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PCM audio file to file in English

PCM audio file to file in English: 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. The engine reads 99+ languages.

3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short

The PCM audio file becomes the minutes: the engine reads the English speech and the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item are written from the transcript. The free plan gives 3 files a day of up to 30 minutes.

How it works

How to get the file and turn it into file

  1. 1

    Choose the import

    The WAV and AIFF files, including all PCM variants, are imported into Audacity with the standard uncompressed files importer

  2. 2

    Hand the file over

    The file of the PCM audio file is sent as an attachment; the language of the speech is English, and the minutes comes back in the export of the service.

  3. 3

    Turn the text into the minutes

    The ready instruction reads the transcript of the PCM audio file as the person who keeps the record, and the minutes comes in the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item.

  4. 4

    Mark the language of the speech

    The recording of the PCM audio file is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the minutes follows.

  5. 5

    Check the file before the upload

    The VoiceTracer of Philips records the PCM (WAV) format at 22 kHz/16 bit, 44.1 kHz/16 bit and 48 kHz/16 bit

The result

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.

The facts

What PCM keeps, and what it says about it

Where the file is

Audacity imports the WAV and AIFF files, including all PCM variants, and a raw PCM file without a standard header is imported with File > Import > Raw Data.

What the file is

The PCM codec is used by OBS Studio together with the MP4, MOV and MKV containers, as the uncompressed audio of the table.

What can go wrong

The VoiceTracer of Philips records in the PCM (WAV) format, a stereo recording without compression.

What the platform says

LPCM stands in the list of the audio formats of the VLC player, next to AMR (3GPP) and ADPCM.

What the platform says

In the table of the codecs and the containers of OBS Studio the PCM row names the MP4, MOV and MKV containers.

Length of one file

up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro

Free plan

$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card

Pro plan

$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month

The case

What the recording does not give you

The PCM codec is used by OBS Studio together with the MP4, MOV and MKV containers, as the uncompressed audio of the table. The PCM audio file is read by the engine in English, and the minutes is written from the text, not from a guess.

Tips

  • A name that was never said in the PCM audio file stays out of the minutes.

  • Mark the language of the speech of the PCM audio file.

  • A file over 30 minutes has to be cut into parts; the Pro plan takes a recording of any length.

FAQ

Questions about PCM audio file and file

Which problems can come with the PCM audio file?

The VoiceTracer of Philips records in the PCM (WAV) format, a stereo recording without compression. The engine does not change the file of the PCM audio file; it reads it as it is and writes the minutes.

What does the PCM keep for the PCM audio file?

A WAV file from a portable recorder with a proprietary compressed audio should be opened with the FFmpeg library, not as raw data. The file of the PCM audio file is the input of the engine, and the minutes is written from it.

What comes back after the English PCM audio file is read?

the minutes in the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item, with the time of every line of the recording of the PCM audio file.

How long may the file be, and how much is free?

One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, and the free plan gives 3 files a day for the minutes.

Where does the file of the PCM audio file wait?

On the PCM. The facts of the table above name the place where the file of the PCM audio file is kept and the way it comes off.

Related pages

The same task on pcm raw audio to text video to blog post ru

The same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.

Meeting minutes ready to file

The page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.

Transcribe audio to text

What the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.

Sources

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Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute

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