Transcribe a 2-hour focus group and see what the group said.
To transcribe a 2-hour focus group, upload the recording or paste its link below; the transcript, a summary and key quotes with participants named come back in about four minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, the $6 pack covers one session, and eight sessions of 120 minutes fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For group discussions
When eight people talk for two hours, structure matters more than speed.
What the summary gives you
The brief states what the group concluded and where it disagreed, with takeaways underneath. Speakers are named in it where the recording makes them clear, as when the moderator uses first names.
Quotes from the room
Key quotes carry the participant's name and the timestamp. Those are the lines that end up in a findings deck, already pulled from two hours of talk.
Chapters follow the discussion guide
When the moderator moves from one prompt to the next, a new chapter usually starts. Each chapter has a title and a timestamp, so you can compare how several groups handled the same prompt.
Several sessions at once
A study with eight groups can go in from a Google Drive folder link. A single session saved as a large video can continue on the upload page.
Why groups are harder
More voices, more crosstalk, and the same two hours to get through.
✗ Working from the recording
Focus groups overlap, interrupt and drift. Notes taken in the room catch the loudest voices, not always the important ones. With several groups in a study, comparing them from notes alone is guesswork.
- Moderator notes that miss quiet participants
- Two hours of audio per group to replay
- No single place to compare groups by topic
- Quotes written down without a time to check them
- A typed transcript that takes days per session
- A per-minute bill that grows with every group
✓ The same session here
Each session comes back as a transcript with the discussion already summarised and divided by topic.
- A summary of agreements and disagreements
- Key quotes with participants named
- Chapters for each prompt in the guide
- The questions the session answered
- A $12 pack for eight two-hour groups
- DOCX for import into your qualitative software
Sample output
The moment the room disagreed.
Written for this page as an illustration. No real focus group, participant or brand is represented.
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
Long focus group transcription, answered.
How long does a 2-hour focus group take?
Around four minutes of processing, based on about 2 minutes per hour of audio. A full study of eight sessions is about half an hour of processing in total.
What does it cost for one group or a whole study?
One 120-minute session fits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 free minutes. Eight sessions are 960 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Twenty sessions of two hours, 2,400 minutes, need the $24 pack of 5,000.
Is there a size limit for video of a session?
Each file can be up to 5 GB. Before a pack is on your account, the upload limit is 2 GB; larger files start after a pack is added. Sessions stored in Google Drive can be pasted as links.
Should I split the session into the warm-up and the main discussion?
No. Keep it as one file; anything up to 10 hours goes in whole, and one timeline makes the chapters line up with your guide.
Can the groups be held in other languages?
Yes. Each session's language is detected automatically among 99, so a multi-country study goes in without settings.
How do I export for analysis, and is it confidential?
Export DOCX and import it as a document into NVivo, ATLAS.ti or MAXQDA, or use TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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