A reel of your own account is saved on the device, and a saved draft is not available from another device.
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Instagram Reels to show notes in Russian
Instagram Reels to show notes in Russian: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
The file of the Instagram Reels is the input of this page, and the Instagram keeps it, Transcribsi reads the Russian speech and writes the show notes in the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes. One file may be up to 30 minutes.
How to get the file and turn it into show notes
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Save it to the phone
Swipe up to edit, swipe left to right and press Save at the bottom: the reel goes to the camera roll of the phone
- 2
Send the recording to the bot
The engine takes the Instagram Reels from the widget of the page; the speech is in Russian, and the show notes comes back with the timecodes.
- 3
Turn the text into the show notes
The instruction of the show notes is written for this task already: it reads the text of the Instagram Reels and asks for Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes, and it keeps every claim to the transcript.
- 4
Set the language of the speech
The speech of the Instagram Reels is Russian, one of the 99+ languages the engine reads, and the widget is left on Russian while the show notes is written.
- 5
Check the file before the upload
Downloading a reel does not save the music that was added from the music library of Instagram
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What Instagram keeps, and what it says about it
Downloading a reel does not save the music that was added from the music library of Instagram.
Whether a reel can be downloaded depends on the settings of the author of it.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
The file of the Instagram Reels is what the Instagram keeps. A reel of your own account is saved on the device, and a saved draft is not available from another device. The engine reads the Russian speech, and the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes come out of it.
Tips
A name that was never said in the Instagram Reels stays out of the show notes.
Mark the language of the speech of the Instagram Reels.
Rename the file of the Instagram Reels before you send it.
Whether a reel can be downloaded depends on the settings of the author of it.
Questions about Instagram Reels and show notes
Which problems can come with the Instagram Reels?
A reel of your own account is saved on the device, and a saved draft is not available from another device. The engine does not change the file of the Instagram Reels; it reads it as it is and writes the show notes.
What does the Instagram say about the Instagram Reels?
Whether a reel can be downloaded depends on the settings of the author of it. The engine reads the Russian speech of the Instagram Reels and writes the show notes from that text.
Who reads the show notes after the Instagram Reels is sent?
the producer of the episode. The transcript of the Instagram Reels is read first, and the show notes comes out of it in the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes.
Is there a limit to the length of the Instagram Reels?
One file of the Instagram Reels may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Instagram Reels?
Bring the file of the Instagram Reels to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the show notes with the time of every line.
Related pages
- The same task on loom video to text customer call to ticket enThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Podcast episode to show notesThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
- Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
- Instagram Reels to textWhere Instagram keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
Sources
- HInstagram: save and edit drafts of your reel (read 2026-10-24)help.instagram.com · checked
- HInstagram: who can download your reels (read 2026-10-24)help.instagram.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps