Transcribe a French board meeting in Canada decisions and figures, in French.
A board meeting held in French in Canada, often two to four hours long, is transcribed here in French in about 4 to 8 minutes, and the language is detected without you choosing it. The first 20 minutes are free, and a 4-hour meeting uses 240 of the 500 minutes in a $6 pack, so two such meetings fit one pack.
From the boardroom recording
The secretary writes the minutes from text, not from a four-hour replay.
One file for the whole sitting
A meeting that opens at 9 and closes after lunch goes in as one recording, up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A phone on the table, a conference speakerphone or a video call recording all work; upload the file on upload page.
The agenda as chapters
Adoption de l'ordre du jour, the financial statements, the committee reports, varia: each change of item becomes a chapter with a start time, so the secretary can check one resolution without hunting through the afternoon.
Every figure written out
Budget amounts, percentages, dates of the next meeting and the names of the people moving and seconding are pulled into a list beside the transcript. Check that list against the board package before the minutes go out.
Ask what was decided
Type a question in English or French, such as what the board decided about the capital budget, and the chat answers from the transcript with the timestamp of the passage.
Why French board minutes take so long
A bilingual board, a long agenda and a secretary taking notes by hand.
✗ Minutes from handwritten notes
The secretary is also trying to follow the debate.
- Amounts misheard or skipped
- Who moved the motion, unclear
- Four hours of audio to scrub through
- Services that assume English
- Short upload limits on long files
- A subscription for a monthly meeting
✓ Minutes from the transcript
The whole sitting as searchable French text.
- Four hours back in about 8 minutes
- French found without a setting
- Chapters per agenda item
- Directors named in the summary
- Figures and dates listed
- Minutes on a pack that never expire
Sample
A French board meeting, as the text comes back.
This illustrative sample was written for this page and does not come from any real board or organisation. Labels mark parts of the meeting, not people.
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
French board meeting recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 4-hour meeting take to come back?
Plan on roughly 8 minutes. Processing runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 2-hour meeting is ready in about 4. You can close the tab; the transcript waits in your Library. If the meeting was recorded in two parts, upload both; each comes back with its own chapters and summary.
What does a year of board meetings cost?
Ten meetings of 3 hours each come to 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 200 left over. A single 4-hour meeting fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Prices are in US dollars and credits do not expire.
Some directors switch to English. Is that a problem?
The recording is detected on its main language, here French, and the English passages are handled inside the same transcript. Read the switched passages once before you quote them in the minutes. Names of organisations and acronyms said quickly are the other place to look twice.
Is the transcript the official minutes?
No. It is a working text with timestamps that the secretary drafts the minutes from. The board still adopts its minutes the way it always has.
How big can the recording be?
One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a pack is on the account, uploads stop at 2 GB, so a long video of the meeting may need a pack first; an audio-only file of 4 hours is far smaller. A phone recording placed in the middle of the table usually picks up directors at both ends better than a laptop at the head of it.
Which formats come out, and who sees the recording?
Download the text as TXT or DOCX for the minutes, SRT or VTT if the meeting video needs captions, or JSON for an archive. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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