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 to show notes in Russian
Recording with timecodes 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.
What the Audacity stores is what the engine needs. The Russian speech becomes the show notes in the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into show notes
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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 widget takes the file of the Recording with timecodes as it is and marks the speech as Russian, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.
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Ask the written instruction for the show notes
The transcript of the Recording with timecodes goes to the instruction that is written for the show notes, and the sections of the answer are Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes.
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Name the language of the speech
The engine reads 99+ languages; this Recording with timecodes is in Russian, so the language of the widget is set to Russian for the show notes.
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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
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
What the recording does not give you
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 Audacity is only the place where the recording waits; the text and the show notes are made by the engine, in Russian.
Tips
The sections of the show notes 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.
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 show notes
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 show notes 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 Russian speech of the Recording with timecodes and writes the show notes from that text.
What comes back after the Russian Recording with timecodes is read?
the show notes in the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes, with the time of every line of the recording of the Recording with timecodes.
What do I get without a card?
3 files a day of up to 30 minutes every day, and the export of the text in the formats of the service, so the show notes comes back in every one of them.
Do I need an account for the Recording with timecodes?
The file of the Recording with timecodes and the widget are enough: the engine reads the Russian speech and writes the show notes.
Related pages
- The same task on udemy lecture 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.
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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