Transcribe a 4-hour recording in about 8 minutes.
Four hours is a half-day workshop, a long hearing, or a board meeting that ran over. Upload the recording as one file: it usually takes about 8 minutes, the first 20 minutes are free, and the 240 minutes still fit inside a single $6 pack of 500.
Half a day of talk
A recording that fills a morning should not fill your afternoon.
One upload for the session
A 4-hour recording from a Zoom room, a field recorder or a phone left on the table goes up as one file. The limit is 10 hours or 5 GB, so four hours leaves plenty of headroom. Field recorders often save four hours as several numbered files of their own; if yours did, upload them one by one, or join them first if you want a single timeline.
About eight minutes
Roughly 2 minutes per audio hour puts four hours at about 8 minutes. Recordings with long silent breaks, like a workshop with exercises, often finish a little sooner.
Still inside one small pack
240 minutes from a 500-minute pack leaves 260. You pay $6 once and keep the remainder with no expiry, which is enough for another four-hour session. The first 20 minutes are free before you spend anything.
Navigate by session
Long sessions have structure: opening remarks, blocks of discussion, breaks, a wrap-up. Chapters with timestamps mark each part, and the chat can find the point where a decision was made. The names, numbers and dates said during the session are listed separately, which helps when you need the figure someone quoted in hour three.
Typical problems
What happens to a four-hour file elsewhere.
✗ Over every cap
Four hours exceeds the length limit on most services and the file size limit on several.
- Rejected at upload for length
- Advice to cut it into hour-long parts
- Four separate transcripts
- No summary of the whole session
- A subscription to cover one long file
- Days of manual typing as the fallback
✓ A normal file here
The four hours become one document you can search and quote. The first 20 minutes are free, so you can judge the result on your own recording before buying a pack.
- Upload the whole recording
- About 8 minutes to finish
- 260 minutes left on a $6 pack
- First 20 minutes free
- Chapters across all four hours
- Same five export formats
Sample transcript
A half-day workshop, start to end.
These lines are illustrative and were written for this page. They follow a four-hour workshop with a break, with timestamps that never reset.
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
Four-hour recordings, the questions.
How long does it take to transcribe a 4-hour recording?
About 8 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. You get a status on the page, and the finished transcript waits in your Library. Typing four hours by hand takes most people sixteen hours or more, which is why long sessions often go untranscribed.
What does a 4-hour recording cost?
Four hours is 240 minutes. A $6 pack has 500, so 260 minutes remain after this file. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and the pack transcribes the rest from where that preview ended.
Is there a length limit that four hours could hit?
No. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Four hours of MP3 is around 230 to 350 MB, and four hours of WAV is about 2.5 GB.
My 4-hour WAV is over 2 GB. Can I still send it?
Files over 2 GB start once a pack is on the account; below 2 GB they upload before you buy. You can also save the recording as MP3 or M4A, which shrinks it to a few hundred megabytes with nothing lost for transcription.
Which languages are supported?
99, with the language detected automatically. If the session switches language between speakers, the text follows what was spoken.
What formats come out, and is the recording private?
Downloads come as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, whichever your next step needs. A four-hour session can hold sensitive discussion, so it matters that recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training; you can also delete them whenever you like.
Related
Related.
Four hours of recording. About eight minutes of waiting.
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