Transcribe a 6-hour recording from one file.
Six hours of audio is a full day of meetings, a long deposition, or a stream that never stopped. Upload it once and it is usually ready in about 12 minutes; the first 20 minutes are free, and the 360 minutes fit one $6 pack of 500 with 140 to spare.
A whole day in one file
Six hours of recording, returned as one readable document.
Inside the ceiling
One file can be 10 hours or 5 GB, so six hours goes up whole. A six-hour MP3 is roughly 350 to 520 MB. Larger multi-gigabyte files continue on the upload page. The usual sources are a laptop recording a full meeting day, a phone left on the table through a hearing, or a streaming software file from a long broadcast.
Twelve minutes of processing
At about 2 minutes per audio hour, six hours comes back in around 12 minutes. Typing the same recording by hand would take a person most of a working week.
One $6 pack covers it
360 of the 500 minutes in a $6 pack. You keep 140 minutes for something else, and the balance does not expire, so there is no reason to buy more than you need today. If you have several days like this to transcribe, the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes holds a little over five of them.
Six hours you can search
Nobody reads six hours top to bottom. The brief gives the takeaways, chapters mark each session with its timestamp, and the chat finds the moment a figure or a name came up.
The old way
Six hours used to mean six files.
✗ Hour-sized pieces
Services that stop at one or two hours turn a day of recording into a pile of fragments.
- Three to six separate uploads
- Clocks restarting in every part
- No overview of the whole day
- Fees charged per file or per hour
- A long manual merge at the end
- A week of typing if you do it yourself
✓ One file for the day
The full six hours become one transcript with one running clock. Because the file stays whole, the brief describes the day rather than one slice of it.
- Upload the day as recorded
- About 12 minutes to process
- One $6 pack, 140 minutes left
- First 20 minutes free
- Chapters across the full day
- Five export formats
Sample
Morning session to closing remarks.
An illustrative six-hour day written for this page, not a real recording. The timestamps run from the first word to the last.
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
Six-hour recordings, answered.
How long does a 6-hour recording take?
About 12 minutes, based on roughly 2 minutes of processing per hour. Our public proof run did 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds, so six hours is well inside what has been measured.
How much does it cost to transcribe 6 hours?
Six hours is 360 minutes, which one $6 pack of 500 minutes covers with 140 left. Anyone uploading for the first time can read the first 20 minutes before paying, and no subscription is involved.
Is 6 hours too long for one file?
No. The per-file limit is 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. Anything over 10 hours goes in as two files.
What if my 6-hour file is a large WAV or video?
Six hours of WAV is around 3.8 GB, and files above 2 GB start once a pack is on the account. Saving the audio as MP3 brings it under 600 MB, and for a recording on YouTube or Google Drive you can paste the link instead of uploading. Either route avoids a large upload over a slow connection.
Which languages can a 6-hour recording be in?
Any of 99 languages, detected automatically. Mixed-language days are transcribed as spoken. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, which helps when a dozen people spoke over the course of the day.
What can I export, and is my recording used for anything else?
Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all from the single run. As for the audio itself, recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the file stays in your Library only until you delete it.
Related
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