Transcribe council meeting recordings in Japan and start the minutes from text.
A council or assembly meeting in Japan that runs 3 to 6 hours goes in as one recording and comes back in about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 6-hour meeting is ready in roughly 12 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a 5-hour meeting uses 300 of the 500 minutes in a $6 pack.
From recording to minutes
Six hours of questions and answers, ready to write up the same afternoon.
Minutes start from a brief
The brief states what the meeting was about and its takeaways, and the chapters follow the agenda items with timestamps. The secretariat can start the minutes from those and check each line against the recording.
Twelve minutes for six hours
Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour. A 3-hour committee comes back in about 6 minutes and a 6-hour plenary in about 12, while you work on something else.
Motions and numbers in one list
Budget figures, vote counts, dates and the names of members who spoke are listed beside the transcript, so a reporter or clerk does not have to scrub through hours to find one amount.
What a year of meetings costs
A meeting a month at 5 hours each is 60 hours, or 3,600 minutes. The $24 pack holds 5,000 minutes and covers the year with 1,400 left, at $0.29 per audio hour.
Why meeting audio sits unused
Long civic recordings are posted but rarely read.
✗ Hours nobody replays
A meeting recording that lasts half a day is hard to quote from and slow to minute by hand. In many towns the video is posted for residents, yet the minutes still take weeks because someone has to listen to every hour.
- Minutes typed from memory or notes
- Replaying hours to check one answer
- Short free tiers that end within the hour
- Video files too large for basic tools
- No list of motions or amounts
- A subscription for monthly meetings
✓ The meeting, searchable
One upload gives you the full text, the agenda in chapters and the figures that were said. The clerk checks the draft against the audio instead of typing from nothing.
- Ready at around 2 minutes an hour
- Chapters for each agenda item
- Budget figures and dates listed
- Members named in the summary and quotes
- One-time packs, minutes kept for later
- DOCX ready for the minutes template
Sample
A council meeting, as it might come back.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page, not taken from any real assembly. It appears in English here; a meeting held in Japanese is returned in Japanese.
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 recordings from Japan, the common questions.
How long does a 6-hour council meeting take?
About 12 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 3-hour committee is usually done in about 6. The transcript is saved to your Library, so you can come back later.
What does one meeting cost, and what about a year of them?
A 5-hour meeting is 300 minutes and fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes with 200 left. Twelve monthly meetings of 5 hours come to 3,600 minutes, which the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers. Credits never expire and no subscription is needed.
How big can the meeting file be?
A meeting file may be as large as 5 GB and as long as 10 hours. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB; a larger video starts once a pack is on the account. If the meeting is posted on YouTube, paste the link and skip the upload.
What if the sitting ran past 10 hours?
Yes, as two files. Split at the recess between the morning and the afternoon and upload both parts.
Does it handle Japanese, and meetings that switch to English?
Japanese is one of 99 languages detected automatically. A meeting is detected on its main language, so a few English remarks inside a Japanese meeting are worth a quick check against the audio.
Which formats come out, and is the recording kept private?
A single run gives TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, so the clerk takes DOCX and the video team takes SRT. Public meeting or not, recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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