Transcribe a Cantonese community meeting and give every member the same record of what was said.
A 2.5-hour Cantonese community meeting recorded in Canada comes back as Chinese text in about 5 minutes, with Cantonese detected automatically and the first 20 minutes free. Six such meetings, 900 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000; three of them, 450 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500.
For the association secretary
Older members speak Cantonese, younger ones answer in English. The record has to hold both.
Both generations in one file
The meeting is detected as Cantonese and English replies inside it are handled, so the transcript follows the room as it switches.
Elections without disputes
Chapters mark nominations, the count and the result, each with a timestamp, so the outcome can be checked against the recording if anyone asks.
Rent, fees and dates listed
Names, dollar amounts and dates said aloud, the new membership fee, the date of the building inspection, are pulled out for the minutes.
The recording you already have
A phone on the head table works; so does the hall's mixer recording. Long video of the meeting goes through the upload page. Put the phone near the chair and the treasurer, who usually do most of the speaking, and ask members to use the microphone for questions.
What goes wrong
Members remember the same meeting three different ways.
✗ Without a transcript
Notes in a notebook, a recording nobody replays, and the minutes circulated weeks late. When a fee or a rule changes, members who were not in the room hear it second-hand and often get the figure wrong. Disputes about elections drag into the following year.
- Minutes written from scattered notes
- Election results questioned later
- Members abroad with no way to follow
- English-only tools that skip Cantonese
- Amounts misremembered
- Three hours replayed to check one point
✓ With the transcript
A full Chinese text with chapters, ready to turn into minutes the same evening. Members abroad or at work read the brief, the secretary drafts minutes from the chapters, and anyone who questions a vote is pointed to the minute it was taken. The association's records stop depending on one person's notebook.
- About 5 minutes for a 2.5-hour meeting
- Chapters at each agenda item
- Chair and speakers named in the summary
- Amounts and dates listed
- A chat to answer members' questions
- Six meetings on $12
Sample output
A Cantonese association meeting, at the fee vote.
Written for this page as an illustration; not from any association. In English: 'Today's first item is the membership fee'; 'The fee goes up to thirty dollars a year'; 'Can the minutes have an English version too?'; 'Agreed, the secretary will handle it.'
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.
How long does a 2.5-hour meeting take?
About 5 minutes. A 90-minute committee meeting takes about 3, since the rate is roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio.
How many meetings does each pack cover?
At 150 minutes a meeting, three fit the $6 pack of 500 and six, 900 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 with room for an AGM. A year of monthly 2.5-hour meetings, 1,800 minutes, also fits the $12 pack. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free to see the opening of a meeting as text.
Can it write the minutes in English?
The transcript is in the language spoken. The brief, chapters and the chat help the secretary write English minutes from it, and the chat can answer a question about what was decided.
Some members speak Mandarin. Does that matter?
The recording is detected on its main language, Cantonese for these meetings. Read any long Mandarin passages carefully when you check the minutes.
The hall recording is long and large. Will it upload?
One file may be up to 10 hours or 5 GB; before a first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB. Audio from a phone or recorder is usually under 200 MB for a whole meeting. At 64 kbps, an hour of phone audio is about 28.8 MB, so a 2.5-hour meeting is roughly 72 MB and fits the 500 MB upload box on this page.
Is it private, and is it official?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. The transcript is an AI working draft, not official minutes; the association adopts its minutes as usual. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON.
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