When people transcribe
49% of transcripts start in working hours, the peak is 14:00 local, and 27% come at the weekend. 3,619 jobs, each on its uploader's own clock.
The short answer
49% of WhipScribe transcripts are started between 09:00 and 18:00 local time, and the busiest hour is 14:00; 33% start in the evening and 27% at the weekend.
Production record, 28 July 2026 to 25 October 2026. Quote with the date.
By local hour
Share of transcripts started, by hour of the day
Table: every hour
| Local hour | Started | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00–01:00 | 121 | 3.3% |
| 01:00–02:00 | 128 | 3.5% |
| 02:00–03:00 | 67 | 1.8% |
| 03:00–04:00 | 41 | 1.1% |
| 04:00–05:00 | 24 | 0.7% |
| 05:00–06:00 | 34 | 0.9% |
| 06:00–07:00 | 40 | 1.1% |
| 07:00–08:00 | 66 | 1.8% |
| 08:00–09:00 | 101 | 2.8% |
| 09:00–10:00 | 152 | 4.2% |
| 10:00–11:00 | 219 | 6.0% |
| 11:00–12:00 | 201 | 5.5% |
| 12:00–13:00 | 195 | 5.4% |
| 13:00–14:00 | 159 | 4.4% |
| 14:00–15:00 | 251 | 6.9% |
| 15:00–16:00 | 182 | 5.0% |
| 16:00–17:00 | 224 | 6.2% |
| 17:00–18:00 | 206 | 5.7% |
| 18:00–19:00 | 210 | 5.8% |
| 19:00–20:00 | 233 | 6.4% |
| 20:00–21:00 | 199 | 5.5% |
| 21:00–22:00 | 197 | 5.4% |
| 22:00–23:00 | 223 | 6.2% |
| 23:00–00:00 | 146 | 4.0% |
By weekday
Tuesday is the busiest day (16.1%) and Saturday the quietest (12.7%). The spread is narrow: recordings come in every day, and an evening or weekend upload is as normal as a Tuesday morning one.
Method
Source: the WhipScribe production job record, every job created from 28 July 2026 to 25 October 2026 (90 days, UTC). 7,417 jobs were created; 1,856 were removed as internal, test or direct API traffic (a few integrations submit in batches and would weigh one account like hundreds), and each account counts for at most its first 20 jobs (262 jobs over that cap left out). That leaves 5,299 jobs from 4,107 accounts, 3,469 of them finished recordings of a minute or more. Every kept job, finished or not, is placed on the uploader's local clock: the browser's time zone when the visit was matched (2,580 jobs), otherwise the time zone of the job's country when that country has only one (1,039). Jobs from multi-zone countries without a browser zone are left out.
Privacy: aggregates only. Every row shown stands on at least 20 jobs from at least 5 different accounts; smaller groups are folded into "other" or left out. No name, e-mail, file name, link or transcript text was read into the figures. Computed by scripts/research_production.py, measured 26 October 2026.
Questions
When do people transcribe recordings?
49% of WhipScribe transcripts are started between 09:00 and 18:00 local time, and the busiest hour is 14:00; 33% start in the evening and 27% at the weekend.
Why local time?
A recording made in Manila at 10:00 and one made in New York at 10:00 are both morning work. Converting every start to the uploader's own clock shows the working pattern instead of the server's.
Does the time of day change how fast a transcript comes back?
Processing runs on WhipScribe's own servers around the clock; the measured speed by length is on /proof/turnaround.
Cite this
WhipScribe, "When do people transcribe? Local hour and weekday, measured", production data 28 July 2026 to 25 October 2026, measured 26 October 2026. https://whipscribe.com/proof/when-people-transcribe
Free to quote and chart with that line (CC BY 4.0). Raw figures: /proof/when-people-transcribe.json.
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