Transcribe kibbutz general assembly recordings every motion, every vote.
A two to four hour kibbutz general assembly, an אסיפה כללית, transcribes in about 4 to 8 minutes with Hebrew detected automatically. The first 20 minutes are free, two four-hour assemblies fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and a year of monthly three-hour assemblies, 2,160 minutes, needs the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
From the dining hall to the minutes
A long evening of debate deserves a record that members can read.
Motions, found again
Chapters fall where a new item on the agenda opens, and the brief lists the proposals, the amounts and the dates that were mentioned, so the secretary can find the wording of each motion.
Votes, with the moment they happened
Every line keeps its timestamp. When a member asks months later how a vote was put, the transcript shows the question as the chair read it and the time to play it back, which settles most disagreements quickly. Counts that were announced aloud appear in the text as they were said.
Twelve assemblies, counted
Twelve monthly assemblies of three hours are 2,160 minutes, just over what the $12 pack holds, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes is the one to buy and it still leaves room for special sessions.
Recorded on whatever was there
A phone on the front table, a hall sound system feeding a laptop or a video posted to a members' YouTube channel all work. Paste a YouTube or Google Drive link, or upload the file. Put the recorder near the chair and the floor microphone rather than at the back of the hall, since speech from a distance is the hardest part of any assembly to hear.
Why assembly recordings rarely help
When a decision is disputed months later, nobody wants to replay four hours.
✗ An assembly file left unplayed
The assembly was recorded, and that is where it stops.
- Four hours of audio for one disputed motion
- Minutes that summarise a debate in two lines
- Members who missed the evening and cannot follow
- Amounts and dates remembered differently
- Hall acoustics that make listening tiring
- No search across years of assemblies
✓ A record to read
The assembly becomes text that the secretary and members can work from.
- Processing at roughly 2 minutes per assembly hour
- Hebrew detected automatically
- A chapter for each סעיף on the agenda
- Proposals, sums and dates in the brief
- Chat to find what was said about one motion
- DOCX as the starting point for minutes
Sample
A general assembly, budget item.
This excerpt is illustrative and written for this page, not taken from any kibbutz. Hebrew is transcribed as Hebrew.
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
Kibbutz assemblies: questions before uploading.
How long does a four-hour assembly take?
Around 8 minutes for four hours, because each hour of audio takes about 2 minutes. A shorter two-hour assembly is ready in about 4, which means the secretary can start the minutes the same evening.
What do assemblies cost to transcribe?
A four-hour assembly is 240 minutes, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes holds two of them. Twelve monthly three-hour assemblies are 2,160 minutes, which is more than the $12 pack's 2,000, so a year's worth goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Packs are paid once in US dollars, and the minutes stay valid until they are used.
Is the assembly recording too large?
An assembly file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A first upload before any pack can be up to 2 GB, plenty for hours of phone audio. An assembly that went past 10 hours is uploaded as two files, split at a break.
Hebrew with some Arabic or English?
The assembly's Hebrew is picked up automatically, from 99 supported languages. A speaker who switches language for a few sentences is transcribed within the assembly's main language and the switches are handled; read those lines once.
Is this the official protocol of the assembly?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps that the secretary drafts minutes from, and the kibbutz's own procedure decides what the official record is.
Exports and privacy?
The exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and the DOCX opens as a draft protocol. Assembly recordings are processed on our own servers, never used for training, and removed when you delete them.
Related
Related to long community meetings
Upload the last assembly. The first 20 minutes free; the secretary decides after.
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