Transcribe a 90-minute town hall and publish the record the same week.
A 90-minute town hall is transcribed in about 3 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, either from the YouTube replay link or from a recording file of a few hundred MB. The session uses 90 of the 500 minutes on the $6 pack, and the first 20 minutes are free.
From the hall to the public record
Every question from the floor, and every answer given to it.
Civic or company, same file
A civic town hall is often streamed to YouTube or a local access channel; a company town hall lives in a Teams or Zoom recording. A YouTube replay, including a live one, is pasted as a link. A Facebook stream or a meeting-app recording is downloaded and uploaded; ninety minutes of video is usually a few hundred MB.
About three minutes
Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so ninety minutes is ready in roughly three. A town hall that overruns to two and a half hours takes about five, and the time to read it back is the only real wait.
A season of sessions
A monthly ninety-minute town hall uses 1,080 minutes a year, which the $12 pack of 2,000 covers with 920 left. A company holding one every quarter uses 360 minutes, inside the $6 pack. A district holding four listening sessions a month, 4,320 minutes a year, fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
Questions, answers, chapters
Opening remarks, each presentation and the public comment period become chapters with start times. The brief lists the figures, dates and places mentioned and the questions the meeting answered. Officials and presenters are named in the summary and key quotes, and residents who state their name at the microphone are named too.
Why town halls leave no record
Ninety minutes of public questions, and the archive is a video nobody will rewatch.
✗ Video only
The meeting is streamed, archived, and summarised in two paragraphs that leave most questions out.
- Residents asking what was promised
- Auto-captions that miss street names
- Staff scrubbing video for one answer
- A summary written days later
- No searchable record of public comment
- Hard of hearing residents left out
✓ A written record of the meeting
The town hall as text, searchable, with each part of the evening easy to find.
- About 3 minutes from link to text
- First 20 minutes free
- Room for five sessions on $6
- Public comment as a chapter
- Figures and dates in the brief
- SRT and VTT for the archived video
Sample
The public comment period of a community town hall.
Illustrative lines written for this page; they are not from any real town hall or official. Timestamps 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
Ninety-minute town halls, the questions we hear.
How long does a 90-minute town hall take to transcribe?
Roughly 3 minutes, at about 2 minutes per audio hour. Paste the link once the replay is available and the text is ready shortly after.
Can I paste the link to the broadcast?
Yes. YouTube links, including live-stream replays, are fetched directly, as are Vimeo and Google Drive share links. A stream saved on Facebook or a local access channel's site is downloaded and uploaded instead.
What does a year of town halls cost?
One ninety-minute session: the first 20 minutes free, then the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A monthly series uses 1,080 minutes a year and fits the $12 pack of 2,000. Credits never expire, so a summer break leaves nothing to waste.
Will residents at a floor microphone be picked up?
Speech into a microphone on the room's sound system comes through well. Comments shouted from a seat without a microphone may be faint or partial, and applause and crowd noise are not transcribed.
Is the transcript an official record?
It is a working text for staff, reporters and residents. If your body keeps formal minutes or a verbatim record by rule, use the transcript as the draft and have the clerk review it.
Which exports are there, and is the recording kept private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, with SRT or VTT ready for the archived video. The recording is transcribed on our own servers and not used to train any model.
Related
Public and company meetings
Paste the town hall replay. Publish what was said, not a summary of it.
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