Every word out of every video.
Drop a file or paste a link. A timestamped transcript comes back in a fraction of the runtime. Three free, no card.
- Timestamps included
- Runs on our own hardware
- Files up to six hours
Paste a link from
From a link to text, while you watch.
A real run on this site: a YouTube link goes in, the words appear while the engine listens. The waiting is shortened, nothing else is.
Built for speech.
Interviews, podcasts, lectures and meetings are what the engine is trained on and where it is strong.
Podcasts
A full episode back as searchable text, with the timestamps to cut from.
It is bad at music. The engine listens for speech, and that is where it is strong: interviews, podcasts, lectures, meetings. Sung vocals over a mix leave it almost nothing to hold on to, so a song can come back nearly empty. That is the model's limit, not something wrong with the file you sent.
Three engines
Choose the trade you actually want.
Speed and accuracy pull against each other, and which one matters depends on the recording. So the choice is yours per job, not ours once for everyone. These are measured runs on our own card, not projections.
Mercedes
default7min per hour of audio
The best trade of the three on almost any recording.
The full-size listener paired with a shortened writer, weighing five readings of every line before it picks one. This is what the site was built around, and what most people should be using.
Ferrari
min per hour of audio
Back in minutes, not tens of minutes.
Twice the word errors of Mercedes, mostly names and numbers.
Run one on Ferrari →Volvo
min per hour of audio
Fewest errors on noise, crosstalk and heavy accents.
A third longer, and no better than Mercedes on clean audio.
Run one on Volvo →On a deliberately poor recording — telephone bandwidth, hiss over the top — Ferrari made close to three times as many word errors as Volvo, and Mercedes about a quarter more. On a clean one, Mercedes and Volvo returned the same words. Every mode costs the same. The plan you are on buys hours, not quality, so a free transcript on Volvo is the same Volvo a paying customer gets.
What comes back
Finished text, not raw output.
Timestamps down to the word
Every line carries a start and an end, and every word inside it does too.
- 00:00:07This program is brought to you by Stanford University.
- 00:00:20I am honored to be with you today for your commencement
- 00:00:27from one of the finest universities in the world.
- 00:00:35Truth be told, I never graduated from college.
Subtitles or plain text
Export the same transcript three ways, no reformatting.
99 languages, detected on their own
Paste something in Swedish, Turkish or Portuguese without telling us which.
Punctuation that reads like writing
Sentences, commas and question marks, so the text is usable as it lands.
Files up to six hours
Lectures, podcasts and full recorded meetings, up to three gigabytes. Long files are sent and transcribed in parts, so the queue can tell you which part it is on and a dropped connection only costs the part that was in the air.
The engine runs on our own machine.
Your audio is transcribed on hardware we own and run. It is not forwarded to a third party AI provider, and it is not kept to train anything. The file you upload is deleted after seven days unless you ask us to hold on to it. The transcript stays until you delete it.
Read the privacy page before you upload anything.
It is short, and it is written from the code that actually runs — every retention period on it is a real setting, not a promise made in the abstract. It says where your audio is processed, what is kept, for how long, and what we can never see. If any of it does not suit you, it is better to know that now than after you have uploaded an interview.
Read the privacy pagePricing
Cheaper than the going rate, on purpose.
Max
$9.99per month
or $99 a yearTwo months free
No monthly limit. Transcribe as many hours as you like, one file after another, for the same $9.99.
Light
$5.99per month
Ten hours of audio a month. Enough for a weekly podcast or a course. Unused hours do not roll over. If they run out, three shorter transcripts of up to half an hour each still go through before the month turns.
Free
Three transcripts
Full quality, full exports, no card. Then pick a plan or stop.
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