Paste a podcast link get the full transcript.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or any public RSS feed. Word-level-timestamped and export-ready. A one-hour interview finishes in about two minutes.
What you get
What a usable podcast transcript actually needs.
Host and guest labels
Every transcript comes back as punctuated paragraphs with a timestamp on each, so you can jump to any moment of an interview or panel. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
RSS-aware ingestion
Paste an Apple Podcasts show link or the RSS feed and we resolve the feed and transcribe the newest episode; for an older one, paste that episode's own link. No download step. Spotify links cannot be transcribed because their audio is protected: use the same episode's Apple Podcasts link.
Five export formats
TXT for show notes. DOCX for the editor. SRT and VTT for accessible audiograms. JSON if you're feeding the transcript into a search index or an LLM. One run, all five formats.
Edit and re-export
Open the transcript in our editor, fix a misheard name or jargon term, and the SRT and VTT update with it. No round-trip through a desktop captioning app or a separate cleanup tool.
Why a real transcript matters
Apple's auto-captions vs a real podcast transcript.
✗ Apple Podcasts auto-captions
Available on a fraction of episodes, locked to the Apple app, and with no sign of who is talking. Useful inside the player, useless for show notes or search.
- No speaker labels — hosts and guests merge
- Locked inside the Apple Podcasts app
- Not available on every episode
- Can't export DOCX, SRT, or JSON
- Spotify and Overcast users see nothing
✓ A real Whipscribe transcript
Timestamped paragraphs in the transcript view and every export format. Drops straight into show notes or a podcast search index.
- Host / Guest labels on every line
- Properly punctuated paragraphs
- Word-level timestamps
- 99 languages, auto-detected
- TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, JSON — all five
Sample output
Timestamped. Click-to-seek. Exportable.
This is what a real podcast transcript looks like. Click any word to jump the audio; edit any line and the SRT updates with it.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Podcast transcript questions, answered.
Which podcast platforms do you support?
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Pocket Casts, and any podcast that publishes a public RSS feed (which is almost all of them). Paste the show URL or the direct episode URL — we resolve the feed and pull the audio. Private or paywalled feeds are not supported.
How long does a one-hour episode take?
Two to four minutes for English on a clean recording. Slightly longer for low-resource languages, heavy background music, or in-the-field interviews with traffic noise. Live progress shows in the queue and you get a browser notification when it finishes.
Will it correctly label three or four speakers?
Panels and roundtables transcribe like any other recording, with a timestamp on every line. The summary, key quotes and chapters name each speaker, so a three- or four-person panel reads with who said what there; the transcript lines themselves carry timestamps, not names, and overlapping speech is the hard case for any engine.
Can I transcribe a podcast I don't own?
For personal use (research notes, accessibility, your own quote-checking) — yes. For republishing the transcript publicly — you need permission from the show. We require a rights attestation at upload to keep the platform clean.
Does it handle thick accents and non-English shows?
Whipscribe covers 99 languages with auto-detect. Accuracy on heavy regional accents (broad Scottish, Singlish, mixed-language code-switching) is good but not perfect — expect noticeably more words to fix than on neutral English.
Where does my transcript go after I download it?
Transcripts in your library are retained for 365 days; you can delete any item from your account settings. We never train AI models on your audio or transcripts.
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