Transcribe council meeting recordings in the UK agenda item by agenda item.
A UK council meeting recording of 3 to 6 hours comes back in about 6 to 12 minutes, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. The first 20 minutes are free, a 4-hour full council meeting uses 240 minutes of the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and the brief lists the motions, outcomes and figures that draft minutes start from.
From webcast to draft minutes
The meeting ran all evening. The minutes do not have to.
Paste the webcast
Where the council publishes its meetings on YouTube, paste the link and the recording is fetched for you. A webcast hosted elsewhere can be downloaded and uploaded as a file, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Chapters by agenda item
The transcript is split into chapters with timestamps as the meeting moves through apologies, declarations, each report and each motion, so the planning item and the budget debate sit in separate sections.
A year of meetings, priced
A 4-hour full council meeting is 240 minutes, so two fit the $6 pack of 500. Twelve monthly meetings of that length are 2,880 minutes, which calls for the $24 pack of 5,000 and leaves room for committees. Every price here is in US dollars.
What draft minutes need
The brief lists what was moved, by whom, and what happened to it. Members and officers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, and the figures and dates spoken during each item are gathered in one list.
Why council recordings are hard to use
A public meeting is on record. Finding what was said in it is another matter.
✗ The webcast and a notepad
Clerks, reporters and residents scrub through hours of webcast to find one item, and an archived webcast cannot be searched by word.
- Scrubbing four hours for one item
- Player captions that cannot be exported
- Minutes drafted from partial notes
- Upload limits shorter than the meeting
- Long silences during adjournments
- No list of the figures mentioned
✓ A searchable meeting
The whole meeting comes back as text with chapters, a brief and the speakers named in the summary.
- Roughly 8 minutes per 4-hour meeting
- First 20 minutes at no charge
- $6 for 500 minutes, nothing monthly
- Chapters for each agenda item
- Motions and figures listed
- SRT to caption the webcast
Sample
A full council meeting, at the agenda items.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not taken from any real council meeting. Timestamps show where each item falls in a long evening.
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 4-hour council meeting take?
Roughly 8 minutes, since each hour of audio takes about 2. A 6-hour budget meeting takes about 12. The transcript stays in your Library when it finishes.
What does a year of meetings cost?
A single 4-hour meeting takes 240 minutes from the $6 pack of 500 minutes. If you transcribe twelve full council meetings and ten 3-hour committees, that is 4,680 minutes, on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. The opening 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor.
Can a 6-hour meeting go in as one file?
Yes. One file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Uploads up to 2 GB work before the first pack; a bigger file, or a YouTube live replay longer than 6 hours, starts once a pack is on the account.
Will it handle Welsh or other languages?
99 languages are detected automatically, Welsh included. A meeting that switches between English and Welsh is detected on its main language, so check the passages in the other one.
Can I write the minutes from it?
The brief gives you the structure: items, motions, outcomes and actions, with members named in the summary. Start from the brief and the DOCX of the transcript, and check each decision against its timestamped passage before the minutes are approved.
Which exports are there, and where is the recording processed?
Downloads come as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can remove a meeting at any time.
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