Transcribe an English business meeting recorded in Japan so the people who were not in the room can act on it.
An English-language business meeting recorded in Japan, often one to three hours, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 2-hour meeting is text in roughly 4 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
For the person who writes up the meeting
When English is the second language in the room, a written record matters more, not less.
Decisions and owners in the brief
The brief states what the meeting was for and what it settled. The figures, deadlines and names spoken aloud are listed separately, ready for the follow-up email.
Agenda items as chapters
Each topic gets a chapter with a timestamp. A colleague in Osaka or a manager abroad reads the budget item without scrolling through the introductions.
Read it, then ask it
A chat over the transcript answers questions such as which supplier dates were agreed or what was said about the launch, and points to the place in the recording.
A day-long offsite in one file
A seven-hour strategy day is 420 minutes and fits the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. The upload box here takes 500 MB; a larger room recording continues on the upload page.
Why meeting notes fall short
Someone takes notes in their second language while trying to follow the discussion.
✗ Without a transcript
The minute-taker writes fast and misses half of it. Colleagues who joined late, or who follow spoken English more slowly than written English, ask for a recap that never comes.
- Notes that skip the numbers
- Action items remembered differently by each person
- Long meetings that short-limit tools refuse
- A recap email written from memory days later
- No way to search last month's discussion
- Overseas colleagues left guessing
✓ With a transcript
The meeting comes back as English text with chapters, the decisions and every figure, about four minutes after upload.
- Full text of a 2-hour meeting
- Chapters at each agenda item
- Prices, dates and names listed
- Participants named in the summary and key quotes
- Exports to DOCX for the minutes file
- A chat to check what was agreed
Sample output
A quarterly planning meeting held in English at an office in Japan.
These lines were written for this page as an illustration; no real company, client or person is quoted.
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 $4 (300 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
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
English business meetings in Japan, answered.
How fast is a 2-hour meeting transcribed?
About 4 minutes. A 90-minute meeting takes around 3, and an all-day recording of seven hours takes about 14, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio.
What does a month or a quarter of meetings cost?
Four 2-hour meetings are 480 minutes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Sixteen of them, a quarter of weekly meetings, are 1,920 minutes on the $18 pack of 3,000. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Packs are one-time, credits never expire, and prices are in US dollars. A team that records every week can also use the $19/month Workspace.
Some people switch into Japanese during the meeting. What happens?
The recording is detected on its main language, English in these meetings, from 99 languages detected automatically. A Japanese aside or a company name inside an English discussion stays in the same transcript. A meeting held mostly in Japanese is detected as Japanese.
Does a bot have to join our call?
No. Nothing joins a live call. Record the meeting the way you already do, in Zoom, Teams or on a room recorder, and upload the file afterwards.
Can we use the transcript as official minutes?
It is an AI transcript to work from, not a certified or official record. Most teams use it to draft the minutes quickly and to check what was said, then circulate the approved version.
Is a confidential meeting kept private?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You download the result as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON and keep it in your own files.
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