Transcribe Long Audio

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Send a multi-hour recording through as a background job and get a plain text transcript with duration back — up to 6 hours per file on Max.

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Step-by-step guide

How to Use Transcribe Long Audio

Start for free — no credit card, no software to install.

Upload the long recording
Bring in the full file rather than splitting it in advance, up to your plan's per-file ceiling.
Submit and leave the job running
The file processes as a background job — close the tab and come back rather than waiting on it live.
Check back for the finished transcript
Once the job completes, the plain text and duration are ready to copy or download.

Transcribe Long Audio

Features & Capabilities

Everything you need to create professional voiceovers — in one tool.

Asynchronous by design
Long files run as a queued background job, not a live wait — you can check back once it's done.
Per-plan duration ceilings
Pro allows up to 3 hours per file, Max up to 6 hours, for the longest single recordings.
A size ceiling and a concurrency limit
There's a per-request size limit and a cap on how many jobs run at once per plan, so extremely large files may need splitting.
Plain transcript, no timing data
The finished result is text and a duration — nothing formatted as captions or timestamps.

Use cases

What Can You Create with Transcribe Long Audio?

From TikTok to podcasts — here's where creators use this tool most.

Transcribing a full-day recording session
Get an entire multi-hour session turned into text without breaking it into smaller clips yourself.
Processing archival audio in one pass
Run a long historical or archival recording through once instead of chopping it into segments.
Handling a long-form podcast or radio broadcast
Cover an extended episode or broadcast in a single upload rather than trimming it down first.
Batch-clearing a backlog of long files
Submit several long recordings and return once each background job has finished.

About this tool

Everything you need to know about Transcribe Long Audio

A multi-hour recording doesn't run in the browser tab you started it in — it's submitted as a background job, so a two-hour file typically finishes processing in a few minutes rather than making you wait live on a spinner. Length is capped by plan: up to 3 hours per file on Pro, and up to 6 hours on Max, which covers almost anything short of an all-day recording. Once the job completes you get a plain text transcript and the file's total duration back — no captions, no timestamps, nothing timed to sync elsewhere. There's also a size ceiling on any single upload and a limit on how many jobs run at once per plan, so an extremely large file may need splitting first.

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