Transcribe a long voice recording from the phone or the recorder in your pocket.
A long voice recording usually comes from a phone app or a small handheld recorder that ran through a meeting, a lecture, an interview or a site visit. Those files tend to be one to four hours long and small, usually M4A, MP3, AMR or WAV, and each goes up here as one file. Processing takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio, and the first 20 minutes of your first recording are free.
Recorders and phones
Whatever the device saved, send that.
The formats recorders use
Phones mostly save M4A, some Android apps save AMR or MP3, and handheld dictation recorders save MP3 or WAV. Voice M4A runs about 30 to 60 MB per hour, a 128 kbps MP3 about 58 MB and a CD-quality WAV about 635 MB, so only a WAV from a long day gets near the 2 GB line.
Off the recorder, into the browser
Plug a handheld recorder into a computer and it usually shows up as a drive, so you can drag the file straight from there. On a phone, save the recording to Files or the downloads folder and pick it in the upload box. Long WAVs from a recorder go up more smoothly from the upload page.
Distance and room noise
A voice recorder often sits on a table across the room, so voices arrive at different levels. Speech is transcribed as it was captured, and a recorder placed near the people talking gives the cleanest result.
From hours to a page
The brief gives the thesis and takeaways, chapters break the recording into sections with timestamps, and the questions the recording answers are listed. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Before / after
The recording you meant to listen back to.
✗ Stuck in the recorder
Long voice recordings pile up because listening back takes as long as the meeting did.
- Hours of audio replayed to find one remark
- Notes typed from memory instead
- A recorder file too big for an email attachment
- A folder of recordings named by date and nothing else
- Decisions remembered differently by everyone in the room
- Follow-ups lost because nobody wrote them down
✓ Read instead of replay
Each recording comes back as text with its structure laid out.
- Up to 10 hours per recording, one upload
- A two-hour recording processed in about four minutes
- Chapters that show where each topic starts
- Names, numbers and dates listed as they were said
- A chat that answers questions about the recording
- Two hours uses 120 minutes of a $6 pack
Sample output
A tabletop recorder, two hours in.
This is an illustrative sample, not a real voice recording. It shows how a long recording made on a phone or handheld recorder returns with its times.
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
Voice recording questions.
How long does a long voice recording take?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio after upload, so a three-hour recording is usually ready in about six minutes and a one-hour one in about two.
What does it cost to transcribe a four-hour voice recording?
Four hours is 240 minutes. On your first recording the first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack (500 minutes) covers the whole four hours with at least 260 minutes to spare. Those minutes do not expire.
Is my recorder's file too big?
Almost certainly not. The limits are 10 hours and 5 GB per file, and before your first pack uploads go up to 2 GB, which covers any M4A, MP3 or AMR voice recording and about three hours of CD-quality WAV.
My recorder split the session into several files. Do I join them?
No need. Upload each file and you get a transcript for each, in order. Some recorders start a new file at a fixed size, so a long session can arrive as two or three parts.
Which languages can the recording be in?
Any of 99 languages, detected automatically, so a recording in Spanish, Hindi or Japanese needs no setting.
What exports are there, and where does the recording go?
Five formats: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related pages.
Stop replaying the recording. Read it instead.
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