Transcribe an Arabic council meeting and draft the protocol from the full session.
An Arabic-language local council session in Israel, typically two to four hours of agenda items, debate and votes, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 3-hour session is text in roughly 6 minutes with Arabic detected automatically. The opening minutes are a free preview, and two 3-hour sessions, 360 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes.
For council secretaries and clerks
The session ends late at night. The protocol is due long before anyone wants to replay three hours of debate.
Agenda items as chapters
Every item, from approving the previous protocol to the budget debate and the closing questions, becomes a chapter with a timestamp. The brief summarises each decision.
Figures and votes in one list
Budget lines read aloud, tender dates, the count of each vote and the dates of the next sessions appear in a list with timestamps, ready to check against the official papers.
Public video, no download
If the session was streamed or posted on YouTube, paste the link and it is fetched directly. A long camera file from the chamber continues on the upload page.
A text to work from
This is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified or official record and not legal advice. The secretary writes and signs the protocol; the text makes it faster and settles disputed wording.
How protocols usually get written
Three hours of debate, a notebook and a deadline.
✗ Without a transcript
The clerk takes notes while also tracking the agenda, and a member later contests how a statement was recorded. Settling it means finding one minute inside a three-hour video.
- Notes that miss interruptions and replies
- Disputed wording with nothing to check against
- Tools that do not handle Arabic
- A large chamber video hard to share
- Budget figures copied by hand
- Protocols delayed by weeks
✓ With the full session as text
The recording goes in after the session and the Arabic text is ready in minutes, with chapters and the decisions listed.
- About 6 minutes for 3 hours
- A chapter for every agenda item
- Figures and votes with timestamps
- Members named in the summary
- DOCX to edit into the protocol
- A searchable archive of sessions
Sample
A council session in Arabic, from the budget item to the vote.
An invented excerpt for illustration; no real council or member is quoted. Gloss: we open the regular session, the first item is next year's budget; I ask the finance committee chair to present the report; who supports the proposal, please raise hands; the previous protocol is approved by majority; the next session is at the start of next month.
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
Arabic council meetings, answered.
How long does a 3-hour session take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes of processing per hour of audio. A 4-hour budget session takes about 8 minutes.
What does a year of monthly sessions cost?
Eleven 3-hour sessions, 1,980 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. A council office that records every week can also use the $19/month Workspace.
Members speak local dialect and switch into Hebrew. How does that come out?
The session is detected on its main language, Arabic, and English terms inside the speech are handled. Hebrew words such as office names and legal terms come through as heard, and dialect expressions are worth a check against the audio before they go into the protocol.
The chamber video is several gigabytes. Will it upload?
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A 3-hour video at 5 Mbps is about 6.75 GB, over that ceiling, so export the audio or a lower-quality copy first; an audio track of the same session is a small fraction of the size. Before a first pack, uploads go up to 5 GB.
Are the members named?
Yes, in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters, wherever a member is introduced or addressed by name. The transcript itself reads as continuous text.
Is the recording kept private?
Sessions are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. The text exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON for the council's own archive.
Related
More for council meetings.
Upload the last council session. The opening minutes are a free preview.
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