Transcribe a French parliamentary committee readable the same afternoon.
A committee sitting held in French, at the National Assembly of Québec or a House of Commons committee, often runs 2 to 3 hours, and a 3-hour sitting comes back here as French text in about 6 minutes. Paste the link where the video is public on YouTube or Vimeo, or upload the downloaded file; the first 20 minutes are free, and six 3-hour sittings, 1,080 minutes, fit on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
What the sitting becomes
A committee sitting in French, readable while the story is still current.
Link or file
Where the sitting is public on YouTube or Vimeo, paste the link and the video is fetched for you. Otherwise download the file where the broadcaster offers a download and upload it on upload page; one file can run 10 hours or 5 GB.
Each witness, summarised
The brief sets out each witness's main points and the members' questions. Witnesses and members are named as they were introduced, in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters.
Numbers on the record
Budgets, dates, article numbers and figures said aloud are listed beside the text, ready for a briefing note or a story.
Before the official record
Legislatures publish their own official record of proceedings. This is a working text for today, for a briefing, an article or a follow-up question, to be checked against the video wherever a quote matters.
Why following committees takes so long
Three hours of testimony to watch before you can write one paragraph.
✗ Watching the sitting through
Testimony goes at speaking pace, and so does catching up.
- Waiting days for the published record
- Scrubbing video for one exchange
- Notes that lose the exact wording
- Tools that expect English testimony
- Size limits on long video
- No search across a week of sittings
✓ Reading the sitting
The full sitting as timestamped French text.
- A 3-hour sitting in about 6 minutes
- YouTube and Vimeo links pasted
- A sitting of up to 10 hours per file
- Witnesses named in brief and chapters
- Figures and articles pulled out
- Captions from the same text
Sample
An extract from a committee sitting in French.
This illustrative extract was written for this page; it is not from any real committee, member or witness. Labels mark parts of the sitting, 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 committee sittings, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour sitting take?
Around 6 minutes. A day of hearings in one 8-hour video takes about 16. Committee video moves through at about 2 minutes per recorded hour. Each sitting uploaded as its own file gets its own summary, so a week of hearings reads as a stack of short briefs.
What does a week of committees cost?
Six 3-hour sittings come to 1,080 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Following committees through a longer stretch, say twenty such sittings or 3,600 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits do not expire between sessions.
Can I paste the link while the sitting is still live?
Paste it once the sitting has ended and the replay is up; YouTube live replays work. A video on a legislature's own player is downloaded first, where the site offers a download, then uploaded.
The debate moves between French and English. What comes back?
The sitting is detected on its main language and the switches are handled, so a French sitting with English testimony comes back as one transcript. Both languages are among the 99 detected automatically.
A sitting ran past 10 hours, or the file is huge. What then?
Over 10 hours, upload it as two files. Up to 2 GB uploads before a first pack; with a pack, files up to 5 GB go in. Audio extracted from the video is much smaller and transcribes the same.
Which exports does a sitting give, and who sees it?
A sitting exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Sittings you upload are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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