How to transcribe a French and English meeting find the main language, then upload.
Upload the meeting as one file when one language carries most of it: the main language, French or English, is detected automatically and English terms inside French speech are handled, for files up to 10 hours or 5 GB at about 2 minutes per audio hour. When the meeting runs in long blocks of each language, upload the blocks separately; a 2-hour meeting is 120 minutes on the $4 pack of 300, and the opening minutes are a free preview.
Bilingual meetings, sorted
Three meeting shapes, and what to upload for each.
Shape one: one language leads
A French meeting peppered with English terms, or an English one where a few people answer in French. Upload it whole. The transcript follows the main language, and the brief and chapters summarise the full discussion, including the points made in the other language.
Shape two: blocks
The morning in French, the afternoon in English, or a board that alternates by agenda item. Cut at each long changeover and upload the pieces; every file is then detected on its own language and gets its own chapters and brief.
Shape three: interpreted
If the meeting had interpretation and the floor and interpreter channels were recorded separately, upload the channel in the language you need. A single mix where each sentence is followed by its interpretation alternates too quickly to split by hand; send it whole and expect the language heard most to lead the transcript.
Getting the file in
Video calls and room recorders usually produce an MP4 or M4A that uploads as it is; a 2-hour M4A is often well under 200 MB. YouTube, Vimeo and Google Drive links can be pasted. The box here takes files up to 500 MB; a larger recording continues on the main upload page.
Two official languages, one record
A meeting in two languages does not need two tools.
✗ What slows it down
Habits left over from the days when minutes were typed by hand in each language.
- A separate service for each language
- Setting one language for a mixed file
- Splitting at every sentence that switches
- Retyping the French parts by hand
- Waiting days for the minutes
- Testing on the whole file at once
✓ What works
One upload plan for each meeting shape, decided before the file goes in.
- Main language detected automatically
- Long blocks uploaded as separate files
- Interpreter channel used if recorded
- Decisions and takeaways in the brief
- Minutes drafted from DOCX
- Opening minutes previewed free
Sample
A mostly French meeting with English terms, as text.
Illustrative lines written for this page; the meeting is invented.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
French and English meetings: the follow-up questions.
How do I transcribe a French and English meeting?
If one language leads, upload it as one file; if it runs in long blocks of each language, upload the blocks separately. French and English are both detected automatically, and files go up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Do I choose French or English before uploading?
No. There is no language setting; the main language is detected from 99. The first a free preview of the opening minutes show how your mix comes out before you buy, which matters most when the two languages are close to evenly shared.
What do a year of bilingual meetings cost?
A 2-hour meeting every second week is 26 meetings, or 3,120 minutes, which fits the $32 pack of 6,000. Four 3-hour quarterly meetings are 720 minutes, which fits the $18 pack of 3,000.
Is a recording over 2 GB a problem?
Not up to 5 GB. Uploads go up to 5 GB with or without a pack; a bigger file needs splitting or an audio export. A meeting longer than 10 hours goes in as two files.
Can I record the video call?
Yes, with the consent of participants that the law where you are requires. Nothing joins the call; you upload the recording afterwards.
Which exports come with it, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Meetings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
Related
Related pages on bilingual meetings.
French and English in one room? Test a free preview of the opening minutes.
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