Transcribe 8 hours of audio in one go.
Eight hours is an all-day recording: a conference room left running, a full shift, a training day. Upload it as one file and it is usually done in about 16 minutes; the first 20 minutes are free, and 480 minutes fits a $6 pack of 500 with 20 to spare.
All-day recordings
The recorder ran all day. The transcript takes a quarter of an hour.
An almost exact fit
Eight hours is 480 minutes, and the $6 pack holds 500. One pack covers the whole day with 20 minutes left. If you record days like this every week, the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes brings the rate down to $0.36 an hour.
About sixteen minutes
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per audio hour. All-day recordings often contain lunch breaks and empty rooms, and those quiet stretches go quickly. Even a busy day of speech rarely takes much longer than the average.
Mind the file size
Eight hours of MP3 is around 460 to 700 MB and uploads straight away. Eight hours of WAV is about 5 GB, right at the ceiling, so save it as MP3 or M4A first.
The day, in chapters
A full day has sessions, breaks and side conversations. The brief sums up what was decided, chapters with timestamps mark each block, and the names, numbers and dates said during the day are collected in one place. Eight hours of talk can run past seventy thousand words, so those aids are what make the text usable.
Without it
Eight hours of audio, the slow way.
✗ A day of files
Most tools see an eight-hour file as eight problems. By the time the pieces are uploaded, the day the recording was meant to document is long past.
- Rejected for length, then for size
- Eight one-hour pieces to upload
- Lunch breaks transcribed as noise
- No single summary of the day
- Monthly plans priced for teams
- Thirty-plus hours to type by hand
✓ One file for the whole day
The full eight hours come back as one transcript.
- One upload, one timeline
- About 16 minutes
- $6 pack covers 480 minutes
- First 20 minutes free
- Chapters for each block
- Captions and documents from the same run
Sample output
From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on one clock.
Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page to show how an all-day training recording reads, with long breaks skipped and the clock intact.
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
Eight-hour recordings, answered.
How long does it take to transcribe 8 hours of audio?
About 16 minutes. Speed is roughly 2 minutes per hour, and a published proof run transcribed 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds. The upload is usually the longer part: a 600 MB MP3 takes a few minutes on a home connection.
How much does 8 hours of transcription cost?
480 minutes, which a $6 pack of 500 covers with 20 left. The first 20 minutes are free so you can see the opening before buying. Credits never expire.
Can I upload 8 hours as a single file?
Yes. The limit is 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Before your first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, which covers eight hours of MP3 or M4A easily. Common sources are a conference room recorder, a body-worn or dictation device, or a laptop that captured a whole training day.
My 8-hour recording is a 5 GB WAV. What now?
Save it as MP3 or M4A, which brings it to well under 1 GB with nothing lost for transcription. If the recording lives on Google Drive or YouTube, paste the link, and no upload is needed.
What about the quiet parts of an all-day recording?
Silence is not text, so breaks and empty stretches produce nothing to read. The speech around them comes back with its real timestamps, so you can see where the gaps were.
Which exports and languages, and is it private?
Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and the language can be any of 99, detected automatically. A full day can capture conversations nobody meant to share, so note that recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related.
A full day of recording. About sixteen minutes to read it.
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