What people transcribe
Monthly production numbers from a transcription service: what gets sent, how long it is, how fast it comes back.
The last 30 days, in numbers
Refreshed 2026-10-28. Aggregates only; no recording, transcript or account is identifiable. Method on how we test.
| Recordings transcribed | 3,332 |
|---|---|
| Audio hours | 2,490 |
| Median recording | 12.1 minutes |
| One in ten longer than | 133 minutes |
| Longest recording | 23.2 hours |
| Turnaround, one hour of audio (median) | 3.1 minutes |
| Turnaround, one hour of audio (nine in ten within) | 17.5 minutes |
| Languages detected | 65 |
| Recordings from people not signed in | 52 % |
Languages
Detected by the engine, not declared by the person. Codes are ISO 639-1.
| Language | Recordings |
|---|---|
| en | 1,314 |
| fa | 322 |
| tl | 165 |
| es | 155 |
| hi | 88 |
| pt | 68 |
| fr | 61 |
| ru | 60 |
| zh | 53 |
| de | 44 |
File types people send
| Extension | Recordings |
|---|---|
| .m4a | 619 |
| .mp3 | 538 |
| .mp4 | 284 |
| .wav | 237 |
| .opus | 122 |
| .webm | 56 |
| .flac | 49 |
| .mov | 38 |
Where recordings come from
Uploads, links to the person's own cloud storage or a public feed, the browser recorder, and the API.
| Source | Recordings |
|---|---|
| upload | 1,876 |
| url | 1,233 |
| api | 195 |
| recording | 28 |
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Related measurements
How often the engine invents text, by language: hallucination study. Accuracy and speed on public test sets: benchmark. Method: how we test.
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