Transcribe a 2-hour school board meeting What the board decided, and what parents said.
A 2-hour school board meeting is 120 minutes and is transcribed in about 4 minutes; a phone recording from the audience is usually under 150 MB, while a downloaded livestream video can run to several gigabytes. One meeting uses 120 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack, and the opening minutes are free on a first visit.
Board meetings
For parents, reporters and district staff.
Who brings these recordings
Parents who missed the meeting, local reporters on deadline, PTA officers writing a newsletter and district staff drafting minutes all start from the same two hours. Some have the district's YouTube replay; others have a voice memo recorded from the third row.
Link or file
Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link to a published board meeting, or a Google Drive link a colleague shared. A recording from a district's own streaming portal is downloaded first. A phone memo in M4A uploads straight from the phone's browser. A meeting split into an open session and a closed session usually arrives as two recordings; each one is transcribed on its own, with its own chapters.
What the meeting becomes
A brief with the main decisions and takeaways, chapters for each agenda item from the superintendent's report to public comment, and the budget figures, dates and policy numbers mentioned. Board members and speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
A school year of meetings
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Credits never expire.
Following the board
Why two hours of school board are hard to report on.
✗ Waiting for the minutes
Approved minutes arrive weeks later and record motions, not the discussion parents came for.
- Public comments reduced to a name
- Budget figures quoted from memory
- A replay with no index
- A long video no free tool accepts
- Phone audio nobody has time to replay
- No text to share with other parents
✓ The meeting, readable the same night
Every agenda item as text, with timestamps to check.
- 120 minutes per file or link
- Text in about 4 minutes
- Agenda items as chapters
- Figures and dates listed
- Speakers named in the summary
- DOCX ready to share
Sample output
An hour into a school board meeting.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real board.
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
2-hour school board meetings, answered.
How long until the transcript is ready?
About 4 minutes for a 2-hour meeting; speed runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The public proof page lists a 9.31-hour recording completed in 1,033 seconds, so a parent can read the meeting the same evening.
I recorded it on my phone from the audience. Is that good enough?
Usually, yes, as long as the speakers come through the room's sound system. Comments from the floor without a microphone may be faint. Make sure recording is allowed at the meeting before you start.
Is the transcript an official record?
No. It is an AI transcript to work from; the board's approved minutes are the official record.
What does a school year of board meetings cost?
Ten 2-hour meetings come to 1,200 minutes and fit the $18 pack (3,000 minutes). Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
The downloaded video is 4 GB. What now?
Before a first pack, uploads already go up to 5 GB per file; a bigger file needs a split or an audio-only export. If the meeting is on YouTube, paste the link and skip the download.
Which languages and exports are supported?
99 languages are detected automatically, including Spanish-language comments in an English meeting, which are handled on the meeting's main language. You can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, and board recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
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