A Label Track is an additional track of the project: the labels in it mark points or regions of the audio tracks, and the label track itself holds no audio.
recording with timecodes
Recording with timecodes to quotes with timestamps in English
Recording with timecodes to quotes with timestamps 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.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
What the Audacity stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into quotes with timestamps
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Take the file out
The recording is exported at once to WAV or AIFF as a safety copy, and that file is what goes to the service
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Send the file to the engine
The widget takes the file of the Recording with timecodes as it is and marks the speech as English, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.
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Ask the task for the list of quotations
The instruction of the list of quotations is written for this task already: it reads the text of the Recording with timecodes and asks for Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes, and it keeps every claim to the transcript.
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Mark the language of the speech
The recording of the Recording with timecodes is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the list of quotations follows.
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Check the file before the upload
Audacity labels a point, a single moment of the audio, or a region, a span with a start and an end time; a point label is a region label with the same start and the same end
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 Audacity keeps, and what it says about it
The Time Toolbar is read-only and shows the current position of the play head or of the record head, and while the recording runs it follows the record head.
The recording of Audacity is taken from the sound input of the computer or from a mixer, and the source is chosen in the Audio Setup Toolbar or in the Audio Settings Preferences.
Audacity labels a point, a single moment of the audio, or a region, a span with a start and an end time; a point label is a region label with the same start and the same end.
The labels are imported and exported as text label files, and the text of a label can be kept for annotation or for transcription.
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 recording of Audacity is taken from the sound input of the computer or from a mixer, and the source is chosen in the Audio Setup Toolbar or in the Audio Settings Preferences. The English speech of the Recording with timecodes is read first, and the list of quotations is what the editor of the interview gets out of the transcript.
Tips
The sections of the list of quotations are the same for every recording.
The language of the widget is the language of the Recording with timecodes.
The file of the Recording with timecodes stays on your own disk.
The Time Toolbar is read-only, so the audio position cannot be reset with it: the Selection Toolbar is needed for that.
Questions about Recording with timecodes and quotes with timestamps
What does the Audacity say about the Recording with timecodes?
A Label Track is an additional track of the project: the labels in it mark points or regions of the audio tracks, and the label track itself holds no audio. The engine reads the English speech of the Recording with timecodes and writes the list of quotations from that text.
Which problems can come with the Recording with timecodes?
A very large number of labels in one project, hundreds or thousands, can make Audacity noticeably sluggish. The engine does not change the file of the Recording with timecodes; it reads it as it is and writes the list of quotations.
How is the list of quotations built from the Recording with timecodes?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; every line comes from the transcript of the Recording with timecodes.
Is there a limit to the length of the Recording with timecodes?
One file of the Recording with timecodes may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Recording with timecodes?
Bring the file of the Recording with timecodes to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the list of quotations with the time of every line.
Related pages
- The same task on timecoded recording to text meeting action items ruThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Interview to quotes with timestampsThe 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.
Sources
- MAudacity manual: Label Tracks (read 2026-10-25)manual.audacityteam.org · checked
- MAudacity manual: Time Toolbar (read 2026-10-25)manual.audacityteam.org · checked
- MAudacity manual: Recording (read 2026-10-25)manual.audacityteam.org · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps