Recording with timecodes to flashcards for revision in English
Recording with timecodes to flashcards for revision 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.
What the Audacity stores is what the engine needs. The English speech becomes the revision deck in the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into flashcards for revision
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Read the time of the head
The Time Toolbar shows the position of the record head in the hh:mm:ss format, and the format of the display is changed with its context menu
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Upload the file
The Recording with timecodes goes to the service through the upload widget; the speech is English, and the revision deck comes back into the chat.
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Run the instruction of the revision deck
The instruction of the task asks for the revision deck and puts the answer about the Recording with timecodes into the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions; a claim that is not in the recording is not written.
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Mark the language of the speech
The speech of the Recording with timecodes is English, one of the 99+ languages the engine reads, and the widget is left on English while the revision deck is written.
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Check the file before the upload
Right after the recording it is strongly recommended to export it at once to WAV or AIFF as a safety copy, before the editing starts
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
The file of the Recording with timecodes is what the Audacity keeps. 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 engine reads the English speech, and the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions come out of it.
Tips
A name that was never said in the Recording with timecodes stays out of the revision deck.
Set the language of the Recording with timecodes before you send the file.
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.
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 flashcards for revision
What does the Audacity keep for 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 file of the Recording with timecodes is the input of the engine, and the revision deck is written from it.
What does the Audacity say about the Recording with timecodes?
A very large number of labels in one project, hundreds or thousands, can make Audacity noticeably sluggish. The engine reads the English speech of the Recording with timecodes and writes the revision deck from that text.
How is the revision deck built from the Recording with timecodes?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the revision deck in the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions; 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 revision deck with the time of every line.
Related pages
The same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
Lecture to flashcards for revisionThe 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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