The problem
Parliaments, councils, and government broadcast units produce hours of chamber sittings, committee hearings, and webcasts. That output is a public record, but raw video and audio isn't searchable, so finding who said what — for the official record, for media, or for access requests — is slow and manual.
How Whipscribe helps
Whipscribe transcribes sittings, hearings, and webcasts into timestamped, speaker-labelled text, so the exact moment a member or witness said something is a keyword search away — a searchable companion to the official record, with the audio on infrastructure you control.
Search the chamber
Find who said what across sittings and hearings by keyword instead of scrubbing hours of webcast.
Speaker-labelled
Diarisation separates members and witnesses so contributions are attributable.
A transparency-friendly record
A searchable, timecoded text record supports media, research, and public access.
Private & controlled
Self-hosted Whisper — sensitive proceedings never pass to a third-party AI service, and retention stays under your control.
Questions
Is this an official Hansard?
No — Whipscribe produces a fast, searchable transcript that complements, not replaces, any official record your body maintains.
Can it handle long sittings and hearings?
Yes — there's no short length cap; multi-hour sittings are exactly the case this handles, timestamped throughout.
Where is the audio processed?
On private infrastructure with open-source Whisper — never sent to a third-party AI service, and never used to train models.
Note: Whipscribe is a transcription tool that makes recordings searchable; it complements your recording and retention systems, it does not replace them, and nothing here is legal advice. Confirm your current obligations with your licence conditions and the applicable code.