Transcribe a 4-hour union meeting so members on the other shift read what was decided.
A 4-hour union meeting is 240 minutes of audio and comes back as timestamped text in about 8 minutes; a phone or recorder file of it is usually 100 to 250 MB, and a Zoom or Teams video is often 1 to 3 GB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For branch secretaries and stewards
A long membership meeting, readable by everyone who could not be in the hall.
Members who work the other shift
Night workers, part-timers and members on leave miss the meeting itself. The brief gives them the thesis, the takeaways and the questions the meeting answered, with chapters to jump straight to the part on pay, rotas or the ballot timetable.
Report-backs with the numbers
Negotiating updates are full of figures: percentages offered, back-pay dates, headcounts, deadlines for a ballot. The brief lists the numbers and dates said aloud, each with a timestamp, so the newsletter quotes the officer's figure rather than someone's notes.
From the hall or the call
Branch meetings are recorded on a phone at the top table, a small recorder, or as a Zoom or Teams meeting for remote members. Upload the file, or paste a Google Drive, YouTube or Vimeo link if the branch keeps recordings there.
A year of branch meetings
The 4-hour meeting uses 240 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack. Eleven monthly 2-hour meetings add 1,320 minutes; with the long one, the year totals 1,560 minutes, which the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes covers with 1,440 to spare. Credits never expire between meetings.
Why decisions get lost
Four hours of debate, and the members who were not there hear a version of it.
✗ Word of mouth
What was decided reaches the shop floor second-hand, a week late and slightly changed.
- Motions reported from memory
- Offer figures repeated wrongly
- Absent members out of the loop
- Minutes drafted from patchy notes
- Hours of audio nobody replays
- Disputes about what was agreed
✓ The meeting in writing
The recording goes in once and the branch has a text, chapters and a brief to circulate.
- About 8 minutes for 240 minutes
- Debate and votes as chapters
- Officers named in the summary
- Figures and dates listed
- DOCX for the minutes
- 260 or more minutes left
Sample
Lines from a long branch meeting.
Illustrative sample written for this page; no real union, branch, employer or member appears in it. Times count from the start of 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 $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
Union meetings: the questions branches ask.
How long does a 4-hour union meeting take to transcribe?
About 8 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. The text can be ready before the hall is cleared.
Do we need members' agreement to record?
Recording a meeting needs whatever consent the law where you are requires. Many branches announce the recording at the start and say how it will be used; check your own rules too.
What does a year of meetings cost?
One 4-hour meeting fits the $4 pack of 300 minutes, with a free preview of the opening minutes.
Is the transcript the official minutes?
No. It is an AI transcript for the secretary to work from, not a certified record and not legal advice on a dispute. The minutes remain the branch's own document.
Some members spoke in another language. Is that handled?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and English terms inside another language come through. A meeting that switches language is detected on its main language, so a long stretch in a second language is best uploaded as its own clip.
Who can see the recording and the text?
Only the account that uploaded it. The meeting is transcribed on our own servers and the recording is never used for training. Delete both after the minutes are approved if branch policy asks for that.
Related
Other membership and governance meetings
Upload the branch meeting. The opening minutes are a free preview.
Transcribe the union meetingOperated by Neugence Technology Pvt. Ltd. · contact@whipscribe.com · Security · Privacy · Terms