Transcribe a 3-hour town hall and hold everyone to what they said.
A 3-hour town hall comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with each question from the floor and its answer as a chapter. The livestream replay link needs no upload, a downloaded video of that length can run 1.5 to 4 GB, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the meeting with 340 minutes left after the free first 20 minutes.
Three hours of open questions
When the line at the microphone runs long, the record should not.
Questions as chapters
Long town halls get long because of the questions. Each person at the microphone gets a chapter with a start time, a heading for the topic and the answer from the front, so the forty-third question is as easy to find as the first.
What was promised
The brief lists commitments, dates, budget figures and place names with the minute each was said. Panel members are named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters, and the chat over the transcript answers questions such as what was said about the library hours.
From the stream to the text
A town hall streamed to YouTube, including a live replay, can be pasted as a link. One streamed on another platform should be downloaded and uploaded here or on upload page. Recordings longer than 6 hours from a stream start once a pack is on the account; a 3-hour one starts straight away.
A record residents can read
Post the DOCX alongside the replay, add SRT captions to the video, and pull quotes from the brief for the newsletter. Applause, crowd noise and music before the start are not transcribed. For an organiser, the list of questions the meeting answered is a ready outline for the follow-up letter.
Why long town halls disappear
Three hours of video is a record in name only.
✗ The replay alone
The video goes up, and the follow-up is a few lines of notes.
- Late questions left out of the notes
- Commitments with no record of when they were made
- Captions with no names or punctuation
- A video too large to share by email
- Free tools cut off after the first hour
- Residents asking the same questions again
✓ The town hall as text
Every question and answer becomes searchable within minutes.
- The whole meeting as text in about 6 minutes
- A chapter for each question
- Commitments listed with timestamps
- Panel named in the summary
- Captions for the posted replay
- 320 of 500 minutes still on the $6 pack
Sample
Late in a 3-hour town hall.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from any real meeting. Times count from the start of the replay.
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 town halls, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour town hall take?
Roughly 6 minutes, as each audio hour takes about 2. From a livestream link there is nothing to upload first.
What does a series of town halls cost?
One 3-hour town hall uses 180 of the 500 minutes on the $6 pack, and two fit with 140 to spare. A campaign of six is 1,080 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers with 920 left. Credits never expire.
The downloaded video is 3 GB. Will it work?
It will once a pack is on the account, since files can then be up to 5 GB. Before a pack the limit is 2 GB, so paste the replay link instead, or save just the audio, which is about 175 MB.
Questions from the floor were hard to hear. What comes through?
Speech the microphone picked up is transcribed, and a question asked without a microphone may have gaps. Jump to its timestamp to listen again.
The meeting ran longer than 10 hours across a day. Can it be one file?
One file can be up to 10 hours, so a longer continuous recording goes in as two files.
Who else can see the recording?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete them at any time.
Related
Other public meetings
Send the town hall. Every question, about 6 minutes.
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