Hear2Text
For Podcasters

Podcast show notes and a full transcript for every episode

Show notes, chapter times, captions and the episode page all start from the same transcript. For independent podcasters and the small teams who publish for them: upload the finished cut or paste its link, and the episode comes back as text with a timestamp on every line and each voice kept apart.

Start Free - 120 Minutes WeeklyView Pricing

The episode ships. Everything around it waits.

You put a week into an hour of conversation and it goes out as one audio file with a two-line description underneath. The notes, the chapter times, the clips and the captions are all another evening spent scrubbing through a recording you have already heard three times, and that evening usually loses to next week's episode.

  • Search engines cannot hear you

    Everything you said in that hour exists as sound, and search runs on text. Someone types the exact question your guest answered in minute 34 and gets nothing of yours back, because no page anywhere has those words on it.

  • Notes cost another evening

    Doing them properly means playing the episode back with a finger on the spacebar, hunting for the minute each topic starts and typing what you hear. An hour of tape turns into two hours of scrubbing, on top of the edit you just finished.

  • The best two minutes stay buried

    You know there was a moment somewhere in the middle that would travel, and you could not say where it was without playing the whole thing again. So the cut never happens and the episode goes out with a link and a hope.

  • Whole audiences never get in

    With no transcript and no captions, deaf and hard-of-hearing listeners are shut out of the show completely. So is everyone who reads faster than you talk, wants to scan before committing an hour, or is sitting on a train with the sound off.

Everything you publish comes out of one transcript

Send the episode over the moment the final cut renders: upload the file or paste the link. It comes back in minutes as text, timestamped line by line, with each speaker separated, so a three-guest roundtable reads as a script. From there your show notes, chapter times, the SRT for the video version, a translation and the post for your site all start from one document, and the AI assistant will dig the quotes and recurring themes out of it whenever you ask. Subtitle files, translation and the assistant are part of the $9.99 plan.

Show notes, clips and podcast SEO on release day

Before
  • ✗Record and Edit Episode
  • ✗Spend Hours Writing Show Notes
  • ✗No Time For Promotional Clips
  • ✗Episode Buried In Podcast Apps
  • ✗Limited Discoverability
After
  • Record and Edit Episode
  • Draft Show Notes From the Summary
  • Ask the Assistant for the Best Moments
  • Full Transcript Boosts SEO
  • Content Everywhere

Every episode, transcribed in one pass

Upload the master or paste a link (YouTube, Vimeo and other hosts all work) and the episode comes back as text at 95-99% accuracy on clear audio. There is no minute cap on the paid plan, so a weekly interview show and a daily ten-minute one both sit inside the same $9.99 a month. Recording in Spanish, German or Japanese instead? Detection is automatic across 100 languages.

Get Started

AI podcast show notes that start half-written

On the paid plan an AI summary reads the whole transcript and hands back the subjects covered, the things that got decided and anything someone committed to, each citing the line it came from. That is the skeleton of your show notes while the file is still uploading. You spend the time on voice and running order instead of on remembering what happened around minute 12.

Get Started

Find the clip before you cut it

There is no clip generator here and we never touch your audio or video. What you get is the fast way to find the moment worth cutting: ask the assistant which parts of the episode landed hardest, read them back in the transcript, then take the timestamp on that line straight to your timeline. The hunting stops being the expensive part of promo week.

Get Started

Use Cases

  • Show notes

    The cut is rendered and the notes need to exist before it goes live. Take the summary's key points with the timestamps attached to them, tidy the wording, and they are done inside the upload window.

  • Social clips

    Three promo cuts are due on Friday. Search the transcript for the moment you half-remember, read the timestamp on that line, and pull those seconds in your editor instead of rewinding for an hour first.

  • A page search can read

    Publishing the full transcript on the episode page puts an hour of your own subject matter on your own site, in a form a crawler can index. Every topic the conversation touched becomes something the page can be matched against.

