Who this is for
Independent podcasters, podcast networks, and brands running a show as part of their content programme.
How podcast transcription works
A podcast transcript does several jobs at once: it makes an episode accessible, it gives you source material for show notes and clips, and it makes spoken content findable by search engines that cannot listen to audio.
Conversational audio has its own difficulties. Hosts and guests talk over each other, names and references come up once and are never repeated, and remote recordings vary in quality between speakers. Human review is where those get resolved rather than guessed at.
Transcripts come back with speaker labels so you can pull a quote and attribute it correctly, and with optional timestamps so you can find the moment in the episode a passage came from.
What is included
- Human review of every file before delivery
- Speaker labels for hosts and guests
- Optional timestamps at $0.25 per minute
- Names and references verified rather than guessed
- Export to PDF or DOCX for show notes
- Multi-episode orders handled together
Pricing
4-Day Standard
Delivered within four business days
$1.75/min
48-Hour Rush
Delivered within two business days
$2.50/min
24-Hour Same Day
Delivered within one business day
$3.50/min
Recordings with heavy background noise, crosstalk, or strong accents are quoted at the difficult-audio rate, from $2.25 per minute. We tell you before work starts, never after.
Timestamps are optional at $0.25 per minute for audio and $0.50 per minute for video.
A $25 minimum applies to audio and document orders.
Podcast Transcription questions
How much does podcast transcription cost?
$1.75 per minute on 4-day standard turnaround, $2.50 for 48-hour rush, and $3.50 for 24-hour same day. Episodes with significant crosstalk or variable remote audio quality are quoted at the difficult-audio rate from $2.25 per minute. A $25 minimum applies.
Do transcripts help podcast SEO?
They give search engines text to index for content that is otherwise only audio, which is the practical benefit. Publishing the transcript on the episode page is what realises it - a transcript sitting in a file does nothing for discoverability.
Can you label hosts and guests separately?
Yes. Speaker labels are included, and a human reviewer verifies speaker changes against the audio - which matters most in exactly the overlapping moments automated transcription tends to mishandle.
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