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Slice Transcribe

Recordings to text: lectures, interviews, meetings. Free for one a day. For more, buy hours once from $2.99: no subscription, and they never expire. 5 hours $2.9915 hours $6.9940 hours $14.99See prices

Looked after by Clack, a typewriter with a sheet of paper in it.

We show the transcript here and email you the text, SRT and VTT, so you still have them tomorrow.

Free. Your first one needs no account; after that, sign in for one recording a day, up to 90 minutes. Longer lectures? Slice Transcribe hours take 3-hour recordings.

Prices

Pay once · never expires · no subscription

Free

1 a day

up to 90 minutes each

Try it free

Hour pack

5 hours

$2.99 once

about 60¢ an hour

Hour pack

15 hours

$6.99 once

about 47¢ an hour

Semester packBest value

40 hours

$14.99 once

about 37¢ an hour

You make a free Slice account first, so the hours have somewhere to go.

Every pack: recordings up to 3 hours, no daily limit, Word and Notion export, notes with timestamps. A 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes.

What is Slice Transcribe?

Slice Transcribe turns recordings into text: lectures, seminars, research interviews, meetings and podcasts. It is free for one recording a day up to 90 minutes (your first needs no account; after that, a free account). For more, you buy hours once: 5 hours for $2.99, 15 hours for $6.99 or 40 hours for $14.99. There is no subscription and nothing renews, and the hours never expire. Each recording uses its own length, rounded up to the minute, so a 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes. With hours you get recordings up to 3 hours, no daily limit, notes with a timestamp on every paragraph, Word (.docx) and Copy for Notion, and your transcripts kept on your account until you delete them. Any pack can be bought as a gift.

Free, and with hours

Free

  • One recording a day, up to 90 minutes
  • Your first needs no account; then a free account
  • .txt, .srt and .vtt, emailed to you
  • Speakers labelled when more than one person talks
  • Kept for 30 days, then deleted

With hours, from $2.99

  • Paid once: no subscription, nothing renews
  • The hours never expire
  • A 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes
  • Recordings up to 3 hours, no daily limit
  • Word (.docx), Copy for Notion, timestamped notes
  • Kept on your account until you delete them

Give hours as a gift

For a friend with a heavy term, a student you supervise, or a colleague with a stack of interviews: choose Buy as a gift on any pack above. After paying you get a link to send, or we email it for you with a short note from the Slice team. They sign in or make a free account, press Redeem, and the hours are theirs. Each link works once, and the hours never go to your own account.

How it works

  1. 1Upload a recordingAudio or video up to 600MB: MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV and more. Up to 90 minutes free, 3 hours with hours.
  2. 2Wait a few minutesYou can close the tab: it is emailed to you and saved to Your transcripts when you are signed in.
  3. 3Read and exportCopy the text, or download .txt, .srt and .vtt; with hours, Word, Copy for Notion and timestamped notes too.

Questions

Is it a subscription?
No. You pay once for a pack of hours. Nothing renews, there is nothing to cancel, and your card is not charged again unless you buy another pack.
Do the hours expire?
No. They stay on your account until you use them, whether that is next week or next year.
How are hours counted?
By the length of each recording, rounded up to the whole minute. A 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes; a 46-minute-and-1-second one uses 47. When a transcript starts we hold its length from your hours; if it fails, every minute comes back.
What do I get with hours that I do not get free?
Recordings up to 3 hours instead of 90 minutes, no daily limit, notes with a [12:34] timestamp on every paragraph, Word (.docx) and Copy for Notion exports, and transcripts kept on your account until you delete them (free ones are deleted after 30 days).
Is the free tier still free?
Yes: one recording a day up to 90 minutes, with .txt, .srt and .vtt. Your first needs no account. After that you sign in with a free account, and the daily one is counted by your account, so a shared campus network does not use it up.
How do gifts work?
Choose Buy as a gift on any pack. After paying you get a link to send, and we can email it for you. Whoever opens it signs in or makes a free account and redeems it; the hours are added to their account once, and the link cannot be used again. They are never added to yours.
Which languages does it work in?
The language is detected and the transcript comes back in the language spoken: French, Spanish, German and many others work. Accuracy is best in English. Check names and technical terms against your notes.
What happens to my recording?
It is uploaded to private storage, sent to AssemblyAI (the speech-to-text service we use) to be transcribed, and deleted after 7 days. It is not used to train anything. You can delete any transcript yourself, straight away.
Can I get a refund?
If something went wrong, write to mediabyslice@gmail.com. A transcript that fails gives its hours back automatically.

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