To transcribe a 3-hour podcast, drop the episode file or paste its link in the box below: one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, it takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio (so a 3-hour episode in about six minutes), the opening minutes are a free preview, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest.
Found the episode on Spotify? Spotify links cannot be transcribed. Paste the same episode's Apple Podcasts link, the show's RSS feed or its MP3 link, or upload the file. How to get a transcript of a Spotify podcast.
How it works
No installs and no splitting a long episode into parts.
Upload the episode as it came out of your editor — MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and the rest — or paste a public link to it. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Recorded in Riverside? See Riverside transcription for which file to download.
About 2 minutes per hour of audio later, the episode has a free preview, and in 31 countries or past an hour a free summary, so you can see what came out before you spend anything.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full timestamped transcript, with exports as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON. Credits never expire.
What comes back with each episode
A three-hour episode is only useful as text if you can find your way around it.
A short brief of what the episode argues and what a listener takes away — the start of an episode page or a show-notes draft.
The hours broken into sections, each with the time it starts, so you do not hand-cue chapter markers.
The people, figures and dates that were said, pulled out of the episode so you can check them without listening again.
Ask where a topic came up or what was said about it, instead of scrolling three hours of text.
Pricing
A 3-hour episode is 180 minutes, so the $4 pack (300 minutes) covers it with minutes to spare. Packs are one-time, with no subscription, and credits never expire. Workspace is $19 a month if you would rather have one monthly price. See pricing.
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Where is the episode?
An RSS feed, an episode's MP3 address and an Apple Podcasts link can all be pasted; a Spotify link cannot, because its audio is protected. Each page below has the exact steps, and where the finished transcript goes on your host.
3,332 recordings, 2,490 audio hours, 65 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.1 minutes for half of the recordings and within 17.5 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-28; method on how we test.
FAQ
To transcribe a 3-hour podcast, drop the episode file or paste its link in the box on this page: one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, it takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio (so a 3-hour episode in about six minutes), the opening minutes are a free preview, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest. A 3-hour episode is 180 minutes, so the $4 pack covers it with minutes to spare.
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 45-minute episode is usually back in about a minute and a half and a 3-hour episode in about six minutes. It is an average, not a guarantee: a very noisy recording can take longer. Keep the tab open: the transcript appears there the moment it is ready, and it stays in your Library.
Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. Packs are one-time, with no subscription: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000 and $32 for 6,000, and credits never expire. If you publish every week and want one monthly price, Workspace is $19 a month.
No. Transcripts are not separated by speaker, so a two-person conversation comes back as one punctuated, timestamped body of text. If your workflow needs every line attributed to a person, this will not do that part for you.
Yes. Paste a public link to the episode — a YouTube video, an Apple Podcasts or RSS link, or a direct audio URL — or import the file from Google Drive. Spotify links cannot be read because the audio is protected; use the same episode on Apple Podcasts or the show's feed. One link is one episode; for a whole back catalogue, see the podcast archive page linked below.
MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, WEBM and the other common audio and video formats. 99 languages are detected automatically, so you do not choose one before you upload.
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON from the same transcript. DOCX for an editor or show notes draft, SRT and VTT for captions on clips and video uploads, JSON for your own tools.
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete an episode and its transcript at any time.
Longer or more of them: long recordings · a whole podcast archive · files up to 5 GB · long interviews.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript.
For the recordings you have now: see how our transcription services work and an audio transcription service that takes links or files.