Transcribe a 3-hour board meeting before the minutes are due.
A three-hour board meeting is 180 minutes of audio, and it comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free. A $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the meeting and leaves at least 320 minutes. Twelve monthly meetings of that length come to 2,160 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
What a three-hour board meeting becomes
The discussion behind each resolution, written down and easy to check.
Agenda items in order
Board meetings follow a set order: approval of the last minutes, the chief executive's report, finance, committee reports, matters for decision. The chapters mark each turn with a timestamp, so the secretary can draft item by item.
Resolutions and figures listed
The brief collects the names, numbers and dates said in the room: the amount approved, the date a report is due, the director who moved the motion. Each sits beside its timestamp, so the wording in the minutes can be checked against the audio.
Who raised what
Directors and officers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. When a director asks later what was said about the audit, the chat finds the passage and the minute it was said.
Closed sessions stay closed
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so a closed session feeds no model. Delete the recording and its transcript once the minutes are approved, and nothing about the meeting is kept after that.
Why minutes take so long
Three hours of discussion usually becomes two pages of minutes, written from memory.
✗ Minutes from memory
Without a transcript, the secretary relies on notes taken while also following the discussion.
- Handwritten notes and a long recording
- Replaying the audio to confirm a figure
- Disputes about what was agreed
- A free tool that stops after an hour
- Board papers discussed on an unknown server
- Minutes ready two weeks later
✓ Minutes from the transcript
The full meeting comes back as text, with the agenda as chapters and the decisions easy to find.
- About 6 minutes for the full agenda
- The first 20 minutes, free, to judge it
- Figures and dates with timestamps
- Officers and directors named in the key quotes
- Audio kept out of model training
- DOCX ready for the minute book draft
Sample
A board meeting, as text.
This sample is illustrative. It was made up for this page, represents no real board or company, and its times run from the start of the file.
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 $6 (500 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
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Three-hour board meetings, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour board meeting take to transcribe?
Roughly 6 minutes: three audio hours at about 2 minutes each. Upload it as the room empties and the text is ready before the directors have left the building.
What does a 3-hour board meeting cost, and a year of them?
One meeting uses 180 minutes of the $6 pack of 500. Twelve monthly meetings are 2,160 minutes, just over the $12 pack's 2,000, so the $24 pack of 5,000 is the fit, with 2,840 minutes left for committee meetings. A board office that records every week can use the $19 a month Workspace instead.
How large is a 3-hour meeting file?
A conference-room recorder or a phone produces about 80 to 170 MB of audio for three hours. A video call recording is larger, often 1 to 2 GB. Both upload before a pack, since the limit is 2 GB until a pack is on the account and 5 GB after.
The meeting went into a closed session halfway. Do I need two files?
Only if you stopped and restarted the recorder. One file up to 10 hours keeps the open and closed portions on the same clock, and you can delete the transcript once the minutes are signed.
Is the transcript the minutes?
No. It is the full text of the discussion, which the secretary uses to draft the minutes. The minutes the board approves remain the record.
Which languages and export formats are there?
The meeting's main language is detected automatically, from 99. TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON all come from the same run, with DOCX the usual choice for a minutes draft.
Related
Other long governance meetings
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