WAV to your computer.
The transcript comes back in about two minutes per hour of audio.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Sony recorder 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 70-minute interview is 70 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 7 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
Connect the recorder by USB, open REC_FILE → FOLDER01 on the drive that appears, copy the MP3 to your computer and drop it in the box on this page.
Not directly. Those are older Sony-only formats. Convert them to MP3 or WAV with Sony's Sound Organizer or Digital Voice Editor, then upload the converted file.
Less than microphone distance does. Any MP3 setting from 128 kbps up, or LPCM, is fine for speech.
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.
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Free preview, no signup to try. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file.
For the recordings and videos it produces: see video transcription services with SRT and VTT exports, an online transcription service with nothing to install and how our transcription services work.