Interview Juicing
Published Jan 16, 2026 · Updated Jan 22, 2026
A video or audio recording captures life but can be hard work to get the good stuff out.
People speak at around 150 words a minute. That means a cosy 20-minute chat with a parent or grandparent quietly turns into about 3,000 words.
No one wants to type that out. And more importantly, no one ever does—which is how so many good stories stay locked inside recordings, listened to once and then forgotten.
Thankfully, transcription is now something AI is genuinely good at. MemoryJam uses modern speech-to-text systems that handle long, natural conversations, multiple accents, and many languages with ease.
You upload what you already have—video or audio—and the rest just happens.
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Transcription is only the start
A transcript on its own is useful, but its real power is what it enables.
Once your interviews are transcribed, you can search across all your recordings. Looking for a particular person? A place name? An event that crops up in several conversations? You’ll find it in seconds.
No scrubbing through timelines. No “I’m sure they mentioned it somewhere”.
Just words you can actually work with.
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Summaries that respect context
MemoryJam doesn’t just dump a wall of text and leave you to fend for yourself.
Each recording is automatically summarised, giving you a clear sense of what’s covered without having to read—or listen to—the whole thing. Even better, it identifies key topics and highlights them, so you can jump straight to the relevant moments in the original recording.
Crucially, the summaries take your context into account.
If you’ve added who’s speaking, where the conversation took place, or what period of their life it relates to, the AI uses that information to produce summaries that are more specific, more grounded, and more useful.
The same story sounds very different depending on whether it happened in wartime London or a 1970s factory floor—and MemoryJam knows that.
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Built for real recordings
When you upload a video, MemoryJam converts it into a standard MP4 file, extracts the audio, and processes everything behind the scenes. There’s nothing special you need to do, and no particular recording setup required.
Files can be up to 6GB, so long interviews and high-quality video are welcome.
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MemoryJam isn’t about replacing listening. It’s about making sure those conversations don’t disappear into a folder marked “one day”.
Transcripts and summaries turn recordings into living material—something you can revisit, connect, and build on, while the voices that matter are still there to be heard.