Transcribe a Mandarin community meeting and write the minutes from text, not memory.
A 2.5-hour Mandarin community meeting recorded in the United States is transcribed in about 5 minutes, with Mandarin detected automatically and English phrases kept where they were said. Twelve monthly meetings of that length come to 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and the first 20 minutes of the first recording are free.
For the association secretary
Forty members talked for two and a half hours. The secretary has to turn that into two pages by Friday.
Minutes start from a draft
The brief gives the meeting's main decisions and takeaways, and the chapters follow the agenda: treasurer's report, the Lunar New Year event, the scholarship committee, open floor. Open the DOCX and edit rather than type.
Every figure in one place
Dues amounts, event dates, headcounts and budget lines that were read aloud are listed with timestamps, so the treasurer's numbers in the minutes match the numbers in the room.
Ask the meeting a question
Type a question such as which date was agreed for the picnic, and the chat answers from the transcript with the moment it was settled. Speakers are identified and named in the summary and key quotes.
Big hall videos go through
The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; a longer camcorder file continues on the upload page. A recording that already sits in a Google Drive folder can be pasted as a link.
Why minutes run late
A community meeting in Mandarin, a minutes template in English, and one volunteer in between.
✗ Minutes from handwritten notes
The secretary scribbles during the meeting, misses the vote on the fee change while counting hands, and replays the phone recording on Sunday to find it.
- Two hours of replay for one motion
- Board members disputing what was agreed
- English-only tools that drop Mandarin
- Phone audio sitting unused in a chat group
- No record for members who missed it
- Amounts copied wrong from memory
✓ Minutes from the transcript
The recording goes up after the meeting and the Mandarin text, chapters and figures are back before the hall is locked.
- Full Mandarin text of the meeting
- Chapters that follow the agenda
- Motions and amounts listed with times
- Presenters named in the summary
- DOCX ready for the minutes
- Twelve months of meetings on one $12 pack
Sample output
An association general meeting, at the treasurer's report.
Illustrative lines written for this page, not from any real association. Gloss: "Next, the treasurer's report"; "Income this quarter was a little over budget"; "Membership dues stay the same next year"; "Any objections? None, so it passes"; "The picnic is on the second Saturday of June."
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 community meetings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour Mandarin meeting take to transcribe?
About 5 minutes, at the usual pace of roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 3-hour annual general meeting with elections takes about 6, so the secretary can have the text open before the chairs are stacked.
What does a year of meetings cost?
Each 2.5-hour meeting uses 150 minutes. Three of them, 450 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes; twelve monthly meetings, 1,800 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Packs are one-time purchases, there is no subscription, and unused minutes never expire, which suits an association that meets on its own calendar.
Members switch between Mandarin and English. Is that a problem?
No. The recording is detected on its main language, Mandarin here, and the English words inside it, such as committee names, street addresses or a city permit, are handled in the same pass. You do not choose a language; 99 are detected automatically.
Can I try it before the association pays?
Yes. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free. A meeting longer than that is previewed, and a pack from $6 transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped, so you can see the Mandarin text before anyone approves the spend.
The hall camera file is huge. Will it upload?
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB; a camcorder file larger than that starts once a pack is on the account. A separate audio recorder or phone is usually far smaller: at 128 kbps an hour is about 57.6 MB.
Are these the official minutes, and is the recording private?
The transcript is an AI draft to work from; the approved minutes remain the secretary's document. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON.
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