Transcribe a 4-hour hearing and find any testimony by the minute.
A 4-hour hearing is 240 minutes of audio, and it comes back as timestamped text in about 8 minutes, from an upload or a YouTube link. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest and keeps 260 minutes for the next session.
Four hours of a hearing
An afternoon of testimony, read and searched within the hour.
Streamed hearings go in as a link
Public bodies often stream hearings to YouTube and keep the replay there. Paste that link and nothing needs downloading. A recording from a court, a tribunal or a room recorder uploads as a file instead, usually an MP3, WAV or MP4.
The 240-minute sum
About 2 minutes of processing per audio hour puts four hours at roughly 8 minutes. Our proof page has a 4.94-hour run finished in 372 seconds. The hearing uses 240 of the $6 pack's 500 minutes and leaves 260, enough for a second session of the same length.
Every witness gets a chapter
Long hearings are a sequence of items, witnesses and submissions. Each becomes a chapter with a start time, and the speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so the evidence of one witness is easy to isolate. Large files go on upload page.
Not an official record
What you get is a timestamped AI transcript to work from. It is not a certified or official transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter, and not legal advice. Reporters, researchers and parties use it to find what was said and when, then cite the official record.
Why four hours goes unread
A public hearing is public, but four hours of it is not readable.
✗ Following the hearing on video
The replay is online, yet checking one answer means finding it in four hours of footage.
- Scrubbing a stream for one witness
- Auto captions you cannot download cleanly
- Official records published weeks later
- Paraphrased notes instead of the words used
- Splitting the replay to fit a tool
- No search for a name or a figure
✓ Following the hearing as text
Four hours becomes one document with chapters and a search box.
- Four hours of hearing, about 8 minutes
- Paste the YouTube link directly
- A free first 20 minutes to check the audio
- Chapters per witness and item
- Names, dates and figures from the hearing, collected
- SRT to caption the replay
Sample
Part of a four-hour hearing.
This sample is illustrative; it was written for this page and comes from no real hearing. Times shown are positions in the recording.
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
4-hour hearings, the common questions.
How quickly does a 4-hour hearing come back?
Roughly 8 minutes, since processing takes about 2 minutes per audio hour. A YouTube replay starts as soon as the link is pasted, with no download on your side.
What does 240 minutes cost?
It fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes and leaves 260. A body that holds a four-hour hearing every week, about 1,040 minutes a month, needs the $12 pack of 2,000. By comparison, the length we see most among paying uploads is 100 minutes, which on the $6 pack leaves 400, so five such recordings fit one pack.
How large is a four-hour hearing file?
Audio at 128 kbps for 14,400 seconds is 1,843 megabits, about 230 MB. Video at an average 1 Mbps is about 1.8 GB, still under the 2 GB that uploads before a pack; with a pack the limit is 5 GB.
The replay is longer than six hours with the breaks. Does that matter?
A single file may be as long as 10 hours. Stream replays longer than 6 hours, from YouTube Live, Twitch or Kick, start once a pack is on the account.
Can it handle testimony in more than one language?
The hearing's language is found automatically among 99, and a bilingual session is read on its main language. English and Tagalog in one recording are handled; with an interpreter, check the interpreted passages against the audio.
Which exports are there, and is the recording used for anything else?
You can download the hearing as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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Other long proceedings
Paste the link to the hearing. Search four hours in minutes.
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