Podcast Transcription Services
Episode transcripts with speaker labels, ready for show notes, accessibility, and search.
Who this is for
Independent podcasters, podcast networks, and brands running a show as part of their content programme.
What you get back
The transcript and the fields, side by side
Every extracted value carries a confidence score and the quote it came from, so a reviewer can see why a value was read that way - and which ones need a second look.
- 12:30Host: So when did you first realise the original approach was not going to hold?
- 12:38Guest: Probably six months in, when we tried to onboard the second cohort.
- 13:02Guest: We rebuilt the whole ingestion pipeline over about eleven weeks.
- 13:25Host: And the team stayed the same size through that?
- 13:29Guest: We added two people, both on the data side.
- SpeakersHost + 1 guestHigh0.98
- Rebuild duration~11 weeksHigh0.92
- Team change+2 (data)High0.90
- Crosstalk segments3 flagged for reviewReview0.61
- Guest affiliation—Not found
Three segments of overlapping speech are flagged rather than guessed at.
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 when you enable it 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
$1.75/min
$2.50/min
$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 video alike.
- Human-verified orders carry a minimum: $25 for audio and documents, $30 for video. AI-only orders have no minimum.
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.
Ready for podcast transcription?
Send us the recording and choose your turnaround. We confirm the price before work begins.
Human-verified orders carry a minimum: $25 for audio and documents, $30 for video. AI-only orders have no minimum.