Skip to main content

Podcast and transcript

FROM THE EPISODE FILE

Upload a podcast episode as MP3, M4A, or WAV. Scriora transcribes the whole episode into timed text.

Free account: 3 previews a week, each covering the first minute. A full transcript uses 1 credit (from 6¢), and files use 1 per 10 minutes, and failed runs are refunded.

Audio: MP3 or WAV up to 50 MB, M4A up to 25 MB. Video: MP4, MOV, or WebM up to 500 MB, read in your browser so only the audio is sent. Only upload recordings you have permission to transcribe.

Source
MP3 / M4A / WAV
Output
TXT / SRT / VTT
Cost
1 credit
field-notes-ep-intro.mp36 segments · 0:26

A podcast transcript from a real episode file

  1. 00:00

    Welcome back to Field Notes, the show about building small things on the internet. I'm Sam.

  2. 00:04

    And I'm Joe. Today we're talking about what happens to an episode after you hit publish.

  3. 00:09

    Right, most listeners skim. They want the one part where we talked about pricing,

  4. 00:13

    not 40 minutes of scrubbing. Which is why we started posting a transcript with every episode.

  5. 00:18

    It takes a few minutes and it doubles as our show notes. And the timestamps let people jump

  6. 00:23

    straight to the part they care about. Let's get into it.

Real output from a 26-second two-host intro we recorded. Each turn gets its own timed line, ready to paste into show notes.

How to transcribe a podcast

  1. Take 1

    Export the episode

    Download the MP3 from your podcast host or export it from your editor.

  2. Take 2

    Upload and transcribe

    Speech becomes timed text segments for the whole file.

  3. Take 3

    Use the transcript

    Paste TXT into show notes, or take SRT and WebVTT for video clips.

Podcast transcript files

Plain text for show notes, plus timed files for clips and captions.

  • .txt

    Plain text

  • .srt

    SubRip subtitles

  • .vtt

    WebVTT captions

Two podcast hosts recording an episode at a table with microphones, the kind of conversation that becomes a podcast and transcript

Why podcasters publish a transcript

Listeners skim. A transcript lets them find the part they came for, and it gives search engines the words of the episode, which the audio alone does not.

It also saves time after recording: pull quotes for social posts, draft show notes, and caption the video version from the same file.

Podcast Transcript is a file away.

Every account gets 3 free previews a week. Failed runs are refunded.

Try it now