Transcribe a 2-hour audio file as one piece.
A two-hour audio file is too long for most free tools and too short to justify a subscription. Upload it once here and it comes back in about 4 minutes as one transcript with one timeline; the first 20 minutes are free, and the full 120 minutes use less than a quarter of a $6 pack.
Two hours, handled
The length that breaks free tiers is an ordinary file here.
No halves to stitch
Plenty of tools cap a file at 60 or 90 minutes, which turns a two-hour seminar into part one and part two with clocks that both start at zero. Here the file goes up as recorded and the timestamps run straight through. A two-hour file is usually a double lecture, a long podcast conversation, or a workshop that someone forgot to stop recording at the break.
About four minutes
At roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, a 120-minute file is usually finished in about 4. The status updates on the page, and the result also lands in your Library if you walk away.
The arithmetic
Two hours is 120 minutes. The $6 pack holds 500, so 380 minutes remain afterwards, enough for three more recordings of the same length. Minutes stay on the account with no expiry date.
Find the part you need
Two hours of talk is too long to scroll. The brief gives the thesis and takeaways, chapters mark where each topic starts, and the chat answers questions like when the budget came up, with the timestamp to check it.
Before
What two hours of audio usually turns into.
✗ Cut, upload, merge
When a service tops out at an hour, the recording becomes a small editing job before any transcription starts. Every cut is a place where a sentence can fall between two parts.
- Opening an audio editor to cut it in half
- Two uploads and two waits
- A second clock restarting at 00:00:00
- Merging two documents by hand
- Losing a sentence at the cut point
- A subscription for a one-off file
✓ Upload it as it is
The two hours stay one recording from upload to export.
- One upload of the whole file
- Timestamps that run past the hour
- First 20 minutes free to check quality
- One $6 pack, 380 minutes left over
- Speakers named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- Exports in five formats
Sample output
Minute 5 and minute 115 in the same document.
An illustrative sample written for this page. The point is the clock: it keeps counting past the first hour instead of starting again in a second file.
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 $6 (500 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
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Two-hour files, answered.
How long does a 2-hour audio file take to transcribe?
About 4 minutes in most cases, based on roughly 2 minutes of processing per hour of audio. Heavy noise or long silences can stretch that a little. You do not need to keep the browser open. Uploading a 150 MB MP3 on a normal home connection takes about a minute, so the whole trip from file to text is usually under ten.
How much does 2 hours of audio cost?
120 minutes, taken from a $6 pack of 500 minutes, which leaves 380. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, so you can read the opening before paying. Packs are one-time payments and the minutes never expire.
Do I need to split a 2-hour recording?
No. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so two hours is well inside the limit. Upload it whole and the transcript keeps one continuous timeline.
How big is a 2-hour audio file?
A 2-hour MP3 is typically 100 to 230 MB depending on bitrate, and a WAV of the same length is about 1.2 GB. Either uploads before you buy anything, since files up to 2 GB start without a pack.
Can a 2-hour recording be in another language?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and the brief and chapters come back for the whole recording in the same way.
What can I export, and is the recording kept private?
Five formats are available: TXT for plain reading, DOCX for editing, SRT and VTT for captions, and JSON for your own tools. The privacy line we hold to is simple, in that recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related lengths and recordings.
Two hours in. One transcript out.
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