A weekly research seminar or a professional development session runs an hour or two: a talk, then discussion that is often where the argument gets tested. Upload the recording, or paste a public YouTube link if the series posts its talks, and read it back with a timestamp on every word.
How it works
Seminars are dense, and a transcript turns listening again into reading again.
A recorder on the lectern or a phone on the front desk beats one at the back of the room. If the room has a microphone system, take its feed.
Drop the file into the box here, up to 500 MB, with larger recordings continuing on the upload page. A posted public video can be pasted as a link instead.
Find a claim by searching for a term, check the exact phrasing at its timestamp, and export DOCX or MD into your notes.
Who it is for
The value of a seminar is usually realised months later, when you need the precise claim again.
Handwritten notes stop when the argument gets interesting. The transcript keeps the part you were too busy following to write down.
Quote what the speaker said, with a timestamp attached, and hear it back before the quotation goes anywhere near a draft.
Publish a text record beside the recording on your series page so someone searching for the topic can find the talk at all.
A colleague in another city reads the seminar and the discussion, and asks a question by email that references the exact minute.
Terminology decides the quality
Specialist language is the hard part, and it is concentrated in a small number of words.
Technical terms, cited authors and acronyms are where corrections cluster. There is no word list to load in advance, so fix each term once and replace it through the document.
Nothing on screen is captured. When a speaker says as you can see here, the sentence survives and the figure does not, so keep the slide deck beside the transcript.
Questions from the floor are quieter than the speaker and often overlap. Those minutes deserve a check against the audio before you quote them.
The speaker and the questioners are separated in the transcript view on the page. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT downloads hold the words only; JSON carries the speaker field.
Pricing
a pack from $4 opens the full transcript, and a preview needs no account. Packs are one-time purchases: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes, with credits that never expire between terms.
| Seminar | Length | $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talk only | 60 min | $0.48 | $0.36 | about $0.29 |
| Talk and discussion | 90 min | $0.72 | $0.54 | about $0.43 |
| Extended session | 120 min | $0.96 | $0.72 | about $0.58 |
A weekly seminar across two twelve-week terms, at ninety minutes each, is 2,160 minutes: one $12 pack covers the year.
FAQ
Upload the recording into the box on this page, or paste the public YouTube link if the talk was posted. You get the text with word-level timestamps, and packs from $4, credits never expire.
Check the wording against the audio at its timestamp first, then quote it as you would from any recording, and follow whatever the series or your publisher expects for permission.
Field vocabulary and author names are the most common corrections. There is no custom word list, so correct each term once and replace the rest of its appearances.
Yes, everything in the recording is transcribed. Questions from the floor are quieter than the speaker, so read those passages against the audio.
The transcript view on the page separates the speaker from the questioners. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT downloads carry the text without labels, while JSON keeps the speaker field.
Twelve ninety-minute seminars is 1,080 minutes: $8.64 at the $8 rate, $6.48 on the $12 pack or about $5.18 on the $24 pack.
Instant preview, no signup, no card. A free account keeps every talk in one searchable library.