Transcribe interviews in minutes, not hours
Stop spending half your day typing up recordings. Upload the audio or video, get clean text back, start writing.
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Why journalists use convert.express
- Upload directly from your phone after a field interview — no desktop required
- 64 languages supported for international reporting and foreign-language sources
- Accurate enough for direct quotes on clear recordings
- Pay per file with no subscription — ideal for freelancers and irregular workloads
- Files are automatically deleted after 24 hours for source confidentiality
Journalists regularly record source interviews, press briefings, and phone calls that need to be transcribed before writing begins. A freelance reporter might process two or three hour-long interviews in a busy week and nothing the next — the kind of irregular volume where per-minute billing costs far less than a monthly subscription sized for daily use.
Popular languages: English · Spanish · Arabic · all 64 languages →
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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe lets you bias towards up to 1,000 names and terms and labels each speaker in-model — ideal for accurately quoting multiple sources in a single interview or panel recording.
How it works
Upload the recording
Drag and drop your interview file — MP3, WAV, M4A, voice memos, or MP4/MOV video recordings all work.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe transcribes it
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe produces a clean transcript with each speaker labelled, automatically detecting the language.
Copy and start writing
Download the plain text file or copy directly. Your transcript is ready for quotes and notes.
Translate or summarize if needed
Foreign-language source? Translate the finished transcript into any of 103 languages. Need a quick brief for an editor? Generate an AI summary from the same job.
Simple pay-as-you-go pricing
A typical 30-minute interview costs €0.60 to transcribe. 10 minutes are free every day.
Frequently asked questions
- What does it cost to transcribe a typical interview?
- A 30-minute interview costs €0.60 (30 × €0.02/min). The first 10 minutes of audio are free every day, so a short clip or voice memo may cost nothing at all. There is no subscription or monthly minimum — you pay only for what you actually transcribe.
- Are my interview recordings kept confidential?
- Files are automatically deleted within 24 hours of upload. No human reviewer listens to your recordings, and your audio is not used to train AI models. This makes the service suitable for source-sensitive journalism where recording confidentiality matters.
- Why is Gemini 3.5 Transcribe recommended for journalists?
- Gemini 3.5 Transcribe supports up to 1,000 entity-biasing terms — you can pre-load the names of interviewees, organisations, and locations before transcribing, five times the vocabulary MAI-Transcribe 1.5 allows. It also labels each speaker in-model, which helps attribute quotes correctly in multi-person interviews and panel recordings.
- Can it handle foreign-language interview recordings?
- 64 languages are supported and the language is detected automatically from the audio. A journalist working with a foreign-language source can upload the recording and receive a transcript in that language without any manual configuration.