Murmel 2.1: better transcriptions and no more limit on file duration
Murmel 2.1 is live. This update is about the two things users asked for most this past quarter: even better transcriptions, and the end of the file duration limit. A 9-hour recording? Just upload it, Murmel handles the rest.
Better transcriptions, thanks to your feedback
Since the launch of v2 there has been a steady stream of feedback: recordings where a passage went missing, sentences broken in the wrong place, and stray words the model invented in moments when nobody was speaking. Many users sent their audio along, and exactly that material made these improvements possible.
Murmel 2.1 addresses those points:
- More complete on long recordings. Processing is tuned so that long recordings, such as hours-long meetings and debates, are transcribed in full, without sections silently going missing.
- More natural sentences. Transcripts are now segmented at sentence level, with timestamps per sentence. That reads better and makes subtitle exports cleaner.
- Less invented text. Fragments the model invents during silence or background noise are detected and removed, without sacrificing real speech.
No more limit on file duration
Until now there was a per-file maximum: 2 to 4 hours, depending on your plan. Anyone with a longer recording had to cut it up themselves. That was the most common support question of recent months, and honestly: a computer is better at cutting up files than a person is.
So from today, Murmel does it itself. Upload a file of any length; if it is longer than 3 hours, Murmel automatically splits it into parts after upload and processes all of it. You get a transcript per part, clearly numbered, and one email once everything is done. Large files can now be up to 2 GB per upload (1 GB on Basic).
Your credits work the way you expect: a 9-hour recording costs 540 minutes, whether it is one file or three parts. Nothing changes about the price, only about the convenience.
Who is this for?
Anyone with long recordings: council meetings that run all evening, conference days, multi-day hearings, long interviews or full podcast recording days. Where you previously had to reach for an audio editor, you now drag one file into the studio and go do something else. The email arrives by itself.
Murmel 2.1 is ready for all users, no action needed: your next upload uses the new processing. No account yet? You can try Murmel for 14 days for €0.01 at murmel.nl.
Feedback remains welcome, and it gets read: this entire post is proof of that. Share it via murmel.nl/contact.