Transcribe hui recordings te reo Māori and English, as spoken.
A 4-hour hui recorded in te reo Māori and English is transcribed in about 8 minutes, detected on its main language with the switches between the two handled. The first 20 minutes are free, and two 4-hour hui come to 480 minutes, which fits on the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
For marae, trusts and rōpū
A long hui, held in two languages, kept as a written record.
Honest about te reo
te reo Māori is among the 99 languages detected automatically, but its accuracy trails the major languages: treat the te reo passages as a fast first draft, plan one review pass by someone fluent. English passages usually need less correction. Even with that review, checking a draft is far quicker than typing four hours of kōrero from nothing.
Hui in numbers
Two 4-hour hui are 480 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. A year of monthly 3-hour hui is 2,160 minutes on the $24 pack of 5,000, or six of them, 1,080 minutes, on the $12 pack of 2,000. Those prices are in US dollars, and unused minutes stay on the account.
Kōrero, not waiata
The speeches and discussion are transcribed. Waiata, chanting and recited karakia are not, so the timestamps show a gap where they were and the text picks up when the kōrero resumes.
A record of the kaupapa
The brief sets out the main kaupapa and what was agreed, chapters follow each speaker and topic with timestamps, and the names, dates and figures said aloud are listed. Each kaikōrero is named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. A hui filmed in high resolution continues on upload page.
Why hui records are thin
Four hours of kōrero, and the record is two pages of someone's notes.
✗ A note-taker's two pages
The note-taker misses the te reo passages they could not write fast enough, and the recording sits unheard. Months later, when the whānau or trust needs to know what was agreed, people remember it differently.
- Notes that miss whole speeches
- English-only tools that ignore te reo
- Recordings cut into pieces
- No timestamps to go back to
- Weeks before anyone types it
- Agreements remembered differently
✓ A draft of the whole hui
Every speech in text with timestamps, ready for a fluent reviewer the same day.
- Roughly 8 minutes for the full hui
- Both languages kept in one draft
- Waiata left out, kōrero kept
- Kaikōrero named in summary and chapters
- Agreements listed in the brief
- Two hui on the $6 pack
Sample
A hui moving between te reo Māori and English.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it does not come from any real hui or speaker. The te reo lines are generic phrases chosen to show the two languages in one transcript.
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
Hui recordings, answered.
How long does a 4-hour hui take?
Around 8 minutes, because the rate is close to 2 minutes for every audio hour. A 2-hour hui takes about 4. The proof page shows 9.31 hours of audio done in 1,033 seconds.
What does a year of hui cost?
Twelve monthly 3-hour hui are 2,160 minutes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Two 4-hour hui fit the $6 pack of 500, and the first 20 minutes are free so you can try a section first.
How long can one recording be?
Each file can hold up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever arrives first. A two-day hui of more than 10 hours goes in as one file per day. Until a pack is bought, a single upload tops out at 2 GB.
How well does it handle te reo Māori?
The recording is detected on its main language, and switches between te reo and English are handled. Accuracy in te reo is below that of English, so expect names, whakataukī and dialect words to need correcting in the review.
Are waiata and karakia transcribed?
Sung waiata, chanting and recited karakia are not transcribed; speeches and discussion are. If a karakia matters to the record, add it from the written text.
What can we download, and who sees the hui recording?
You get TXT and DOCX for the written record, SRT and VTT if the hui was filmed, and JSON with the timestamps. Hui recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. Record and share only with the agreement of those present.
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