Transcribe your podcast, speakers and all

A podcast episode is a conversation with structure: a cold open, segments, maybe a guest interview in the middle. Most transcription tools flatten all of that into one wall of text. Hushscript keeps every host and guest labeled, then adds free chapters, topics, quotes, summaries, and show-note suggestions in one Insights run. The whole result stays exportable in the formats transcript pages and publishing workflows actually need.

Transcribe a podcast in three steps

Upload the episode, or merge several related recordings into one ordered transcript (useful for a multi-part interview or a session recorded in segments). Preview the first 30 seconds, then sign up to get the full speaker-labeled transcript. Your first 30 minutes are free: add a card for a $1 check (released right away, never charged), or pay another way and they arrive with your first purchase.

Every host and guest, labeled

Speaker separation is automatic and free, so a two-person interview or a panel with three guests comes back clearly attributed, not a guessing game about who said what. It holds up through crosstalk and people talking over each other, which is most of what makes a lively panel worth listening to in the first place. Rename each speaker to a real name in a click, and it carries through the transcript, the exports, and any Insights pulled from it afterward.

Long episodes welcome

Transcribe full-length episodes up to 10 hours and stage a back catalog as a batch, with no file-size limit – large audio is prepared right in the browser. Your balance determines cost; active-job and service safeguards control how much work runs at once.

Chapters, speaker topics, and quotes for show notes

A raw transcript is a start; show notes need structure. Free Insights mark topic changes as timestamped chapters, group what each host or guest discussed, surface pull quotes, and suggest show-note and meeting-minutes exports. Actions, decisions, open questions, subject clusters, and cleanup arrive in the same run. Review cleanup in the Edit tab and apply only the changes you approve.

Export packs built for show notes

Once you’re ready to publish, export the transcript and any Insights together instead of piecing them apart by hand. A Research pack bundles the text and data formats for further editing; an Office pack bundles the document formats for a show-notes doc or an article draft; or grab All formats for everything at once, including subtitle files for a video cut of the episode. Every archive ships as a password-protected .husharchive with a manifest and checksums, or as a standard AES-encrypted ZIP if that’s what your editor or a VA needs to open it instead.

What it costs per episode

Transcription is priced in minutes, not a flat per-episode fee, so cost scales with how long the episode actually runs. The largest pack ($19.99 for 30 h (1,800 min)) works out to about $0.67 an hour, so a typical 45-minute episode costs roughly $0.50 to transcribe, and a 90-minute interview runs about $1 on the same pack. The complete Insights result costs no extra minutes. New accounts get 30 free transcription minutes to try the workflow first.

Private and no subscription

Your audio is deleted the moment the transcript is ready. Transcripts are encrypted at rest, so a leak of our storage would expose only ciphertext, never the conversation itself. Pay only for the minutes you use: no monthly fee, nothing to cancel, no per-episode contract to sign.