Transcribe a 90-minute council meeting and quote the vote from the text, with a timestamp.
A 90-minute council meeting is transcribed in about 3 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio; many councils post the stream on YouTube or Vimeo, so you paste a link, and an audio file of the meeting is around 85 MB. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For clerks, reporters and residents
Ninety minutes of local government, item by item, in plain text.
Where council recordings live
Many councils stream to YouTube or Vimeo and keep the archive there: paste the link and nothing needs downloading. Some publish through an agenda-management or webcasting site instead; use its download option if there is one, then upload the file. A clerk's own recorder file uploads directly.
Three minutes after the gavel
At about 2 minutes per hour of audio, the meeting is text within roughly three minutes of the file being ready. A reporter on deadline can check a quote before the story is filed.
A year of meetings
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
What the brief pulls out
Agenda items become timestamped chapters. The motions, dollar amounts, street addresses, ordinance numbers and dates spoken are listed, and the members who moved and seconded are named in the summary and key quotes. It is a working transcript, not the approved minutes.
Why council meetings are hard to follow
The decision took two minutes. Finding it takes the whole video.
✗ Following from the stream
The archive is public, but nobody can search a 90-minute video for one amount.
- Scrubbing for the item you care about
- Vote counts missed while taking notes
- Public comment summarised in a line
- Minutes posted weeks after the meeting
- Residents relying on second-hand accounts
- No captions on the archive
✓ Following from the transcript
The meeting as text, with agenda chapters and every number on a list.
- Back in about 3 minutes
- Agenda items as chapters
- Amounts and addresses in the brief
- Quote any line with its timestamp
- DOCX for the clerk, SRT for the archive
- A year of monthly meetings on $18
Sample
From the middle of a regular council meeting.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real council, member, resident or address. Timestamps start at the beginning 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
Ninety-minute council meetings: what people ask.
How fast is a 90-minute council meeting transcribed?
About 3 minutes, because processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. If you paste a stream link, add the time it takes to fetch the video.
The council posts on YouTube. Can I paste the link?
Yes. YouTube, including live replays, Vimeo and Google Drive share links are fetched directly. If your council uses a webcasting portal, download the recording where the portal allows it and upload the file.
Can I use the transcript as the official minutes?
No. It is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified or official record, and the minutes remain what the council approves. It is useful for drafting and for checking what was said, and it is not legal advice.
What does covering a council for a year cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Some meetings run long. Is there a limit?
One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Uploads up to 5 GB start right away; a bigger video file can go in as its audio alone. A pasted link needs no upload at all.
Is anything kept or reused?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete the file and transcript at any time.
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