Transcribe a Cantonese community meeting and write the minutes from text.
A 2-hour Cantonese community meeting recorded in Australia is transcribed in about 4 minutes, with Cantonese detected automatically and English words such as names of councils, grants or venues handled in the same pass. The first 20 minutes are free, and a year of eleven 2-hour meetings plus a 3-hour AGM, 1,500 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000.
For the honorary secretary
The meeting talked for two hours in Cantonese. The secretary needs the motions, the money and the dates.
The decisions, gathered
The brief lists what was discussed and decided, and the amounts, dates and names said aloud are collected: the hall booking, the grant figure, the date of the Lunar New Year lunch. Nothing has to be typed in Chinese by hand.
Chapters by agenda item
Chapters mark apologies, the treasurer's report, each motion and general business, so the secretary can jump to the item the president asks about.
Minutes in the language you keep
The transcript is in Cantonese, the way the meeting was held. The secretary drafts the minutes from it, in Chinese or in English, without replaying the recording.
Phone recordings are small
A voice memo at 64 kbps is about 28.8 MB an hour, so a 3-hour AGM is around 86 MB, far below the 500 MB the box on this page takes.
Why minutes take weeks
Volunteer secretaries write minutes from memory, and members dispute them at the next meeting.
✗ From memory and notes
A phone records the meeting, but nobody replays two hours of discussion to check what the treasurer actually said. The secretary is often a retiree volunteering their time, and typing Chinese from a recording is slow, tiring work.
- Minutes written days later
- Motions recorded without the mover
- Amounts noted from memory
- Members who left early with no record
- Tools that do not understand Cantonese
- Arguments about what was agreed
✓ From the transcript
Upload the recording that evening and draft the minutes from text. Members who missed the meeting can read the brief, and the president can quote the exact words of a motion when it comes back for confirmation.
- Cantonese text of the whole meeting
- Chapters for each agenda item
- Amounts, dates and venues listed
- Office bearers named in the summary
- Chat to find one remark quickly
- DOCX ready to edit
Sample output
A Cantonese association meeting, at the treasurer's report.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real association or member. In English: now the treasurer reports this year's accounts; the hall rent went up again this year; I move that next year's membership fee stays the same; agreed, then we vote by show of hands.
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
Cantonese community meetings, answered.
Does it understand Cantonese, not just Mandarin?
Cantonese is detected automatically as its own language. Members who switch into English for a word, an address or a whole sentence are handled in the same transcript, and the recording is detected on its main language. Older members who speak Toisanese or another regional variety may come through less cleanly, so read their contributions back.
How much does a year of meetings cost?
Eleven monthly 2-hour meetings use 1,320 minutes and a 3-hour AGM adds 180, for 1,500 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000. Three 2-hour meetings, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500. Credits never expire.
Can these be our official minutes?
Use the transcript to write the minutes; it is an AI transcript to work from, not an official or certified record. The committee still approves the minutes as usual.
Some members speak far from the phone. Will they be picked up?
Speech that is audible on the recording is transcribed; voices that are faint or drowned out by others come through less well. Putting the phone in the middle of the table, away from the urn and the air conditioner, helps more than anything else.
How long will it take?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio: roughly 4 minutes for a 2-hour meeting and 6 for a 3-hour AGM. The secretary can have the text before the tea and biscuits are cleared away.
Is the recording private?
Association meetings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON and keep it with the association's records.
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