Transcribe council meetings in Singapore and draft the minutes from the brief.
A council or committee meeting recorded in Singapore comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 5-hour meeting is ready in roughly 10 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, the rest of a meeting that long fits on the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and the brief lists the decisions you need for the minutes.
What a long council meeting needs
Agenda item fourteen was at hour four. The minutes still have to record it.
Minutes start from the brief
Each meeting returns with a brief of the main outcomes and takeaways, chapters that track the agenda, and the amounts, dates and names that were said. The secretary starts drafting minutes from that list, then checks the wording against the full text.
Every motion has a time
When a member asks what exactly was agreed on the maintenance contract, search the transcript for it and play the audio from that timestamp. Disputes over wording get settled by listening, not by memory.
A meeting and a year of them
A 5-hour meeting is 300 minutes, comfortably inside the $6 pack of 500. Twelve monthly meetings averaging four hours come to 2,880 minutes, which the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers. Prices are in US dollars.
Members named where it counts
The chair and members are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, so the record shows who moved an item and who raised an objection. English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil are all detected without a setting.
Why council minutes take a week
A long meeting, one note-taker, and a recording nobody wants to replay.
✗ Notes and replay
The note-taker writes what they can while also following the discussion, then replays hours of audio to fill the gaps.
- Gaps where the discussion moved fast
- Replaying five hours to confirm one figure
- Agenda items merged in the notes
- No time reference for a disputed point
- Upload caps that refuse a long file
- A week before draft minutes go out
✓ The meeting as text
One upload gives you the full discussion, the agenda as chapters and a list of the decisions.
- About 10 minutes for 5 hours
- First 20 minutes free
- 500 minutes for $6 that never expire
- The chair and members named in the summary
- Decisions and figures pulled out
- DOCX to edit into minutes
Sample
A long council meeting, item by item.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any real meeting. The timestamps show where each agenda item sits in a long recording.
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 meeting recordings, answered.
How long does a 5-hour council meeting take to transcribe?
About 10 minutes. Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 3-hour meeting takes about 6 and a 6-hour one about 12.
What does a 5-hour meeting cost?
300 minutes from the $6 pack of 500 minutes, leaving 200 for the next meeting. A first council recording opens with 20 minutes free. Regular monthly meetings of four hours add up to 2,880 minutes a year, which fits on the $24 pack of 5,000.
The meeting was recorded on video. Is it too big?
A meeting file may run to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, and a larger video starts once a pack is on the account. A Google Drive or YouTube link works too, and nothing has to upload from your computer.
The meeting was recorded in two parts. Should I join them?
Two recordings can go in as two files, each with its own transcript. If you prefer one timeline, join them into a single file first, as long as the total stays under 10 hours.
Which languages does it detect?
99 languages, including English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil, with no setting to choose. A meeting that switches language is detected on its main language.
Can I export the transcript, and where is the audio processed?
The meeting exports to TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Council recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete them at any time.
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