Ten interviews, one deadline. Find who said what without a night of replaying.
Upload the interview (or record it in the browser). After a short wait — you can watch the progress — you have the full transcript and notes — in the language it was spoken, or translated into English. Then ask all your interviews one question.
- The whole interview as text, in the mix of languages your source actually spoke
- Search the transcripts for the exact line; with Pro, ask and get the quote with its interview named
- Pro: "Who said what about ___?" across every interview on the story
Free: 300 minutes a month. Try a 3-minute recording without an account.
Filing the water-crisis story by 6 pm
Rahul has ten interviews for a story on Chennai's water tankers: residents in Tamil, an official in English, two tanker owners in a Tamil-English mix. He uploads them into a folder called "Water story" and asks who said what about tanker prices. The answer groups each person's view and names the interview it came from. He pulls the exact quotes, translates the Tamil ones into English for his editor, and checks each against the audio before filing. (An illustration of how the app works, not a real customer.)
Record → ask → get
1 · Record or upload
Record in person or on speaker in the browser, or upload the MP3 or M4A from your phone. Free files can be up to 100 minutes each.
2 · Get the transcript
You get the full transcript with speaker labels you can rename, plus notes in one of 5 summary styles. Translate into English or 50+ languages in one tap.
3 · Ask your interviews
Select the interviews (or a folder) and ask "Who said what about ___?" or tap "Pull exact quotes about ___". Every answer names the interview it came from (Pro).
Example
You ask: “Who said what about tanker prices?”
Example answer: "Resident, Velachery: prices doubled since March (Source: Interview 3, 12 Jun). Tanker owner: diesel costs went up, not our margins (Source: Interview 7, 13 Jun). Official: a price cap is under review (Source: Interview 9, 14 Jun)."
You ask: “Pull exact quotes about the price cap.”
Example answer: "'We have sent the proposal; nothing is final yet.' (Source: Interview 9, 14 Jun) · 'A cap means we stop running at night.' (Source: Interview 7, 13 Jun)"
You ask: “Translate the key quotes into English.”
Example answer: The Tamil quotes from the residents, in English, with the original Tamil kept next to each one so you can check the wording.
Examples show what chat does with your own recordings; the answers depend on what was said in your interviews. Always check a quote against the audio before you publish.
One question across every interview on the story
Make a folder for each story or beat — "Water story", "Election desk", "Court reporting" — and ask it anything. hearlog reads every interview in the folder and tells you which one each point came from. The free plan includes 2 folders; Pro gives you as many as you need and lets you ask across them.
- Who said what about ___?
- Pull exact quotes about ___
- Build a timeline
- List contradictions
- Summarize all selected on one topic
- Explain in ___
What Pro adds for a journalist
- Ask one question across all your interviews or a whole story folder — answers name the interview.
- Two-hour interviews and panel discussions in one go (free: 100 minutes per file) and 1,200 minutes a month (free: 300).
- Upload a day of interviews at once — up to 10 files, each becomes its own note.
- Pull text out of a photo of a document, a PDF report or a YouTube press conference.
See all 12 things Pro adds
- Chat with your recordings. Ask one recording, several, or a whole folder — every answer names the recording it came from.
- One-tap quiz, flashcards, action items, timeline. Tap once to turn your recordings into a quiz, flashcards, a list of action items or a dated timeline.
- Save a chat answer as Word or PDF, email it, or keep it as a note. Keep a good answer: download it, send it to your inbox, or save it next to your recordings. Answers in Indian scripts download as Word.
- 1,200 minutes a month (20 hours). 20 hours of recordings a month (free: 5 hours) — enough for a daily one-hour lecture.
- Files up to 2 hours / 300 MB. Do the whole lecture, hearing or podcast in one go — free files stop at 100 minutes.
- Upload up to 10 files at once, a note for each. Drop a week of recordings in one go and get a finished note for each one.
- Text from a photo, scanned PDF or YouTube video. Turn a whiteboard photo, a scanned judgment or a captioned YouTube video into notes you can translate and summarise.
- Paste up to 50,000 characters to translate and summarise. Translate and summarise a whole chapter or report at once — free text stops at 5,000 characters.
- Email a meeting’s action items to up to 5 people. Send everyone their to-dos straight from the note — no copying and pasting.
- Download the original audio. Keep the recording itself to share or archive, next to its transcript and summary.
- As many folders as you need — including lawyers’ case folders. A folder for every course, client or case — free has 2.
- Case chat for lawyers — timelines, contradictions, client updates. Ask across a client’s hearings and calls: build a timeline, list contradictions, draft a client update.
Pro is ₹2,990/year (2 months free) or ₹299/month in India ($49/year or $6.99/month elsewhere). The free plan stays free: 300 minutes a month.
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Can I trust the quotes?
Use them as a fast way to find the right moment, then check the wording against the original audio before you publish. AI transcripts can mishear names, numbers and mumbled words, especially on noisy phone or street recordings.
Does it work for interviews in Indian languages?
Yes. hearlog transcribes every major Indian language — Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi and more — plus 50+ world languages, and keeps code-switched speech as it was spoken. You can translate any transcript into English. Powered by Google Gemini.
Is my interview audio private?
Recordings and notes are stored encrypted at rest (AES-256, database level) and sent over HTTPS. Each account can open only its own notes. No meeting bot joins your calls — you record or upload yourself. You can delete a recording whenever you like.
How much is free?
The free plan gives you 300 minutes a month, files up to 100 minutes each, transcripts, 5 summary styles, translation and PDF or Word export. No card. Asking questions across your interviews is part of Pro.
Should I tell my source I am recording?
Yes. Follow your publication's rules and the law where you report: tell the person you are recording and how you will use it. hearlog only works with audio you record or upload yourself.
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