Transcribe court and tribunal hearings in New Zealand a full day on one timeline.
A day-long court or tribunal hearing in New Zealand, about six hours of recorded proceedings, comes back as text in about 12 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the 360-minute day with 140 minutes left. You get a timestamped working transcript to prepare from, with every witness on the same clock.
Preparing from the recording
A hearing day you can search and quote from while the next day's preparation is under way.
The whole day in one file
A hearing day of five to seven hours fits one upload, since one file holds 10 hours. Processing takes about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a recording collected at the end of the day is text before the evening's work begins.
Evidence by chapter
Chapters follow the shape of the day: openings, each witness's evidence, cross-examination and submissions. Each has a start time, so you can go straight to a witness's answer instead of replaying the morning.
Every date and figure
Dates, amounts, addresses and names given in evidence are pulled into one list with timestamps. When a figure in a submission does not match what a witness said, the timestamp settles it in seconds.
Priced per hearing day
One 6-hour day is 360 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A practice working from hearing recordings every week will use the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, about 83 hours, at $0.29 per audio hour.
Why hearing audio is hard to use
Six hours of proceedings, and you need one answer from the second witness.
✗ Notes and replay
Without text, checking a witness's words means finding the spot in a long recording and listening again.
- Handwritten notes from the back of the room
- Replaying hours to find one answer
- Recordings cut to fit upload limits
- Waiting days for a typed transcript
- Figures misheard and copied into submissions
- No index of who spoke when
✓ Text the same evening
The day comes back as searchable text with timestamps, for preparing, not for filing.
- Around 12 minutes for a 6-hour day
- Chapters per witness and submission
- Counsel and witnesses named in the summary
- Dates and amounts listed
- DOCX for case notes
- Deleted whenever you choose
Sample
A tribunal hearing, at the turning points.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page, and no real case, party or tribunal is quoted. Labels mark chapters, and participants are named in the summary and quotes.
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
Hearing recordings, the questions to ask first.
How long does a full hearing day take to transcribe?
About 12 minutes for a 6-hour day and about 14 for seven hours. Our public long-file run processed 9.31 hours of audio in 1,033 seconds, published at /proof/long-files.
What does a multi-day hearing cost?
A five-day hearing at six hours a day is 1,800 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes covers at $0.36 per audio hour. A single day fits the $6 pack. A first-time visitor sees the first 20 minutes free.
Can I file this as the official record?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from, not a certified court transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter, and not legal advice. Use it to prepare, check and search, and rely on the official record for anything filed or cited.
The hearing audio comes as several files per day. What do I upload?
Upload each file as it is. If you prefer one timeline, join them before uploading, as long as the result stays under 10 hours and 5 GB. Before a first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB per file.
Can it handle te reo Māori and interpreted evidence?
English is detected automatically and te reo Māori is among the 99 supported languages. The transcript follows the recording's main language, so check te reo passages and evidence given through an interpreter against the audio before quoting them.
Who can access a hearing recording?
Hearing recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Delete the recording and its transcript when the matter closes; exports are DOCX, TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON.
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