Transcribe a long interview without splitting the file.
A two-hour sit-down, a three-hour oral history, a whole afternoon of fieldwork — upload it as one file, up to 12 hours and 5 GB. Your first transcript is free at any length, and a three-hour interview is usually finished in well under ten minutes.
What you get
Length is where transcription tools break. This is the part we built for.
The whole interview, in one file
One upload, up to 12 hours and 5 GB. A three-hour sit-down, a long focus group, a full day of field recording — it goes in whole. Recordings longer than that are split before processing on our side; you never cut a file, number the pieces, or stitch the text back together.
Free the first time, at any length
Your first transcript is free whether it runs eight minutes or eight hours — no card, no account needed to start. The second is $0.99, once per email address. After that it is $8 for 1,000 minutes, one-time, no subscription, and the minutes do not expire.
Back in minutes, not overnight
Processing runs at roughly two minutes of wall clock per hour of audio, so a three-hour interview is usually done in well under ten minutes. Long recordings are not queued to a slower lane than short ones.
More than the words
Every recording comes back with a summary, the takeaways, key quotes each carrying the timestamp it sits at, and chapters that break the hours into sections you can scan. On a three-hour interview that is the difference between a text file and something you can actually work from.
Ask the interview a question
There is a chat over the finished transcript, so you can ask where a topic came up instead of scrolling three hours of text looking for it. Everything stays in a searchable Library, and you can export the same transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX or JSON.
A whole set of interviews at once
Import a Google Drive folder and every recording in it is queued — useful when the fieldwork is done and there are eighteen files sitting in one place. There is also an API with keys if you would rather submit them from your own script.
Why long is different
A long interview is not just a short one with more minutes.
✗ The usual long-interview routine
The recordings that matter most — the oral history, the two-hour expert call, the half-day of fieldwork — are the ones the tooling fights you on. The work lands on you before a word is transcribed.
- Cut a three-hour file into chunks so it will upload
- Re-number the timestamps by hand once the pieces come back separately
- Pay by the minute, so the longest recording costs the most to look at
- Take out a subscription for two weeks of fieldwork
- End up with an undifferentiated wall of text and no way into it
✓ The same interview here
One file in, one transcript out, with the hours already broken into something you can navigate. The first one costs nothing regardless of how long it runs.
- One upload up to 12 hours and 5 GB — you split nothing
- Timestamps run continuously from the first minute to the last
- First transcript free at any length, second $0.99
- Then $8 for 1,000 minutes, one-time — minutes do not expire
- Summary, chapters, takeaways and key quotes with their timestamps
- Usually about two minutes of processing per hour of audio
Sample output
Timestamped from the first minute to the third hour.
The transcript comes back as continuous, punctuated text with a timestamp on every passage, so a sentence from hour three is as easy to find again as one from minute two. Illustrative sample — not from a real recording.
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
Word-level. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Per-word timing + speaker IDs.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
Your first transcript is free at any length and your second is $0.99. 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
$8/1,000 min
16 hours of audio — $0.48 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 1,000 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 interview transcription, answered.
Can I transcribe a 2-hour or 3-hour interview in one go?
Yes. One file can run up to 12 hours and 5 GB, so a two- or three-hour interview goes in whole. You do not split it, and the timestamps run continuously from the first minute to the last.
What is the longest interview I can upload?
Twelve hours in a single file, up to 5 GB. Recordings longer than that are split before processing on our side — you still upload one file and get one transcript back. Nothing about the length changes what you have to do.
How long does a 3-hour interview take to transcribe?
Processing usually runs at roughly two minutes of wall clock per hour of audio, so three hours is normally finished in well under ten minutes. It is an average rather than a guarantee — very noisy field recordings can take longer. You can close the tab and come back to it.
What does it cost to transcribe a long interview?
Your first transcript is free at any length — a six-hour recording costs the same as a six-minute one, which is nothing. The second is $0.99, once per email address. After that, minute packs are one-time and carry no subscription: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000, $24 for 5,000, and the minutes do not expire.
Do I have to split the file myself?
No. That is the point of this page. Upload the recording as it came off the recorder — splitting, chunk numbering and stitching the text back together are not steps you perform.
Is this suitable for oral history interviews?
It is built for exactly that length of recording. Ninety-nine languages are detected automatically, so you do not choose one, and a long interview in a mixed or less common language is handled the same way as an English one. Your recordings and transcripts are never used to train AI.
What do I get back besides the transcript?
A summary, the takeaways, key quotes that each carry the timestamp they sit at, chapters that divide the recording into sections, and a chat over the transcript so you can ask where something came up. On a three-hour interview the chapters and the chat are usually how you find your way in.
Can I upload a whole set of interviews at once?
Yes. Import a Google Drive folder and every recording inside it is queued in one action. Everything lands in a searchable Library, and there is an API with keys if you would rather submit the set from your own script.
Which formats can I export, and can I get a version for my editor?
Every transcript exports as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON. DOCX is the one to send an editor or a supervisor; SRT and VTT carry the timing for captions; JSON is the one to feed a search index or a coding tool.
Do I need an account to start?
No card and no account are needed for the first transcript. Upload the recording, wait the few minutes, and read it. An account is what keeps the transcript in your Library afterwards.
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