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 2026-09-25. Aggregates only; no recording, transcript or account is identifiable. Method on how we test.
| Recordings transcribed | 1,394 |
|---|---|
| Audio hours | 562 |
| Median recording | 5.0 minutes |
| One in ten longer than | 71 minutes |
| Longest recording | 7.7 hours |
| Turnaround, one hour of audio (median) | 4.1 minutes |
| Turnaround, one hour of audio (nine in ten within) | 20.1 minutes |
| Languages detected | 56 |
| Recordings from people not signed in | 64 % |
Languages
Detected by the engine, not declared by the person. Codes are ISO 639-1.
| Language | Recordings |
|---|---|
| en | 740 |
| tl | 58 |
| es | 44 |
| hi | 35 |
| ru | 31 |
| fr | 29 |
| pt | 27 |
| ja | 26 |
| zh | 24 |
| de | 19 |
File types people send
| Extension | Recordings |
|---|---|
| .mp3 | 257 |
| .wav | 232 |
| .mp4 | 188 |
| .m4a | 170 |
| .webm | 65 |
| .flac | 46 |
| .ogg | 15 |
| .mov | 9 |
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 | 860 |
| url | 380 |
| api | 121 |
| recording | 33 |
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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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