Audio, not words
The meter counts the length of the audio you transcribe, not the number of words it returns and not the number of files. A 40-minute recording is 40 minutes, however little was said in it.
One price, no quote
What transcription costs here
One subscription at $8.99 a month, with 800 transcription minutes inside it. Nothing is quoted per recording and nothing is billed after the fact. This page shows how the minutes are counted, what a real working month adds up to, and what the price does not cover.
How the minutes are counted
Standard accuracy counts once
In the ordinary mode every audio minute takes one minute off the allowance. The 800 monthly minutes are a little over 13 hours of audio.
Best accuracy and speakers count twice
Automatic speaker separation and best accuracy cost twice as much at the provider, so they draw twice from the same allowance — about 400 minutes of audio instead of 800. The app shows you that before you spend it, not after.
About 90 minutes in one recording
That is a limit on a single file, not on your month: longer audio is split and re-joined. Unused minutes do not roll over into the next month.
What a real month adds up to
A student
Eight 90-minute lectures is 720 minutes of audio. At standard accuracy that fits inside the month. With speaker separation it doubles — which is why a single-lecturer recording is the case for leaving separation off and turning it on for the seminar instead.
A researcher
Twelve 45-minute interviews is 540 minutes of audio. An interview is exactly where speaker separation earns its keep, and at twice the rate those 540 minutes count as 1,080 — past the month. Splitting them over two months, or separating speakers only on the interviews you will quote, brings it back inside.
A lawyer preparing a file
One two-hour recording is 120 minutes of audio, about 240 with speakers separated. Either way that is under a third of the month, so the question here was never the price — it is what may be filed, and that is a different page.
Why this is not priced per minute
Human transcription services quote per minute of recording, and that is the honest way to price them: a person sits behind every minute. The figure moves with audio quality, the number of speakers, turnaround and language, which is why it arrives as a quote rather than a number on a page.
This is the other model. The price is known in advance, it is the same for every recording, and the only variable is how many minutes came off the allowance. That is the better deal when you transcribe a lot and want the cost settled beforehand. It is the worse deal when what you need is one finished, proofread transcript somebody is accountable for — which we do not sell.
So the comparison is not cheap against expensive. It is a draft you check against a document someone stands behind. For most day-to-day work the first is enough. When the document has to hold up in front of someone — in a filing, in print, in court — the second is what the job actually needs.
What the price does not cover
It does not include translation: the transcript stays in the language that was spoken. It does not include a bot that joins a live meeting. It does not include summaries, findings or advice about what was said. It does not include a certified or sworn transcript for an official filing. And it does not promise perfect words — noise, crosstalk, names and numbers need checking against the audio.
What it does include: no per-recording charge, no export fee, and the ability to copy or download any transcript at any point, including after you cancel.
Try it before you pay
Eligible new customers get 7 days free with a card, and a one-time 120-minute transcription allowance — about 60 minutes of audio with automatic speaker separation. A reminder goes out 3 days before the trial ends. After that it is $8.99 per month, charged in US dollars through Polar. Returning customers are charged immediately and are not offered a second free week.
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