Recording with timecodes to quotes with timestamps in Russian
Recording with timecodes to quotes with timestamps 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.
What the Audacity stores is what the engine needs. The Russian 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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Mark the pieces
A Label Track is added to the project, and the labels mark the points and the regions of the audio, so every piece of the talk gets its own start and its own end
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Send the file to the engine
The Recording with timecodes goes to the service through the upload widget; the speech is Russian, and the list of quotations comes back into the chat.
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Ask for the list of quotations
The instruction that is set for this task goes through the transcript of the Recording with timecodes and writes the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; nothing is added that was not said.
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Mark the language of the speech
The engine reads 99+ languages; the speech of this Recording with timecodes is in Russian, and the widget carries that setting for the list of quotations.
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Check the file before the upload
The labels are imported and exported as text label files, and the text of a label can be kept for annotation or for transcription
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
- Where the file is
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.
- What the file is
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.
- What can go wrong
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.
- What the platform says
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 the platform says
The labels are imported and exported as text label files, and the text of a label can be kept for annotation or for transcription.
- 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
What the recording does not give you
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 Recording with timecodes from the Audacity is only the input: the engine reads the Russian speech and writes the list of quotations out of the transcript.
Tips
The sections of the list of quotations are the same for every recording.
A recording of the Recording with timecodes in Russian is read as Russian.
The file of the Recording with timecodes stays on your own disk.
A very large number of labels in one project, hundreds or thousands, can make Audacity noticeably sluggish.
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 Russian 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.
Who reads the list of quotations after the Recording with timecodes is sent?
the editor of the interview. The transcript of the Recording with timecodes is read first, and the list of quotations comes out of it in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes.
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 minutes enThe 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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