Paste every Drive link at once. One recording per link.
When recordings arrive as Google Drive links from other people, paste the whole list into Library → Paste links → A list of links, one link per line. Each link becomes its own recording, and a link pasted twice counts once.
247,995 minutes transcribed across 6,324 recordings · packs from $6, any length · ~2 min per hour of audio · 99+ languages · private, never used for training
- 247,995 mintranscribed across 6,324 recordings since April 2026, every field
- ~2 minper hour of audio, measured on production
- 99+languages, auto-detected
At a glance
- Field
- Drive share links
- Transcribed here
- 247,995 minutes across 6,324 recordings site-wide since April 2026 (measured 12 Oct 2026); this field is not tracked separately yet
- Turnaround
- About 2 minutes per hour of audio; most files finish in under a minute
- Input
- Files and whole folders from your Google Drive (Library → Add content → Google Drive), a public Google Drive file link, or any audio or video file; up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file
- Output
- A brief with chapters, the names, numbers and dates that were said, and the questions it answers; word timestamps and AI chat. Export TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX or JSON
- Languages
- 99+, with automatic detection
- Privacy
- Private servers, no third-party AI, never used for training, delete any time
- Price
- Packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire; the summary of any recording is free to read
- Support
- contact@whipscribe.com or the chat on every page
Quick answers
The five questions people ask before the first upload.
- What does WhipScribe do for shared Google Drive link recordings?
- When recordings arrive as Google Drive links from other people, paste the whole list into Library → Paste links → A list of links, one link per line. Each link becomes its own recording, and a link pasted twice counts once.
- How much does it cost?
- The summary of any recording is free to read; a pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. Credit packs: $6 = 500 min · $8 = 1,000 min · $12 = 2,000 min · $24 = 5,000 min; credits never expire and there is no seat fee. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark; 100 GB of storage included, then $3 per extra 100 GB a month).
- How long does a transcript take?
- A one-hour recording is usually ready in about two minutes; most files finish in under a minute. Files up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file.
- Is it private?
- Yes. Transcribed on our own servers; audio is never sent to a third-party AI service. Never used to train, fine-tune or evaluate any model. Delete a recording and its transcript at any time; account deletion removes every record tied to the email.
- Which languages and files does it accept?
- 99+ languages, detected automatically; the transcript stays in the recording's language. Input: any audio or video file (MP3, MP4, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, WEBM, MOV, GSM and more), a YouTube, podcast, RSS, Google Drive, Twitch or Kick link, or a microphone recording. Export: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON.
Built for Drive share links
What matters when transcribing shared Google Drive link recordings?
Built for links you did not create
Assignments, contest entries and recorded interview answers usually sit in someone else's Drive, so there is nothing to import from your own. A file shared as 'Anyone with the link' is fetched directly, with no Drive connection on your side and no account needed on theirs.
One link per line, one recording per link
Paste the list from an email thread, a form-response sheet or a chat export, one link per line. Each becomes its own recording in your Library, and a link that appears twice in the list is transcribed once, so a row copied twice from the sheet does not cost twice.
File links only, not folder links
Links to a single file work, in the /file/d/… form or the ?id= form. A link to a Drive folder is not fetched; ask for the file links instead. For a folder in your own Drive, use Library → Add content → Google Drive, which imports whole folders.
Private links tell you how to fix them
A file that is not shared fails as not shared, says nothing was charged and links three help pages: how to share a Drive file for transcription, how to transcribe one without making it public, and how to make it private again afterwards. The other links are separate recordings and are not affected.
How it works
How do I transcribe a shared Google Drive link recording?
Collect the links
Ask for each recording as a single Google Drive file shared as 'Anyone with the link'. Folder links are not fetched.
Paste the list
In the Library, Add content → Paste links → A list of links, one link per line. Each link becomes its own recording; a link pasted twice counts once.
Read each transcript
Every recording gets a transcript and the Intelligence brief. A private link comes back as not shared, with nothing charged and the steps to fix it.
Intelligence
What comes back from a shared Google Drive link recording?
Student presentation — the water cycle in a river delta
Brief overview
The student explains how seasonal flooding moves water and silt through the delta and why it matters for the farms built on it.
- Evaporation and rainfall over the catchment are set out at 00:40 with a hand-drawn diagram.
- Seasonal flooding is linked to fertile silt at 02:50.
- The talk closes at 05:30 on how dams upstream reduce that silt.
Questions this recording answers
- What is the main point of the presentation?
- Seasonal floods carry the silt that keeps delta farmland fertile.
- What risk does the student raise?
- Dams upstream trap silt, so less of it reaches the farms, from 05:30.
Chapters
- Introduction
- Evaporation and rainfall
- Flooding and silt
- Dams upstream and the farms
Names, numbers and dates
Example output, written to show the shape. Your own recording produces its own brief, in the language it was recorded in.
Questions
What else do people ask about shared Google Drive link transcription?
Which Google Drive links can be transcribed?
Links to a single file shared as 'Anyone with the link', in the /file/d/<id> or ?id=<id> form. Folder links are not fetched. A private file comes back as not shared, nothing is charged, and the message links the steps to share it.
Do the people sending the links need a WhipScribe account?
No. They only share the file as 'Anyone with the link'. You paste the links into your own Library and the recordings belong to your account; they can make the file private again once the transcript is done.
Can Claude or another assistant transcribe a list of Drive links?
Yes, through the WhipScribe MCP connector: transcribe_urls_batch takes up to 20 public links per call, and one failed link does not stop the rest. Setup is at /claude.
Paste the list. Get one transcript per link.
Packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire; the summary of any recording is free to read.