The H1 writes WAV or MP3 to a microSD card, and both upload here as they are. Copy the file off the card, drop it in, and the words come back with every one of them timed. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page, which allows 10 hours or 5 GB. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript · packs from $4 for 500 minutes.
First, the obvious confusion
Two unrelated things share a name, and only one of them is a file.
This page is about the Zoom H1 and H1n: the small handheld stereo recorder that writes to a microSD card. It has nothing to do with Zoom the video meeting service.
The difference matters at the box above. A link to a Zoom meeting cannot be pasted in — those links are refused, as Spotify, Podbean and Kick VOD links are. An H1 recording is not a link at all: it is a WAV or MP3 file on a memory card, and it uploads like any other file.
How it works
Three steps, and one decision about format.
Take the microSD card out and read it on a computer. The H1 files recordings in numbered folders — STEREO and FOLDER01 — with names like ZOOM0001.WAV.
The H1 writes WAV up to 24-bit/96 kHz, or MP3. MP3 at 320 kbps is about 2.4 MB a minute, so an hour is roughly 145 MB and fits the box on this page comfortably.
Drop it in, read the transcript with every word timed, and export TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, MD or JSON.
Sizes and settings
The H1 can produce a file too large for the box on this page in well under an hour.
About 10 MB a minute, so an hour comes to around 635 MB — past the 500 MB the box takes, and one for the upload page.
Around 2 GB an hour, so the 5 GB per-file ceiling arrives at roughly two and a half hours.
If the recording exists to be transcribed and quoted rather than mastered, the H1's highest MP3 bitrate keeps an afternoon inside a few hundred megabytes.
Text with every word timed, turns marked in the transcript view, and six exports. Only JSON carries the speaker into the downloaded file.
Pricing
A pack from $4 opens the full transcript. After that, one-time packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes and $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
A 90-minute interview is $0.72 on the $8 pack. You are charged for the length of the recording, not the size of the file, so WAV and MP3 of the same take cost the same.
FAQ
No. It is about the Zoom H1, a handheld audio recorder. Zoom meeting links cannot be pasted into the box; an H1 recording is a WAV or MP3 file and uploads like any other file.
Take the microSD card out and read it on a computer, or connect the recorder over USB. Recordings sit in numbered folders.
No. WAV uploads as it is, and so does MP3. The only thing to watch is size, because WAV from a handheld recorder is large.
The box accepts files up to 500 MB and an hour of stereo WAV is usually more. Use the upload page, which allows up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
WAV if the audio will be edited or published. MP3 at the highest bitrate if the recording exists to be transcribed, since it stays small enough to upload from here.
The transcript view marks turns with numbered speaker labels. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT download without them; JSON is the export that keeps the speaker of each segment.
A pack from $4 opens the full transcript. After that, packs are $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 or $24 for 5,000, and credits never expire.
Instant preview, no signup. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript.