Transcribe a lecture or a seminar
Upload the recording of the lecture and get the text with a start and an end time on every segment, subtitles in SRT or VTT for the video and a clean document for the notes. Free is $0 with 3 files a day; Pro is $10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year).
| What goes in | What comes out | What the price covers |
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| What goes in | The audio of one lecture or seminar: the file from the recording device, the room microphone or the webinar platform | One file: up to 64 MB and 120 minutes (two hours) on every plan, including Team |
| What comes out | The text, and a start and an end time on every segment; speaker labels when you ask for them | On every plan, including the free one |
| Export | TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX | DOCX is a Pro feature; the other five are on every plan |
| Price and limits | Free: $0, 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card and no trial clock | Pro: $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month |
| Where it runs | Our own transcription engine, a model profile tuned for Russian and for the Russian-English mix | A Russian or mixed file is processed on our own infrastructure outside the United States; a file that is entirely in English may go to a cloud speech provider in the United States when that fallback is enabled on the server |
How to do it in four steps
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Record the room, not the applause
A lecture is usually one voice, and the room microphone hears the audience too. Put the microphone where the speaker is, and check the first minute before you rely on it: a file with clipping or noise in it cannot be fixed by the engine.
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Upload the file
Drop it into the widget on this page, or send it from your own code with POST /v1/transcripts. One file is up to 64 MB and 120 minutes.
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Read it with timecodes, or let the subtitles be built
Every segment carries its start and end time. Export SRT or VTT and the subtitles are already timed for the recording; export DOCX or Markdown and you have the text for the notes.
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Split it if the lecture runs longer than two hours
The limit is 120 minutes per file. Split the recording, transcribe the parts, and add the offset of each part to its timecodes before you merge them — there is a guide on the page how to transcribe a long recording.
What a lecture recording gives you and what it costs
| What you get | What it is | What the price covers |
|---|---|---|
| The text of the lecture | Every line with its start and end time | On every plan, including the free one |
| Subtitles for the video | SRT or VTT with the same timecodes | On every plan; the file itself is not changed |
| Notes for the students | DOCX or Markdown | DOCX is a Pro feature |
| A searchable record | CSV with one row per segment | On every plan |
| The room, not only the speaker | The audience is in the file too | More minutes are needed, and the quality is the recording's, not the engine's |
What it costs against the 1,500-minute allowance
| Your workload | Minutes a month | Where it lands |
|---|---|---|
| 4 lectures of 45 minutes | 180 | 12% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 8 lectures of 60 minutes | 480 | 32% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 16 lectures of 90 minutes | 1,440 | 96% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 20 lectures of 90 minutes | 1,800 | over the allowance by 300 minutes: the API answers with a clear error and the account stays open |
Put a file on the page and read the first lines.
The widget below is the same one as on the home page: file → transcript with timecodes and speakers → export. The transcript is saved to your account.
Drop an audio or video file
or — mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, up to 64 MB and two hours
Transcription runs under your account: sign in or create a free account.
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Questions this page answers.
How long can a lecture be?
Up to 120 minutes and 64 MB per file. A longer lecture has to be split into parts; the guide how to transcribe a long recording shows how, and how to fix the timecodes of the parts.
Can I get subtitles for the recording?
Yes. SRT and VTT are two of the six export formats, and the start and end time of every segment is written into them, so the subtitles line up with the audio.
The audience is louder than the speaker. Is that a problem?
It is a limit of the recording, not of the engine. A microphone placed near the speaker gives a far better file than one in the middle of the room.
Do I need to name the speaker?
No. With a single voice the speaker separation is not needed; switch it off and the text stays the same.
How much does it cost?
Free is $0 with 3 files a day and up to 30 minutes per file, and no card is needed. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month.
Can the service summarise the lecture?
Yes, through the MCP server: summarize_transcript returns a summary and the key points of the transcript you send it, and extract_actions returns the tasks that were mentioned.
Related pages.
When the lecture does not fit 120 minutes.
A recorded lecture as a video file: the size limit comes first.
The same structure for a published episode: notes, chapters, quotes.
Every plan, every limit, in one table.
Upload, edit, export and keep the history of every transcript.
The live answer base: 99 questions about the price, the limits, the languages, the exports, the privacy and the API, each with the page of this site it comes from.
Mark Vesyoly, Founder.
Every number on this page comes from the service contract, the pricing page or our own measurements. The author of the page and the publisher of the site are the same person. Questions and corrections: support@transcrib.si.