Transcribe a Mandarin business meeting and send the English-speaking side a record in minutes.
A 2.5-hour Mandarin business meeting recorded in Canada comes back as text in about 5 minutes, with Mandarin detected automatically and the English figures and product terms inside it handled. A weekly 90-minute management meeting runs 360 minutes a month, which fits the $6 pack of 500 after the first 20 minutes free.
For whoever owns the meeting notes
A meeting in Mandarin with numbers in English is where notes go wrong. Start from the full text instead.
Figures said in English, kept
Prices in dollars, SKU codes, quarter names and software terms often come out in English mid-sentence. They stay in the transcript and the brief lists the numbers and dates that were said.
Agenda items become chapters
Each topic, from the supplier update to the hiring plan, gets a chapter with its timestamp, so the person who missed the call reads only their part. The summary names the participants, so action items read as 'the operations lead will confirm the warehouse date' rather than a vague 'someone will follow up'.
Ask what was agreed
A chat over the transcript answers 'what deadline did we set for the shipment?' and points to the minute it was said.
After the call, not during it
Nothing joins the meeting. Record in Zoom, Teams or a room recorder as you already do, then upload the file or a Google Drive share link. Long room-camera files go through the upload page.
How meeting records go missing
Two hours of discussion, and the follow-up email covers five lines.
✗ Notes taken live
One person writes in a mix of characters and English shorthand while also trying to take part. Weeks later, when a partner asks what was promised on delivery dates, nobody can point to the exact words, and the recording is too long to search by ear.
- Action items remembered differently by each side
- Numbers misheard and never checked
- English-only tools that mangle Mandarin
- A colleague abroad who missed the call
- No record when a supplier disputes terms
- Hours rewatching the recording
✓ With the transcript
Every point raised, in order, with the decisions pulled to the top. Colleagues who prefer English read the brief and chapters, then open the Mandarin text at the timestamp of any point they want to verify. Disagreements about what was said are settled in a minute rather than a meeting.
- About 5 minutes per 2.5-hour meeting
- Chapters at each agenda item
- Participants named in the summary
- Numbers and dates listed
- A chat to check any commitment
- DOCX to edit into minutes
Sample output
A Mandarin meeting with English terms mid-sentence.
Illustrative sample written for this page, not from any company. In English: 'Let's start with the Q3 shipment schedule'; 'The supplier's quote went up eight percent'; 'Can marketing send the deck by Friday'; 'We'll decide at the next meeting.'
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Mandarin business meetings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour meeting take to transcribe?
About 5 minutes. A one-hour call is back in about 2, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. Upload when the meeting ends and the record is waiting before the participants have left the building.
What will a month or a quarter of meetings cost?
Four weekly 90-minute meetings are 360 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500. A quarter of thirteen, 1,170 minutes, fits the $12 pack of 2,000. If the whole team records meetings every week, a $19/month Workspace is an option.
Does a bot join our Zoom or Teams call?
No. Nothing joins a live call; WhipScribe works on the recording afterwards. Save the cloud or local recording, then upload it or paste a Google Drive share link.
Half the meeting is in English. Is that a problem?
No. The recording is detected on its main language and the other language is handled in the same pass. A meeting that is mostly English with Mandarin side discussions is detected as English, and the Mandarin parts still come through.
Do we need everyone's agreement to record?
Tell participants before you record and get their agreement; it is good practice and expected in most workplaces. The transcript is a working record for the team, not an official or certified document.
Where does the recording go, and what can we export?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when prices and supplier terms are discussed. Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON.
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