Transcribe a Mandarin business meeting even when it switches to English.
A Mandarin business meeting recorded in Singapore, typically one to two hours with English mixed in, comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 2-hour meeting takes roughly 4 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and four 2-hour meetings come to 480 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500.
What a mixed-language meeting needs
Minutes that keep up with a room that changes language mid-sentence.
Detected on the main language
A meeting is detected on the language spoken most. When the chair runs it in Mandarin and the finance lead answers in English, the switches are handled and the text stays in one timeline, so nothing has to be sent twice.
The decisions pulled out
Each meeting comes back with a brief of the thesis and takeaways, chapters by agenda item, and the names, numbers and dates said aloud. The figure quoted for the third quarter is in the list, with the minute it was spoken.
Arithmetic for a quarter
A weekly 2-hour meeting for thirteen weeks is 1,560 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 covers with 440 minutes left. Credits never expire. A team that records several meetings every week can look at the $19 a month Workspace instead.
No bot in the room
Nothing joins the call. Record in Zoom, Teams or on a phone as usual, then send the saved file from upload page. The text arrives at roughly 2 minutes per hour recorded.
Why bilingual meetings are hard to minute
A note-taker who follows Mandarin and English at once is rare.
✗ Notes by hand
Somebody types while also taking part, and the half of the meeting in the other language gets the thinnest notes. The person who records the meeting is rarely the person who writes it up, so the file sits in a shared folder until the details are fuzzy. By then nobody agrees on what the supplier was promised.
- Notes thin whenever the language changes
- Tools that want one language picked first
- Figures misheard and never checked
- An hour-long cap on uploads
- Action items lost between agenda points
- A per-seat fee for an occasional meeting
✓ A record of the whole meeting
One transcript of the recording, with the agenda turned into chapters. Whoever writes the minutes starts from a full record, so an agreement made in Mandarin and confirmed in English is captured once, with both halves. The chat answers a question such as which supplier was asked for a quote, and points to the minute.
- Two hours of discussion in about 4 minutes
- Language detected, switches handled
- Participants named in the summary
- Numbers and dates listed in the brief
- A chat that recalls what the room agreed
- DOCX minutes, JSON for your own tools
Sample
A two-hour meeting in Mandarin and English.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; the company, people and figures are invented. Lines appear in the language that was spoken.
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
Mandarin business meetings, answered.
How quickly does a 2-hour meeting come back?
In about 4 minutes. A 90-minute meeting takes about 3, because the processing rate is roughly 2 minutes per audio hour.
What will a month of meetings cost?
Four 2-hour meetings make 480 minutes, so the $6 pack of 500 covers a month of weekly meetings. A quarter of them, 1,560 minutes, goes on the $12 pack of 2,000. The first 20 minutes on a first visit are free, and a pack transcribes the remainder from the point the preview reached.
The meeting switches between Mandarin and English. Is that a problem?
No. Mandarin and English are both among the 99 languages detected automatically. The recording is detected on its main language and the switches inside it are handled, with no setting to choose. If one colleague wants an English summary, ask the chat for one; it answers from the transcript of the meeting itself.
What size can the meeting file be?
The per-file ceiling is 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever arrives first. Until a pack is on the account, uploads go up to 2 GB; a larger file starts after the first pack. A recording kept on Google Drive can be pasted as a share link.
Do I need to split a long strategy day?
Only beyond 10 hours. A full-day session of 7 hours goes in as one file and comes back in about 14 minutes.
Which exports are there, and is the meeting kept private?
Minutes download as TXT or DOCX, and SRT, VTT and JSON are there too. Meeting audio is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training.
Related
More for meetings
Send the last meeting. The opening 20 minutes of a meeting are free.
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