Pay per file. No subscription.

Turn audio into text.

Transcribe interviews, meetings, lectures and podcasts. Upload audio or video, review the text alongside your recording, and download the transcript.

Drop your audio or video here

MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WebM · up to 500 MB · 1 minute to 10 hours

$2.00 per hour · $2.00 minimum · no subscription

  • Editable speaker labels
  • Automatic language detection
  • Listen and edit in your browser
  • $2.00 minimum per file

English, Spanish, Norwegian, Japanese and more. Check supported languages

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See it before you pay

This is a real file, and this is what came back.

Press play. Real audio, unedited output, speaker labels worked out automatically. Click any line to jump the audio to it.

board_strategy_review.mp3

0:30 · 2 speakers · $2.00

Done
0:00 / 0:30

board_strategy_review.mp3 · 2 speakers · nothing on this transcript has been corrected by hand.

Read both transcripts

How it works

Three steps, no setup.

Nothing to configure and nothing to pick. Upload, pay for the hour you used, get back to work.

  1. Step 1

    Upload a file

    MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WebM or Opus — one file at a time. Phone voice memos and video recordings can be uploaded directly.

  2. Step 2

    We transcribe it

    Review the price, choose the spoken language or use auto-detect, and pay. An email arrives when the transcript is ready.

  3. Step 3

    Edit and export

    Rename “Speaker A” once and every block updates. Export as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX or PDF.

Pricing

$2.00 per hour of audio.

That is the whole price list. Nothing renews and nothing expires.

so it costs

$2.00

Try

Anything under an hour is the $2.00 minimum. There is no subscription.

  • Speaker labels, and TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and PDF exports, included
  • The same price in every language
  • No subscription, no seats, no credits that expire
  • $2.00 minimum per file, billed per minute above that
Start transcribing

Against a subscription

Twelve hours of audio in a year — one file a month — costs this much.

TranscribeCat$24
Otter Pro$204+$180 a year
Rev (Basic)$180+$156 a year
Descript Hobbyist$144+$120 a year

Each provider's published monthly rate as of 2026-05, × 12, against $2.00 × 12 hours here.

Transcribe less and the gap widens. Transcribe several hours every week and a subscription may well win.

Questions people ask first

The five that come up before a first upload.

Processing time depends on the recording length, language and current demand. The page updates as the job progresses, and an email arrives when the transcript is ready. You can leave it open or return later.

MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WebM and Opus. Phone recordings (M4A) and video files (MP4) work as they are — there is nothing to convert first.

$2.00 per hour of audio or video, billed per minute, with a $2.00 minimum per file. A 15-minute file and a 55-minute file both cost $2.00. A 90-minute file costs $3.00. There is no subscription and no monthly fee.

The card is authorized before processing, which may appear as a pending hold. If transcription fails, that hold is cancelled and no charge is captured. Your bank controls how soon the pending hold disappears.

Audio is kept for 90 days from your last sign-in by default. You choose the period on the upload you are paying for — anything from delete-immediately to 90 days — and that choice becomes the default for your next one. The transcript itself stays in your account until you delete it.

All nine questions, answered in full

Upload your first file.

Upload a recording and see the price before you pay. $2.00 per hour, $2.00 minimum per file. No subscription.

Start transcribing

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