How Sessions Work
In 12scribe, a session is a continuous block of recorded audio. When you start recording and then stop, that creates one session. When you pause and resume, the app creates a new session within the same project. All sessions share continuous timestamps, so your markers and transcriptions flow seamlessly across breaks.
This design maps perfectly to real-world scenarios. University lectures have coffee breaks. Meetings have intermissions. Conferences have lunch pauses. Interviews get interrupted by phone calls. Rather than creating separate projects for each segment and losing the connection between them, 12scribe keeps everything in one project with clean session boundaries that maintain chronological order.
Sessions are visible inside the project as separate audio segments, each with its own start time and duration. But during playback, they join together into one continuous stream — the listener does not hear gaps or clicks at session boundaries.
Pause and Resume
During an active recording, tap Pause to temporarily stop capturing audio. The timer freezes, the waveform goes flat, and the microphone stops recording. No audio is captured during the pause — this is not the same as recording silence. The pause duration is excluded from the total recording time.
When you are ready to continue, tap Resume. A new recording session begins automatically, and the timer picks up from where it left off. The transition is seamless: if you paused at 23:14, the first moment of the new session is 23:14.
You can pause and resume as many times as you need during a single recording day. Each pause-resume cycle creates a new session, but they all live inside the same project and share the same timeline.
Multiple Sessions in One Project
A single project can contain many recording sessions. Here are common real-world scenarios:
- A three-hour lecture with two 10-minute breaks creates three sessions — one per uninterrupted segment
- A multi-day conference where you record each talk separately but want all sessions organized under one project
- An interview conducted across multiple rounds on different days, where each round is a separate session
- A long meeting with a lunch break in the middle, creating two sessions with the break excluded
Each session is listed inside the project with its own start time and duration. You can tap any individual session to play just that segment, or play the full project to hear all sessions in continuous sequence. Markers from all sessions are merged into a single chronological list, so reviewing the full recording feels like reviewing one continuous stream.
When you transcribe, each session can be handled independently. You can transcribe the most important session immediately and queue the others for later. Alternatively, you can transcribe the entire project at once. The final transcript combines everything into one searchable document regardless of how many sessions it contains.
If you accidentally tap Stop instead of Pause, you can simply start a new recording in the same project. It becomes the next session and joins the timeline as if you had used pause-resume. The only difference is that the stop-start approach resets the timer display, while pause-resume keeps it continuous. Learn the full recording interface in How to Record Audio.
Tips for Multi-Session Recording
- Always prefer Pause over Stop during known breaks — it keeps timestamps continuous and your marker timeline clean
- Add a marker right before pausing to note the reason for the break ("Coffee break", "Intermission", "Lunch") — this helps during later review
- If you accidentally stopped instead of pausing, start a new recording in the same project — it becomes the next session automatically
- Check the session list after a long recording day to verify all segments were captured correctly
- For multi-day conferences, create one project per day rather than putting all days into one project — this keeps individual projects manageable while still allowing global search across all of them