Transcription for policy analysts hearings and committee sessions, as searchable text.
A 3-hour committee hearing comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with each witness's testimony in its own chapter and the figures and bill numbers gathered in a brief. A legislative session's worth of 30 hearings at 2.5 hours each is 4,500 minutes, which fits the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes; the opening minutes are a free preview.
What analysts sit through
The useful sentence is somewhere in hour three.
Getting the hearing in
Hearings archived on YouTube can be pasted as a link. Many legislatures and agencies host video on their own sites, often with a download option; download the file and upload it, since only YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Kick, Google Drive and podcast links are fetched directly. Audio-only archives upload as they are.
Testimony you can search
Chapters mark each witness and each member's questions, and the brief lists the numbers, dates and organisations that were said. A chat over the transcript answers 'what did the agency witness say about the implementation date?' with the passage and its timestamp.
The caution: quote the official record
An AI transcript is a working copy, not the official or certified record. Before a quote goes into a brief, a comment letter or an article, check it against the video at the timestamp, and cite the official record or video where the body publishes one.
A whole session, in bulk
Hearing files are long but rarely huge as audio. The box on this page takes up to 500 MB; a larger video continues on the main upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. A floor session longer than 10 hours goes up as two files.
Where analysis stalls
Watching hearings at double speed is still watching hearings.
✗ Hearing by hearing
Hours of video, a notepad and a cursor dragged back and forth.
- Watching every witness to find one exchange
- Notes that miss the exact figure
- No text to search across hearings
- Official transcripts posted weeks later, if at all
- Hand-built timelines of who testified
- Per-seat tools for a seasonal workload
✓ Hearings as data
Each hearing as text the day it happens, ready to search and compare.
- About 2 minutes per hour of video
- A chapter for each witness
- Figures and dates listed in the brief
- Timestamps back to the video
- $32 for 6,000 minutes, no expiry
- JSON with timings for your own tools
Sample
Part of a committee hearing, as text.
Illustrative only: written for this page and not from any legislature's hearing.
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
Policy analysts' questions, answered.
How long does a hearing take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 3-hour hearing is ready in about 6 minutes. Public proof: 9.31 hours were transcribed in 1,033 seconds, shown at /proof/long-files.
What does a legislative session cost?
Thirty hearings at 2.5 hours each are 75 hours, or 4,500 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. A week of five 3-hour hearings, 900 minutes, fits the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so the balance waits for the next session.
Can I cite the transcript?
Use it to find and read the testimony, then cite the official record or the video. It is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified or official transcript.
Are witnesses and members identified?
Witnesses and members are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters when the chair introduces them or they state their names. A hearing that follows the usual formality is easy to follow this way.
Which link types work directly?
YouTube (including live replays), Vimeo, Twitch, Kick, Google Drive share links and podcast or RSS feeds. A video player on a legislature or agency site is downloaded first, then uploaded.
What exports are there?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. JSON carries the timings for your own analysis; DOCX suits a memo. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related long recordings
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