Transcribe a Catalan council meeting in Spain and find every vote without rewatching the stream.
A 4-hour Catalan-language council plenary recorded in Spain is transcribed in about 8 minutes, with Catalan detected automatically and each point on the agenda as a chapter. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For council secretaries, reporters and group staff
The ple runs late into the evening. The text lets you check what each group argued the next morning.
The agenda as chapters
Every item on the ordre del dia, from the minutes of the last session to the motions and questions, gets a chapter with a timestamp.
Figures said in the chamber
Budget amounts, dates and votes mentioned aloud are collected in a list, the quickest way to check a number before quoting it.
A stream too big to download
Video at 4 Mbps is about 1.8 GB an hour, so a 4-hour session is near 7.2 GB, over the 5 GB file limit. Paste the YouTube link, or export the audio: MP3 at 128 kbps is about 230 MB for 4 hours and fits the box on this page.
Speakers in the summary
Councillors and the mayor are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so a group's position on a motion is easy to locate. Long sessions can also go through the upload page.
Why plenaries go unread
Four hours on a stream, and the one intervention you need is somewhere in the middle.
✗ The archived stream
The session sits on the council channel, and finding a single vote or answer means scrubbing through hours of video.
- Votes found by rewatching
- Quotes checked against memory
- Drafting the acta from scratch
- English-first tools that miss Catalan
- Video files over the upload limit
- Neighbours asking what was decided
✓ The plenary as text
Paste the link after the session and the Catalan text arrives with chapters and a list of decisions.
- Full Catalan text of the session
- Mayor and councillors named in the summary
- One chapter per agenda point
- Votes and amounts listed
- DOCX to draft from
- A chat to ask what was said on any motion
Sample output
A monthly plenary in Catalan, at the points reporters look for.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from a real council. In English: good afternoon everyone, we begin this month's ordinary plenary session; item five on the agenda is the approval of the budget amendment; our group will vote against because residents were not consulted; the session is adjourned, thank you very much.
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
Catalan council plenaries, answered.
How long does a 4-hour plenary take?
About 8 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes of processing per hour of audio. A 5-hour budget session is ready in about 10.
Some councillors speak Spanish. What happens to those parts?
The recording is detected on its main language, Catalan for most of these sessions, and English mixed into the speech is handled. In a plenary where groups switch between Catalan and Spanish, read the Spanish interventions against the stream before quoting them.
What does a year of plenaries cost?
Two 4-hour plenaries, 480 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Eight, 1,920 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes, and twelve, 2,880 minutes, fit the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes. Prices are in US dollars, one-time, and credits never expire.
Is this the official acta of the session?
No. It is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified or official record; the secretary still prepares and approves the acta in the usual way.
Can I paste the stream link instead of uploading?
Yes. YouTube links, including live replays, work without an upload, as do Vimeo and Google Drive links. Downloaded files can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, with or without a pack.
Which exports are there, and is the recording kept private?
The text downloads as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the transcript is yours to publish or keep.
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