Transcribe a 5-hour council meeting and find any agenda item in seconds.
A 5-hour council meeting is 300 minutes of audio, and pasting the video link the council published returns it as timestamped text in about 10 minutes; a downloaded copy of the video would usually be several gigabytes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
A long night in chambers
The whole meeting in writing, from the call to order to adjournment.
Start from the public video
Many councils stream their meetings to YouTube or Vimeo and leave the replay up. Paste that link and we fetch the audio; there is no need to download a multi-gigabyte video first. If your council only offers a download, upload the file: up to 5 GB, with or without a pack.
Agenda items, not one long scroll
Chapters follow the order of business: consent items, each public hearing, the public comment period, staff reports and the votes. Each has a start time, so a reporter or resident can open the zoning item at the third hour without sitting through the first two.
Ten minutes, then search it
At roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, 300 minutes is ready in about 10. The brief lists the motions, the amounts and the dates that were said, and the chat answers a question such as how the budget amendment was explained, with the passage and its timestamp.
A year of meetings
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. The $32 pack of 6,000 minutes covers 20 five-hour meetings, most of a year of twice-monthly sessions.
Why council videos go unread
Five hours of public business, and only the video to show for it.
✗ The meeting video alone
It is public, but finding one vote means scrubbing through hours of roll calls and presentations.
- Hours of video to find one item
- Auto captions with no agenda structure
- Minutes that record outcomes, not debate
- Public comment hard to quote
- Tools that cap at an hour
- A multi-gigabyte download first
✓ The meeting as text
Paste the link and read the meeting the way the agenda was written.
- About 10 minutes for 300 minutes
- Each agenda item as a chapter
- Motions and amounts listed
- Councillors named in the summary and quotes
- DOCX for the minutes draft, SRT for the video
- Packs from $4 for 300 minutes
Sample
A few moments from a 5-hour council meeting.
Illustrative: written for this page, not taken from any real council or meeting. Timestamps count from the start of the video.
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
A 5-hour council meeting, the common questions.
How long does a 5-hour council meeting take?
About 10 minutes after the video is fetched, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. Keep the tab open: the transcript appears there the moment it is ready, and it stays in your Library.
What does 300 minutes cost?
One meeting takes 300 of the 300 minutes in the $4 pack. On your first recording the opening minutes are a free preview, and the pack transcribes the rest from where the preview ended. Credits never expire, and there is no subscription.
Can I use it to draft minutes?
Yes, as a starting point: the brief, chapters and listed motions make a first draft quick to write. The approved minutes remain the council's record; this is an AI transcript for working from, not an official one.
Our meetings sometimes run past ten hours. What then?
One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A longer meeting goes in as two files, split at a recess, and each comes back with its own chapters and timestamps.
Does it handle public commenters and remote callers?
Everyone audible on the recording is transcribed, including callers piped into the room's audio. Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters where the meeting identifies them, for example when the chair calls the next commenter.
What comes out, and is the recording private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one pass, with 99 languages detected automatically for meetings with interpretation. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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Paste the meeting link. Every agenda item, searchable in about 10 minutes.
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