{
 "name": "Share of speech in recordings people transcribe (WhipScribe production)",
 "url": "https://whipscribe.com/proof/speech-share",
 "measured_at": "2026-10-26",
 "window": {
  "from": "2026-07-28",
  "to": "2026-10-25",
  "days": 90,
  "timezone": "UTC"
 },
 "population": {
  "jobs_seen": 7417,
  "jobs_excluded": 1856,
  "excluded_by_reason": {
   "internal account": 267,
   "test file": 101,
   "internal person": 24,
   "internal API key": 928,
   "direct API integration": 536
  },
  "jobs_over_account_cap": 262,
  "accounts": 4107,
  "jobs_kept": 5299,
  "finished_60s_plus": 3469
 },
 "min_cell": 20,
 "min_accounts": 5,
 "account_cap": 20,
 "cite": "WhipScribe, \"How much of a recording is speech? Measured on 2,511 files\", measured 2026-10-26, https://whipscribe.com/proof/speech-share",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "verdict": "The median recording people bring to WhipScribe is 80% speech; one in 6 is less than half speech, and across 2,257 hours of audio 706 hours were silence, music or noise.",
 "speech": {
  "n": 2511,
  "median": 0.796,
  "p10": 0.302,
  "share_under_50": 0.166,
  "share_under_10": 0.067,
  "share_90_plus": 0.199,
  "non_speech_hours": 706,
  "audio_hours": 2257,
  "bands": [
   {
    "band": "under 10%",
    "n": 169,
    "share": 0.067
   },
   {
    "band": "10–25%",
    "n": 59,
    "share": 0.023
   },
   {
    "band": "25–50%",
    "n": 188,
    "share": 0.075
   },
   {
    "band": "50–75%",
    "n": 588,
    "share": 0.234
   },
   {
    "band": "75–90%",
    "n": 1007,
    "share": 0.401
   },
   {
    "band": "90% or more",
    "n": 500,
    "share": 0.199
   }
  ],
  "by_kind": [
   {
    "kind": "file upload",
    "n": 1349,
    "median": 0.787,
    "share_under_50": 0.165
   },
   {
    "kind": "link",
    "n": 1160,
    "median": 0.818,
    "share_under_50": 0.167
   }
  ],
  "by_format": [
   {
    "ext": "m4a",
    "n": 548,
    "median": 0.778,
    "share_under_50": 0.122
   },
   {
    "ext": "mp3",
    "n": 437,
    "median": 0.804,
    "share_under_50": 0.167
   },
   {
    "ext": "mp4",
    "n": 199,
    "median": 0.822,
    "share_under_50": 0.216
   },
   {
    "ext": "wav",
    "n": 60,
    "median": 0.78,
    "share_under_50": 0.25
   },
   {
    "ext": "mov",
    "n": 23,
    "median": 0.75,
    "share_under_50": 0.348
   },
   {
    "ext": "ogg",
    "n": 21,
    "median": 0.805,
    "share_under_50": 0.19
   }
  ],
  "by_length": [
   {
    "band": "under 5 min",
    "n": 554,
    "median": 0.789
   },
   {
    "band": "5–15 min",
    "n": 415,
    "median": 0.777
   },
   {
    "band": "15–30 min",
    "n": 324,
    "median": 0.837
   },
   {
    "band": "30–60 min",
    "n": 489,
    "median": 0.841
   },
   {
    "band": "1–2 h",
    "n": 410,
    "median": 0.791
   },
   {
    "band": "2–4 h",
    "n": 224,
    "median": 0.683
   },
   {
    "band": "4 h or more",
    "n": 95,
    "median": 0.681
   }
  ]
 }
}