For law students & policy researchers

Read a three-hour hearing the way you read a document

Transcribe the recording once, then search every line, ask it questions, and jump straight to the moment behind any answer. Built for the sitting you have to work through, not the clip you want to post.

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100+ languages · speaker labels · timestamps throughout · your audio is never used to train a model

The problem isn't the transcript. It's finding the line again.

A committee sitting, an oral argument, a lecture series — the recording is three hours and the part you need is ninety seconds of it. Getting words on a page is the easy half. The work is going back to a passage, checking what was actually said, and being able to point at it.

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    Transcribe the whole sitting

    Upload the file or paste a link. Long single-session recordings are the normal case here — there's no short length cap, and timestamps run the whole way through. Speakers are labelled, so you can tell the chair from the witness.

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    Search every line, not the file name

    Type a phrase and get every line that contains it, each with its timestamp, so you can judge relevance before you jump. Accents and case are ignored — typing codigo finds código — which matters when the record isn't in English.

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    Ask it questions, in the language of the record

    Ask what a provision requires, who raised an objection, or what was conceded — and get an answer grounded only in that transcript, replying in the language it was spoken in.

    “What did the witness say about the compliance obligation?”
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    Click the citation and hear it

    Every timestamp in an answer is a link. Click it and the transcript jumps to that line and the audio plays from it — so you check the passage yourself before you rely on it, rather than taking a summary's word.

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    Take it with you

    Export as plain text, Word, JSON, or subtitle formats with timings intact. Copy a passage with its timestamp straight into your notes or your draft.

Where this earns its place

Long records, more than one language, and a need to point at the source.

Legislative & committee hearings

Full sittings where the useful exchange is buried in procedural hours. Search the debate for the clause, the objection, or the name.

multi-hour · speaker labels

Lectures and seminars

Work a term's recordings into something searchable, then ask across a single lecture when revising a topic you half-remember.

long-form · 100+ languages

Interviews and expert panels

Long-form conversation where the substance arrives unannounced two hours in, and quoting it means finding it exactly.

timestamped quotes

Consultations and public comment

Recorded sessions on a draft instrument — search across what was said about a specific article rather than re-listening.

export with timings

What this is, and what it isn't

Whipscribe is a research tool. It transcribes what was said and helps you find it again. It does not interpret law, and nothing it produces is legal advice.

Transcription is machine-generated. It is strong on ordinary speech and weaker on proper nouns, figures, and technical vocabulary — exactly the things a citation turns on. Listen to the passage before you quote it in a filing, a paper, or anything else that matters. That is why every citation here is a link to the audio rather than a number on a page.

What it costs

Priced per minute of audio, so a single long hearing is cheap and a term of them is predictable.

PlanPriceMinutesRoughly
Starter$4/mo300five hours — a couple of sittings
Pro$12/mo2,00033 hours — a research term
Team$24/mo5,00083 hours — a group or a clinic

Asking questions of a transcript is included on every paid plan. Full pricing →

Start with the recording that's been sitting there

Upload a file or paste a link. You'll have it searchable in minutes, and you can ask it the question you actually opened it for.

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Questions

Can it handle a three-hour hearing?

Yes. There's no short length cap, and long single-session recordings are the normal case here — committee hearings, oral arguments, full-day conferences. Timestamps run the whole way through.

Does it work in languages other than English?

Over 100 languages, and the transcript stays in the language it was spoken in — as do the answers when you ask questions of it. Search ignores accents, so typing codigo finds código.

Can I trust the timestamps enough to cite them?

Timestamps come from the audio itself, and every citation in an answer links to the exact line so you can hear it before you use it. Always listen to the passage before quoting it in anything that matters — transcription is machine-generated and can mishear names, figures and technical terms.

Where does my audio go?

Whipscribe runs open-source Whisper on private infrastructure. Your audio is never sent to a third-party transcription service, and it is never used to train a model.

Is any of this legal advice?

No. It's a research tool — it transcribes what was said and helps you find it again. Interpretation is yours.