Earnings Call Transcription for IR Teams
An earnings call transcript has to be accurate and posted fast: analysts, journalists, and investors expect the transcript within hours, not days, and any garbled attribution between the CFO and an analyst becomes a credibility problem the moment someone quotes it. Manual transcription vendors serving IR teams typically promise next-day turnaround at best.
BrassTranscripts transcribes a typical 45-60 minute earnings call in roughly 2–5 minutes and automatically separates executives from analysts with speaker labels and timestamps, at a flat $6.00 per call. An IR team can have a reviewed, publish-ready transcript posted before the call replay itself finishes uploading.
Quick Navigation
- Why Earnings Call Transcripts Need Same-Day Turnaround
- Speaker Identification for Executives and Analysts
- Cost of Transcribing an Earnings Call
- From Call to Published Transcript
- Frequently Asked Questions
Why Earnings Call Transcripts Need Same-Day Turnaround
An earnings call transcript is public-facing the moment it is posted, and the market has already reacted to the numbers by the time the call happens, so the transcript's job is to give analysts and financial media an accurate written record to quote from and compare against prior quarters, not to break new information. That makes speed and attribution accuracy the two things that matter most, more than any other transcript use case in the professional-use library.
Financial news outlets and data providers like to publish call analysis within hours of the call ending, and an IR team without a fast internal transcript is working from memory or rough notes while a data provider's paid feed is already circulating a version. Posting an accurate, company-verified transcript to the investor relations site quickly closes that gap and gives the company control over the exact wording, rather than ceding the record to a third party's automated summary.
Speaker Identification for Executives and Analysts
BrassTranscripts automatically identifies and labels up to 6 distinct speakers per recording, which covers a typical earnings call lineup: CEO, CFO, sometimes a third executive, plus the analysts who ask questions during Q&A. Each speaker's turns arrive with timestamps, so a reviewer checking a specific answer against the transcript can jump straight to that moment in the recording.
The transcript labels speakers by voice, not by name, since the system has no way to know in advance which analyst from which firm is speaking. An IR associate reviewing the output assigns real names using the same participant roster used to run the Q&A queue during the call, typically a faster pass than transcribing the call from scratch by ear. The speaker identification guide covers how that labeling holds up across call quality and cross-talk during rapid-fire Q&A exchanges.
Cost of Transcribing an Earnings Call
A standard 45-60 minute earnings call costs $6.00 to transcribe as a single file, the flat rate for any recording 16 minutes or longer. Shorter operational updates or pre-announcement calls under 15 minutes cost $2.50. There is no subscription and no per-minute charge if the Q&A session runs long.
Companies building a historical archive, transcribing several years of past calls to make an internal or public transcript library searchable, benefit from bulk processing instead of uploading calls one at a time. Bulk pricing on long recordings scales from $6.00 per file down to $3.00 as batch size grows, which matters for an IR team backfilling a multi-year archive in one batch rather than a call at a time each quarter. The corporate meeting documentation workflow covers the broader pattern of turning recurring business recordings into a searchable archive.
From Call to Published Transcript
The practical workflow starts with the call recording itself, most conferencing and webcast platforms used for earnings calls export the full audio or video directly. Uploading that file returns a transcript in TXT for the version posted to the IR site and pasted into any wire release, and JSON for teams whose media monitoring or sentiment-analysis tooling ingests structured, timestamped, speaker-labeled data. A 30-word preview appears before payment, letting a reviewer confirm the transcript reads accurately on the specific call's audio quality before committing to the charge.
Once the transcript is reviewed and speaker names are filled in, most IR teams post it to the investor relations site within the same trading day, alongside the earnings release and call replay. The board meeting transcription guide covers the related but distinct case of transcribing internal governance meetings that stay confidential rather than becoming a public document, and the transcript format guide covers matching output format to how the transcript will be reused.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do investor relations teams transcribe earnings calls quickly?
Upload the recorded call, prepared remarks plus the analyst Q&A, to an AI transcription service immediately after the call ends. BrassTranscripts processes a typical 45-60 minute earnings call in roughly 2–5 minutes and automatically labels up to 6 distinct speakers, separating executives from each analyst asking questions, so a reviewed transcript is ready to post to the investor relations site the same day rather than after a multi-day vendor turnaround.
How much does it cost to transcribe an earnings call?
A standard 45-60 minute earnings call costs $6.00 to transcribe at BrassTranscripts, the flat rate for any recording 16 minutes or longer. Shorter calls, a brief operational update or a pre-announcement call under 15 minutes, cost $2.50. There is no subscription. Companies transcribing calls every quarter across multiple years of history can use bulk processing to price a backlog of past calls on a sliding per-file scale.
Can transcription tell which analyst asked which question on an earnings call?
BrassTranscripts automatically identifies and labels up to 6 distinct speakers per recording using AI diarization, which separates each executive and each analyst by voice with timestamps. The transcript does not know analyst names in advance, so an IR team reviewing the output assigns names to speaker labels using the same roster they use to run the Q&A queue, a fast pass compared to identifying voices from scratch.
What transcript format should IR teams use for a posted earnings call transcript?
TXT works directly for the transcript posted to the investor relations website and for pasting into a wire release, while JSON carries structured, timestamped, speaker-labeled data into media monitoring or sentiment-analysis tools that some IR and comms teams run against call transcripts. BrassTranscripts provides both formats, along with SRT and VTT for teams that sync a transcript to an earnings call replay video.
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