Transcribe council meeting recordings from Israel, start to adjournment.
A council meeting in Israel that runs three to six hours transcribes in about 6 to 12 minutes, in Hebrew, with decisions and amounts gathered into a brief you can turn into minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers a six-hour meeting with time to spare.
From recording to minutes
The meeting ran past midnight. The minutes are due on Sunday.
A first draft of the minutes
The brief sets out what was decided, the amounts approved and the dates set. Whoever writes the minutes starts from that list and checks it against the transcript, instead of rebuilding the evening from notes.
Every agenda item findable
Chapters mark each agenda item as it was discussed, including the ones taken out of order. A resident asking about one planning item can be sent the timestamp rather than the whole recording.
Long evenings in one file
A six-hour meeting is one upload, and a single file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. If the meeting was streamed on YouTube, paste the link instead of downloading anything.
A year of meetings
Twelve monthly meetings of five hours each come to 3,600 minutes. That fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, which also covers the committee meetings that fall between them.
Why council recordings sit unread
A public meeting recording is only public if people can find things in it.
✗ The usual archive
Recordings are posted, and nobody outside the room has the hours to watch them.
- Six hours of video with no index
- Minutes written days later from memory
- Votes that are hard to find again
- Residents asking the clerk to look things up
- Captions that cannot keep up with crosstalk
- Old meetings that cannot be searched at all
✓ A meeting people can read
The full meeting as text, with the decisions surfaced and each one tied to its moment.
- Roughly 2 minutes of processing per hour
- A chapter for each agenda item
- Decisions and figures in the brief
- Council members named in the summary and quotes
- Chat that answers a resident's question
- DOCX for minutes, VTT for the posted video
Sample
A council meeting, late in the agenda.
Illustrative only. This excerpt was written for this page and is shown in English; a Hebrew meeting comes back as Hebrew text.
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
- Unlimited AI chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Council meetings in Israel, answered.
How long does a six-hour council meeting take?
About 12 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A three-hour meeting is ready in about 6.
What does one meeting, or a year of them, cost?
Six hours is 360 minutes and fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes, about $0.72 per hour. A year of monthly five-hour meetings is about 3,600 minutes and fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, around $0.29 per hour. Nothing renews, and every figure is in US dollars.
Will a long meeting video upload?
Before the first pack, files up to 2 GB upload. After that, one file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A YouTube recording of the meeting can be pasted as a link, and a live replay over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account.
Is Hebrew transcribed?
Yes. Hebrew is detected automatically, as one of 99 languages. Remarks made in a second language during a mainly Hebrew meeting are handled as part of the Hebrew transcript, so check those before quoting them in the minutes.
Can I make the minutes from this?
The brief and chapters are a working draft of the minutes, and the clerk still decides what goes into the official version. Each decision links back to a timestamp, which makes that check quick.
Which formats, and where does the recording go?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON come from each meeting. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the council can delete a meeting's audio once its minutes are approved.
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