WAV is what you get when nothing has been thrown away: a field recorder, an interview rig with two lapel mics, a bounce out of a DAW. It is also the heaviest thing you will ever upload for its length, so this page is largely about size. Nothing to pay for the first transcript, readable whole at any length · after that, 1,000 minutes for $8.
How it works
The master stays put. Only a copy of the sound travels.
Drop the WAV in above, or bounce a compressed copy if the take is enormous. Past 500 MB, use the upload page.
Each line is timed against the take, so a doubtful passage is one click from being heard again. Corrections you save are kept.
DOCX downloads with or without times against each passage. The same transcript also gives TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON and Markdown.
About WAV
Uncompressed audio is lovely to edit and awkward to upload.
Field recorders, two-mic interview rigs, USB microphones and DAW bounces write WAV, because it is the format that discards nothing.
CD-rate stereo is about 10 MB a minute, near enough 600 MB an hour. A 24-bit 48 kHz take is closer to 1 GB an hour, putting the ceiling at roughly five hours.
Past the ceiling, bounce a mono MP3 or FLAC copy and send that. The words are identical and you keep the master for editing.
An interview where each person had a lapel mic transcribes as one conversation. Turns are marked in the transcript view; the Word download reads as continuous prose.
| WAV settings | Per minute | One hour | 5 GB reaches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16-bit 44.1 kHz mono | ~5 MB | ~300 MB | about 16 hours |
| 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo | ~10 MB | ~600 MB | about 8 hours |
| 24-bit 48 kHz stereo | ~16.5 MB | ~1 GB | about 5 hours |
The ten-hour length cap applies as well, so whichever limit arrives first is the one that stops you.
Who works this way
People who chose WAV usually need the words as carefully as the sound.
The cleanest possible input, and a Word file to code, quote and annotate afterwards.
Long sessions become documents a reader can search, while the master file is never touched again.
Read before you edit: choosing the strongest passage from a page beats scrubbing a waveform.
Recorders used in the field write WAV. A timestamped document is easy to point back at.
Pricing
A 900 MB WAV and a 40 MB MP3 of the same take cost the same, because credit is spent per minute. A first transcript is free, whole, for anything at any length.
A 90-minute interview is $0.72 of the $8 pack. Twelve of them, a whole fieldwork phase, is 1,080 minutes: about $6.50 at the $12 pack rate. Pricing has the rest.
FAQ
Upload the WAV here, wait for the transcript, then export DOCX with or without timestamps. The preview needs no signup.
Bounce a compressed copy, MP3 or FLAC, and upload that instead. The accuracy difference is not one you would notice, and the file is a fraction of the size.
Barely. Microphone placement and a quiet room matter far more than the file format. Upload whichever copy is easier to get here.
No. Those appear in the transcript view on this page. The DOCX download is the text of the conversation, and JSON is the only export carrying speaker information.
Ten hours, within 5 GB. At CD-rate stereo the size limit arrives near eight hours, so for long sessions send a compressed copy.
Yes, a genuine Word document rather than rich text renamed. Headings, comments and tracked changes behave as they should.
Yes, and you can leave them out. You choose at download time, and you may take the file both ways.
Upload it unchanged. Both channels read into one running conversation, which is what you want from an interview on two lapel mics.
Instant preview, no signup. Credit is spent per minute, whatever the file weighs.