Accurate, Affordable Transcription for Lawyers, Journalists, and Researchers — No Subscription Required

Transcription is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you’re staring down a two-hour deposition recording at 10 PM and a filing deadline in the morning. Whether you’re a lawyer reviewing client interviews, a journalist working from recorded sources, or a qualitative researcher coding hours of focus group audio, accurate transcription is not optional — and waiting days for a human transcription service isn’t always an option either.

Weftly delivers fast, word-level, timestamped transcripts from audio and video files in minutes. No subscription, no account, and no commitment beyond the job in front of you.

Legal Transcription Without the Overhead

Lawyers and paralegals routinely need transcripts of client meetings, recorded witness statements, depositions, arbitration proceedings, and internal case review sessions. Traditional legal transcription services charge by the audio minute, lock you into monthly minimums, or require a turnaround window that doesn’t fit litigation timelines.

Weftly’s audio transcription starts at $0.50, and video transcription is $1.00. Upload an MP3, MP4, WAV, or M4A file and receive a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes — formatted and ready to drop into your case management system, brief, or discovery folder. Pay by card via Stripe. No retainer, no setup fee, no subscription.

Interview Transcription for Journalists and Researchers

Journalists working on long-form features or investigative pieces know that transcribing recorded interviews is the single most time-consuming part of the research process. Qualitative researchers face the same wall — hours of recorded interviews, focus groups, and field sessions that need to be transcribed before analysis can begin.

Weftly handles MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, and WebM audio files up to 2 GB, and MP4, MOV, and WebM video files up to 5 GB. Word-level timestamps mean you can jump to any moment in the source recording from the transcript itself — invaluable when you need to pull a direct quote or verify a speaker attribution. Most transcripts finish in 1–5 minutes for typical interview-length recordings.

Corporate Meeting Transcription and Conference Call Summaries

For business teams, HR professionals, and consultants, Weftly’s Summarize tool ($0.75 for audio, $1.25 for video) pairs a concise AI-generated recap with the full timestamped transcript in a single job. One upload produces both the searchable verbatim record and the executive summary — useful for board meetings, client calls, performance interviews, and compliance documentation.

Data Handling: What Weftly Does — and Doesn’t — Cover

Weftly auto-deletes uploaded files after 24 hours. They are not stored, analyzed, or retained beyond the time needed to complete your job. No account means no profile tied to your content.

That said, it’s worth being direct about the trust model: Weftly is a cloud processing service, which puts it in roughly the same category as Notion, Dropbox, or Google Drive. For most professional transcription work — journalist interviews, research sessions, business meetings, HR documentation — that’s a reasonable and widely accepted standard.

For certain categories of sensitive material, it is not sufficient on its own:

• Attorney-client privileged work product — uploading privileged recordings to any third-party cloud service without a signed data processing agreement may implicate your ethical obligations, depending on your jurisdiction and bar rules.
• NDA-protected or source-sensitive reporting — journalists with confidential sources or under non-disclosure obligations should apply the same judgment they would to any cloud tool.
• HIPAA-covered or PII-bearing content — Weftly does not currently offer a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). If your recordings contain protected health information or regulated personally identifiable information, an additional compliance layer is required before use.

If your work falls into any of these categories, consult your organization’s data governance policy or legal counsel before uploading. For everything else, Weftly’s 24-hour auto-delete and no-account model offers a clean, low-footprint way to get accurate transcripts fast.

Already Using Claude or Another AI Tool? Add Weftly to Your Workflow

If you’re already working inside Claude, Hermes, OpenClaw, or another MCP-compatible AI assistant, you don’t need to leave your workflow to get a transcript. Weftly is available as an MCP server — add it once as a custom connector and transcription becomes a native part of how you work.

In Claude Desktop, go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste the Weftly MCP server URL:

https://api.weftly.ai/mcp

From that point on, you can ask Claude to transcribe a recording, summarize a deposition, or pull key points from a client meeting — all without switching tabs or uploading to a separate service. The first time you run a paid job, Weftly returns a Stripe Checkout link. Pay by card and your AI assistant continues automatically.

For legal teams, researchers, and journalists who already use AI tools to draft, analyze, and organize their work, this means transcription slots directly into the same conversation — no copy-pasting between tools, no broken context. Builders who want the full walkthrough should read Add Video Transcription and Clipping to Your AI Workflow.

Weftly is also available via REST API for teams that want to integrate transcription into a document management system, case management platform, or custom internal workflow.

Get Started in Under a Minute

No software to install. No account to create. Visit chat.weftly.ai, upload your audio or video file, and your transcript is ready before your next cup of coffee.

Accurate transcription. Transparent pricing. No subscription. Try Weftly today.

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