Transcribe a long recording in one piece.
A three-hour interview, a six-hour workshop, a twelve-hour stream. One file, up to 12 hours and 5 GB, comes back as one transcript. You never cut it into parts, and the first one is free at any length — so you can prove it on your longest recording before you pay anything.
Why long files land here
Built for the recording that is too long for everything else.
Twelve hours, one upload
The ceiling is 12 hours or 5 GB per file, whichever you hit first. An all-day workshop, a full stream, a morning and afternoon session recorded as one take — they go up as they were recorded. The box on this page takes the usual sizes; a multi-gigabyte recording continues on the upload page, up to 5 GB.
The splitting happens on our side
A long recording is split before processing so nothing chokes on its length, and it is put back together before you see it. You do not open an audio editor, you do not upload parts one through six, and you do not stitch six transcripts into one document afterwards.
Prove it on the long one, free
Your first transcript is free at any length — no card, no account needed to start. That is the point of it: if you have a six-hour recording and no way of knowing whether a tool will survive it, run that one first and read the whole thing before you decide.
Twelve hours you can navigate
Long text is only useful if you can find things in it. Each recording comes back with a summary, the takeaways, chapters, key quotes with the timestamp each one sits at, and a chat over the transcript. Everything lands in a Library that is searchable across recordings, and exports as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, or JSON.
The usual problem
What a long recording normally costs you in effort.
✗ Tools with a ceiling
Most transcription tools were built for the half-hour meeting. Past a certain length you stop being a user and start being a file-handling department.
- A length cap you passed hours ago
- An upload limit smaller than the file
- Instructions that start with “split your recording”
- Six parts to upload, six transcripts to stitch
- Timestamps that restart at zero in every part
- Paying up front to find out whether it survives
✓ One upload, one transcript
You hand over the recording as it came off the device and get one continuous document back, with one timeline running through it.
- One file up to 12 hours or 5 GB
- Splitting happens before processing, not in your file manager
- One document, one clock — nothing to stitch
- First transcript free at any length, no card
- 99 languages, detected automatically
- TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, JSON from the same run
Sample output
Hour eleven still reads as the same document.
Illustrative output, not a real recording. A long file comes back as one continuous transcript with the clock running from the start of the recording to the end — not as a folder of parts each beginning at 00:00:00.
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 recordings, answered.
What is the longest recording I can transcribe?
One file can be up to 12 hours long and up to 5 GB, whichever limit you reach first. A recording long enough to need splitting is split before processing and reassembled before you read it, so a 12-hour file is one upload and one transcript. If your recording is longer than 12 hours, transcribe it as two files.
Do I have to split a 3-hour or 6-hour file before uploading?
No. Splitting is done on our side, as part of processing, and you never see it. You upload the recording exactly as it came off the recorder, phone, or stream, and you get back a single document with one timeline running through it.
Is a long recording really free the first time?
Yes. Your first transcript is free at any length — there is no shorter ceiling on the free one, and no card is required to start. This is the honest way to test a long file: run the six-hour recording first, read the whole transcript, and then decide.
How long does a 5-hour recording take to transcribe?
Processing usually runs at roughly two minutes of waiting per hour of audio, so a five-hour recording is usually done in about ten minutes and a three-hour interview in well under ten. Those are measured averages rather than guarantees — a difficult recording can take longer. You do not have to keep the page open.
What does it cost after the free one?
Your second transcript is $0.99, once per email address. After that there are one-time minute packs starting at $8 with no subscription, and the minutes do not expire. If you transcribe long recordings constantly, Workspace is $19 a month with unlimited transcription on the web app.
My recording is bigger than 5 GB. What can I do?
That is almost always uncompressed audio — hours of WAV grow very fast. Save the same recording as MP3 or M4A and it will usually drop well under the limit with no meaningful loss for transcription. If it is a video file, upload the audio track instead of the video.
Can I transcribe a long recording that is not in English?
Yes. 99 languages are supported and the language is detected automatically, so there is nothing to choose before you upload. This holds for long files the same as short ones.
Can I send a long recording without uploading it from my computer?
Yes — paste the link to any public audio or video, import from Google Drive (including a whole folder at once), or record straight in the browser. There is also an API with keys if you want to submit recordings programmatically.
Can it transcribe while the recording is still going?
No. This is for recordings that have already finished — there is no live or real-time transcription. Stop the recording, upload the file, and the transcript comes back in minutes.
What happens to a long recording after it is transcribed?
It lands in your Library alongside everything else you have transcribed, searchable, with its summary, chapters, and quotes attached. You can export the transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, or JSON at any time. Your recordings and transcripts are never used to train AI.
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