Transcribe a 3-hour council meeting from the first item to the final vote.
A 3-hour council meeting takes about 6 minutes to transcribe and comes back with each agenda item and vote as a chapter. The webcast can be pasted as a YouTube link or uploaded as a file, typically 1 to 3 GB of video or about 175 MB of audio; the first 20 minutes are free and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the meeting with 320 left.
Three hours in the chamber
Every motion, amendment and vote, findable by item and minute.
Items, motions and votes
Council meetings run on the agenda: minutes, public questions, reports, motions and any amendments. Each becomes a chapter with its start time, and councillors and officers are named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters.
Figures said in the chamber
The brief lists the budget lines, dates, addresses and vote counts mentioned, each with its timestamp. A reporter can quote the exact figure, and a clerk drafting minutes can check what an amendment said.
Webcast, archive or audio
Paste the YouTube or Vimeo link if the council streams there. A video saved from the council's own archive goes in the box above or on upload page; files over 2 GB start once a pack is on the account. Closed sessions that were not recorded leave nothing to transcribe.
Not the minutes, but faster
This is a working transcript for residents, journalists and officers. The minutes the council approves stay the official record; this is what you read the evening of the meeting. Residents who could not attend can search it for their street, and officers can check a resolution's wording before the minutes are drafted.
Why council business stays hidden
The meeting is public. Three hours of webcast is not easy to read.
✗ Following by webcast
People watch the archive to find the one item that affects them.
- One planning decision in three hours of video
- Amendments read out once and gone
- Minutes arriving after the next meeting
- No search for a street name or a sum
- Downloads too big for most tools
- Captions with no names attached
✓ Following by text
The council meeting becomes chapters, a brief and a searchable transcript.
- About 6 minutes from the link
- Each item and vote as a chapter
- Figures and counts in the brief
- Councillors named in the summary
- Captions for clips you share
- A $6 pack keeps 320 minutes after one meeting
Sample
A motion in a 3-hour council meeting.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page, and not taken from any real council. Times count from the start of the webcast.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
3-hour council meetings, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour council meeting take?
About 6 minutes from a link or upload, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour.
What does a full year of council meetings cost?
Two 3-hour meetings a month use 360 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A full year of 24 meetings is 4,320 minutes; the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers it with 680 left for committees and special sessions.
Can this stand in for the approved minutes?
No. The minutes the council approves are the official record. This is a working transcript for reading, reporting and drafting.
The archive file is 3 GB. Can I upload it?
Yes, after a pack is added; the per-file ceiling is then 5 GB. Before a pack, uploads stop at 2 GB, so paste the stream link or upload the audio only.
What if a budget meeting ran past 10 hours?
Each file can run to 10 hours. A longer continuous recording is split into two files, each with its own brief and chapters.
Who can see the recording?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Delete them whenever you want.
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