Transcription without a time limit? Ten hours in one file.
If you are searching for transcription without a time limit, the honest number here is 10 hours per file. That is long enough for an all-day workshop, a full court day or an overnight stream in one upload, and it is processed in about 20 minutes. A recording that runs longer goes in as two files.
Why 10 hours
Most per-file time limits stop where long recordings start.
Caps measured in minutes
Free tiers and starter plans elsewhere often cap a file at a fixed number of minutes, which is fine for a meeting and useless for a seminar day. Here the per-file ceiling is ten hours, so a recording that runs from morning to evening is still one upload.
Ten hours, about twenty minutes
Work through the audio goes at roughly 2 minutes per hour. A public run of 9.31 hours took 1,033 seconds, and it is linked with its transcript on the long-files proof page.
Past ten hours
A 14-hour recording goes in as two files, cut at a break. Each comes back with its own timeline, and the chapters in each make it easy to read them in order. That is one extra upload for a day and a half of audio, not a dozen.
Upload the long one
Very long files are often large too. The box on this page takes up to 500 MB; the upload page takes up to 5 GB, and a link from YouTube, Drive, Twitch or Kick needs no upload at all. Stream VODs over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account.
Time limits
A thirty-minute cap turns one recording into a project.
✗ Short per-file caps
When a file can only be so many minutes long, a full-day recording becomes a dozen jobs and a merging problem.
- A day split into a dozen chunks
- Each chunk named and tracked by hand
- Sentences cut in half at each boundary
- Clocks that reset with every chunk
- Summaries of fragments instead of the day
- A merged document that still reads in parts
✓ Ten hours as one job
The day goes up as one file, and the brief and chapters describe the whole recording, not a fragment of it.
- 10 hours per file
- One clock from start to finish
- Chapters across the whole day
- Ready about 20 minutes after upload
- Two files only past 10 hours
- The free first 20 minutes to check it
Sample output
A full day of a training course, one clock.
These lines are illustrative and do not come from a real recording. A course recorded from nine to five returns as a single transcript with chapters for each module.
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
Length limits, answered.
Is there a time limit on transcription here?
Yes, 10 hours per file, together with a size limit of 5 GB. Nearly every meeting, lecture, interview or stream fits inside both. The ten-hour figure comes from the longest recordings we have completed reliably, so it is a number we can stand behind rather than a marketing figure.
How long does a 10-hour recording take to process?
About 20 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. You do not have to keep the page open while it runs. The longest public example, a run of 9.31 hours, finished in 1,033 seconds, and its transcript is linked from the proof page so you can check the timing yourself.
What does 10 hours cost?
Ten hours is 600 minutes, more than the 500 in the $6 pack, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the right buy. It leaves 1,400 minutes for later, and credits never expire.
What if my recording is longer than 10 hours?
Cut it into two files, ideally at a break or a change of session, and transcribe each one. Both land in your Library side by side. Name them part one and part two before uploading, and the chapters in each will tell you where the day picks up again.
Is the first part free?
First-time visitors get the first 20 minutes free. A longer recording is previewed, and a pack transcribes the remainder from where the preview ended. Twenty minutes is usually enough to judge whether the audio is clear and the language was picked up correctly before you commit to ten hours.
Which languages and exports are available, and who can hear it?
Any of 99 languages is identified automatically. Download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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