Transcription for every profession

convert.express is used by people who regularly need to turn spoken audio into written text: journalists transcribing interview recordings, podcasters creating show notes and episode transcripts, students converting lecture recordings into reviewable notes, legal professionals drafting summaries of depositions or client meetings, medical practitioners documenting consultations, and researchers processing fieldwork interviews. What they share is a need for accurate, fast transcription without committing to a monthly subscription for a tool they use irregularly.

The service runs on OpenAI Whisper, Microsoft MAI-Transcribe 1.5, or Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, depending on which you choose, covering 64 languages and accents with consistently high accuracy. Transcripts are returned with speaker timing and can be exported as plain text, SRT subtitle files, or VTT caption tracks. Files are automatically deleted within 24 hours and are never used for model training — a privacy posture that matters when the recordings contain confidential interviews, legal proceedings, or patient information.

The pricing model is designed for irregular professional workloads. Every account gets 10 free minutes of transcription per day — enough for a short interview clip or a meeting recap without touching a credit card. Beyond that, pay-as-you-go billing charges per minute of audio actually processed, with no monthly minimum and no subscription to cancel. A journalist transcribing two long-form interviews per week pays only for those two files. A student running transcriptions during exam season and nothing the rest of the year is never charged for the quiet months. See the pricing page for current rates and a cost estimator.

The volume and cadence of transcription work differs sharply by profession. Journalists and researchers tend to process long recordings in batches — a day of field interviews or a week of press briefings uploaded in a single session. Short-form creators like podcasters work on a consistent weekly schedule where the cost per episode is predictable and fixed. Clinical professionals often dictate notes short enough that the daily free quota covers most days entirely, while legal professionals need transcription only for specific matters rather than on a rolling basis.

Supported file formats include MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, and MKV — covering phone voice memos, dedicated audio recorders, and video camera output without any conversion step. Files up to 2 GB are accepted in a single upload, and longer recordings are split, transcribed in parallel, and merged automatically so you never have to pre-process the audio before uploading.