Upload uncompressed WAV recordings — field interviews, studio sessions, archival transfers — and get accurate, speaker-labeled text.
WAV is the format of people who care about their recordings: field recorders from Zoom and Tascam default to it, studios master in it, and archives digitize old tape into it. It is also the format many transcription tools quietly punish — small upload caps that a single uncompressed hour blows past, or instructions to "please convert to MP3", which defeats the point of having recorded lossless in the first place.
TranscribeBee takes the WAV directly. Files up to 500 MB upload as-is — that covers several hours of mono field recording or about 45 minutes of CD-quality stereo. Recorded something longer? Convert it to FLAC, which is lossless and equally supported: the audio is bit-identical, the file is roughly half the size, and the transcript comes out the same.
Pricing is the part WAV users should check everywhere: it is by audio duration, never by file size. A 400 MB WAV and a 40 MB MP3 of the same interview cost exactly the same $2 per hour here. Your reward for recording properly is better transcription accuracy — clean, full-bandwidth audio is the easiest input the model ever gets — not a bigger bill.
Uncompressed audio gives the model the cleanest possible input. The fidelity you recorded for translates directly into a more accurate transcript.
Upload the WAV your recorder or DAW produced. If a file exceeds 500 MB, a lossless FLAC conversion keeps every bit and halves the size.
A WAV is ten times the size of the same audio as MP3 — and costs exactly the same to transcribe. $2 per audio hour, regardless of format.
Files up to 500 MB upload directly — several hours of mono recording or roughly 45 minutes of 16-bit stereo. For longer uncompressed sessions, convert to FLAC: it is lossless, supported here, and about half the size, so the transcript is identical.
No, and you shouldn’t. MP3 conversion discards audio detail; the WAV you already have is the best input the transcription model can get. Upload it as-is.
No. Pricing is $2 per audio hour based on the recording’s duration. File size never affects the price — uncompressed audio costs the same as compressed.
Yes. Handheld and field recorder WAV files — mono or stereo, including outdoor recordings with ambient noise — are exactly what this handles. Multiple voices come back separated and labeled by speaker.
Yes. Archival transfers with tape hiss and uneven levels transcribe well; clear speech matters more than a pristine noise floor. Timestamps make it easy to cross-reference the transcript against the original recording.
$2 per hour. No subscription. Files are auto-deleted after processing.