Find the quote in a 90-minute interview without scrubbing the file

You remember a good line. You do not remember the minute. A 90-minute interview is a long place to hunt by ear.

Search the words, then check the tape

Quote hunter is built for that hunt. You upload the recording and type a phrase or topic. It finds matching lines, shows the time for each one, and lets you download a short clip of that bite.

Example: search “pricing” and leave with five usable quotes instead of a sentence you half-remembered.

How journalists and researchers usually go wrong

They write from the notes, then go back to “find a clip” that matches the rewrite. The clip does not match. Quote hunter flips the order: find the line first, then write the sentence that the line can support.

If you still need chapters or a full Spoken Record, use the home-page upload on the same file, then come back here when you know the topic.

Queries that work

Short nouns beat long questions. “Deadline,” “budget,” “childhood,” “the factory.” If nothing returns, the word may not be in the transcript. Try the synonym the speaker actually used. Speech-to-text will miss some names. Search the misspelling you see in the transcript, not the spelling you wish was there.

One search is rarely enough. Do a pass for the theme (“pricing”), then a pass for the proper noun you will print. Keep a column in your notes: query, line, time. That is the part that survives into the draft.

What it will not do

It will not rank quotes by how useful they are. It will not invent a sharper sentence than the one that was said. If five hits are all the same story told twice, pick the clearest take and leave the rest.