  • Blog posts

    One good interview is usually two or three articles. Export to Word, cut it down to the thread you want, and you are editing prose that already exists rather than facing an empty document and a playhead.

  • Guest prep

    A guest is coming back on and you cannot remember what you covered last time. Open their old episode, ask the assistant what the two of you got into, and walk in without repeating a question you already asked.

Key Features

  • Guests kept apart

    Speaker identification splits a multi-guest episode voice by voice on every plan, and on the paid plan renaming one updates every line that person speaks. A roundtable reads like a script instead of a wall of text.

  • Timestamps you can turn into podcast chapters

    Every segment carries its own timestamp, so the minute a topic starts is already written down. Copy those times into your show notes or your video description and you have chapters. We do not write the chapter list for you.

  • Pull the quotes back out

    Ask the AI assistant what an episode said about a subject, or where the sharpest exchanges were, and it answers from that episode's own transcript. Find the line, take its timestamp, jump to the second it happens.

  • A show in more than one language

    100 languages with automatic detection, plus translation on the paid plan, so a Spanish episode can carry English subtitles without anyone re-recording anything.

  • Exports your other tools accept

    The paid plan exports TXT, SRT, VTT, Word and PDF, and the free plan exports TXT. There is no plugin for your podcast host: you download the file and put it where it needs to go.

  • The back catalogue stays readable

    Every episode you transcribe stays in your account with its text, timings and speaker names intact. Two years on you can open number 40 and ask the assistant what that guest actually said about it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I add chapters to a podcast episode?
Take the start time of each topic from the transcript, where every line already carries its timestamp, and list those times with a short title each in your episode description or your host's chapter editor, whichever your platform reads. We do not write the chapter list or add markers to your audio file, but the moment each subject begins is already written down, so there is no second listen to sit through. The transcript itself is usually back before you have finished writing the description.
Can it handle multiple speakers?
Yes. Speaker identification separates the voices and marks who is speaking on each line, on every plan. On the $9.99/month plan, rename Speaker 1 to your guest once and every line they say picks up the name, so a three-person roundtable reads as a conversation rather than one block of text, and the names can go into your exported files too.
How do I write podcast show notes?
Write them from the episode transcript rather than from memory. Start from the AI summary, which reads the whole thing and comes back with the subjects the episode covered, anything that got settled and anything someone said they would do, each one pointing at the line it came from. Those points, and the timestamps sitting next to them, are your notes and your chapter list before you have typed anything. Summaries come with the paid plan; on the free plan you get the transcript and write the notes from it yourself.
Can I embed the transcript on my podcast website?
Not as an embed: there is no embed code or widget, so nothing gets dropped into your page as an iframe. Export the transcript as TXT or Word and paste it into the episode page instead, which is the version search engines read anyway: text in your own HTML counts for more than text inside someone else's box. If you only need to send a transcript to a guest or an editor, you can open that one recording to anyone with the link.
Do podcast transcripts help SEO?
Yes, once the transcript is published as text on the episode page, because it gives a search engine something to read, which is the one thing audio cannot do for itself. An hour of conversation published as a transcript is a few thousand words of your own subject matter on your own page, so the questions your guest answered exist as text a crawler can match. Nobody can promise you a ranking, but a page carrying the episode's words has something to be found by and a play button does not.
What about long interviews and multi-hour episodes?
Long episodes go through in one piece, not in chunks, so the speaker labels hold from the first minute to the last instead of resetting halfway. Each file can run up to six hours on any plan, and the paid plan has no monthly cap, only fair use at 1,200 minutes of audio a day. On the free plan a two-hour interview uses the whole of that week's 120 minutes, and the allowance comes back every Monday whether you used it or not.

Write this week's show notes from the transcript

The free plan gives you 120 minutes every week, resetting each Monday, with no card at signup, roughly two episodes of a typical show. Unlimited minutes, AI summaries, translation, speaker names and every export format are $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year.

Start Free - 120 Minutes WeeklyView Pricing