You follow a handful of shows for work. Competitor interviews, the industry panel, the weekly one where somebody occasionally says the thing you need to quote. A new episode lands, and transcribing it is a small chore that someone has to remember to do.
Podcast feeds do that part for you. Paste a show’s RSS address once, and every episode it publishes from then on is transcribed and waiting in your library.
Price a show before you commit to it
Paste the address and press Estimate. Transcribr reads the feed and tells you what watching it would actually use: how many episodes the show publishes in a month, the average episode length, and the audio hours those add up to. The numbers come from the show’s own publishing history rather than an assumed weekly hour, and the estimate says plainly whether that fits inside the hours you already have.
Some feeds do not publish episode lengths. When that happens the estimate tells you it had to assume, instead of quietly presenting a guess as a measurement.
The back catalogue stays where it is
When you add a show, everything it already carries is recorded and left alone. Only episodes published after that point are transcribed. A show with a five-hundred-episode archive does not turn into a five-hundred-episode bill on the first check.
Those older episodes are still listed, marked as already published, so you can see what the show carries rather than guessing at what was skipped.
One old episode, when you actually want it
Sometimes you do want an old one. Open the show, find the episode, press Transcribe. Before you click, the button tells you roughly how many minutes of your plan it will use, so the decision is made against a number instead of discovered afterwards. Episodes whose length the feed never stated say that too, and are counted as about an hour.
If a transcript fails, the same episode can be tried again. Nothing is stuck.
Every episode says what happened to it
The episode list is the full record, not just the successes. Each item is transcribed, queued, transcribing, or skipped with a reason: your hours for the period are used up, the episode is over the limit of 6 hours or 200 MB, the feed carried no audio, the transcript failed. An episode skipped because the hours ran out stays skipped, and the Transcribe button is how you pick it up later.
An episode that produced nothing leaves a trace explaining itself. That is the difference between knowing the system passed over your Tuesday show on purpose and wondering whether it ran at all.
Feeds are checked every hour. Each feed also shows when it was last checked, so “nothing new” and “nothing happened” are never the same screen.
Transcripts made for conversations
Watched feeds run the premium tier, which labels who is speaking. A podcast is two or three people talking over each other, and speaker labels are the difference between a wall of text and a usable record of the conversation. Disfluencies are removed by default, so what you read is what was meant.
When an episode finishes, you get an email naming the show and the episode, and a push notification if you use the app. You do not have to go looking.
What it costs
The Feeds plan is sold on its own. You do not need a personal transcription plan underneath it, because a team that wants podcast monitoring and nothing else is not an upsell.
You buy audio hours a month. Ten hours is $15 a month, and each band after that costs less: every hour past forty is $0.75. The dashboard shows how many of your included hours are spent and the date they reset, so the number that matters is on screen before you add another show. Cancel whenever you like and your feeds keep running until the period you paid for ends.
One account can watch up to twenty shows.
If a feed breaks, you hear about it
Feeds move. Addresses change, hosts go down, publishers retire a show without telling anyone. When one stops responding Transcribr slows down rather than hammering it, and if it stays broken it stops watching and emails you saying which feed and why.
The promise of this feature is that nobody has to check on it. A feed that had quietly stopped would break exactly that promise, so it is the one thing here worth interrupting you over.
Podcast feeds are live now. Paste a show, look at the estimate, and decide from there.