Transcribe conference talks and panels

What you can publish from one recording

• ·A caption file (SRT or VTT) for the session video.
• ·A transcript on the session page, so the talk can be read, searched and found.
• ·Chapter timestamps for a long session (the free chapters checker tidies them).
• ·Quotes for social posts, taken from the draft and then checked against the audio.

From the stage to the page

1. Export each session as its own file. A full-day room recording should be cut by session first; a single file has a length limit set by your plan.
2. Upload it above. If the session is not in English, set the language.
3. Read the draft against the speaker's name, the program and the slides. Speaker names, company names, product names and acronyms are what a transcript gets wrong.
4. For a panel, turn on speaker labels (up to eight, with a free account) and rename them from the program. Check the labels wherever two panelists overlap.
5. Export SRT or VTT for the video and plain text or Markdown for the page.

Rooms are hard audio

Recordings from a conference room carry echo, a speaker who walks away from the microphone, audience questions asked without a microphone, and applause. The feed from the sound desk is much cleaner than a camera microphone at the back, so ask the AV team for it before the event. Audience questions that were not picked up cleanly will be gaps in the text, and where it matters the speaker or the organizer should fill them in from memory or notes.

Accessibility and permission

Captions help attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing and anyone watching without sound. Machine captions are a draft and should be proofread before publication; we make no claim that they meet any accessibility standard or contract. Speakers should agree to the recording being published and to the transcript, and the transcript should say it is a transcript of what was said, not an edited article. Uploading sends the audio to our server; see the privacy page.

Which plan fits

Without an account you can try one file at a time, up to 15 minutes and 25 MB, 3 tries a day, with nothing to sign up for. Pro is $9.99 a month for 600 transcription minutes a month (10 hours of audio), with files up to 500 MB and 120 minutes each. Pro+ is $19.99 a month for 2,500 minutes a month, files up to 1 GB and 180 minutes each, and priority processing when the queue is busy. Paid plans are billed monthly in US dollars with PayPal and can be cancelled from your Billing page; transcripts you already made are not deleted when a plan ends.

Twenty 45-minute sessions are 900 minutes, which is more than Pro's 600 minutes in a month and inside Pro+'s 2,500. A 45-minute session fits inside any paid plan's per-file length (120 minutes on Pro, 180 on Pro+).