Transcription for board secretaries the meeting on paper before you draft the minutes.
A board secretary with a 3-hour board meeting recording gets the text back in about 6 minutes, with the order of business as chapters and the resolutions, figures and dates listed in a brief. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
What a board secretary records
Board meetings, committee meetings and the AGM, as text you can minute from.
In the room or hybrid
A conference-room recorder, a laptop at the head of the table, or a Zoom or Teams meeting with directors dialling in: each produces a file you download and upload. Files up to 500 MB go into the box on this page; a longer video recording continues on the main upload page.
Minutes record decisions
Good minutes say what was resolved, not every word of the debate. The brief sets out the takeaways and the resolutions, and the list of names, figures and dates gives you the amounts approved and the deadlines set, so you can write the minutes in the house style.
The AGM in one file
An annual general meeting with reports, member questions and voting goes in as one recording up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Chapters mark each report and the question session, so a member's question and the chair's answer are easy to find when the draft minutes are queried.
A year, worked out
A single AGM of 2 hours is 120 minutes from the $4 pack of 300 minutes.
Why minutes take so long
The secretary has to take part, take notes and get every resolution word for word.
✗ Notes at the table
Notes taken while also handling papers and the agenda leave gaps, and the recording is too long to replay before the draft is due.
- Resolution wording reconstructed later
- Figures checked against slides, not the discussion
- Hybrid audio no one replays
- AGM questions summarised from memory
- Drafts queried by directors weeks later
- Upload limits that refuse a long file
✓ The meeting as a document
The recording comes back with chapters, a brief and text to search when a director asks what was agreed.
- About 6 minutes for a 3-hour meeting
- Chapters per agenda item
- Directors named in the summary and quotes
- Resolutions, amounts and dates listed
- Chat to find where a matter was discussed
- DOCX ready for the minutes
Sample
Part of a board meeting, as text.
An illustrative sample written for this page; it does not come from any real board, company or director.
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
Board secretaries ask these first.
What about closed or confidential sessions?
That is the one thing to settle before you upload: if the board meets in a closed or confidential session, follow the board's decision on whether that part is recorded at all, and upload only the parts you are permitted to keep. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Can the brief replace the minutes?
No. It is a starting point; the minutes are approved by the board, so confirm the wording of each resolution against the recording before circulating the draft.
How quickly is a board meeting ready?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio: a 3-hour meeting in about 6 minutes, a 90-minute committee meeting in about 3.
Directors joined by video. Does that work?
Yes. Save the Zoom or Teams recording, download it and upload the file. Recording a meeting needs the consent the law where you are requires, so tell attendees at the start. WhipScribe works on the recording afterwards; no bot joins the live meeting.
What does a busier board cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire.
What can I export?
Five formats: TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. DOCX works best for minutes; TXT is handy for pasting resolutions into a register.
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