Transcribe a grassroots meeting in Mandarin, English or both.
A grassroots meeting recorded in Singapore, such as a residents' committee or community club meeting of about two hours in Mandarin and English, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so it returns in roughly 4 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and twelve monthly 2-hour meetings come to 1,440 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000.
What a volunteer secretary needs
Minutes written from the recording, not from a tired memory.
Both languages in one record
Committee meetings often move between Mandarin and English as members speak. The recording is detected on its main language and the switches are handled, so the minutes follow the meeting as it happened.
Events, dates and budgets listed
The brief collects the decisions and takeaways, and a separate list holds the dates, amounts and names that were said: the date of the block party, the budget for the outing, who volunteered for the booth.
A year on one pack
Twelve monthly meetings of 2 hours are 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000, leaving 560 for planning sessions. One meeting alone is 120 minutes on the $6 pack of 500.
Record however you meet
A phone on the table, a laptop in the room or a Zoom recording all work. Send the file from upload page after the meeting; no bot joins anything.
Why grassroots minutes run late
Volunteers run the meeting, then someone has to write it all up.
✗ Minutes from memory
The secretary takes part, takes notes and translates in their head, and the minutes arrive a week later. Grassroots committees rely on volunteers with day jobs, and minutes are the task everyone hopes someone else will do. A two-hour discussion in two languages is hard to compress into a page from memory.
- Notes that drop the Mandarin parts
- Decisions remembered differently
- Event dates written down wrong
- Tools that ask for one language first
- Short upload limits
- A paid plan for a monthly meeting
✓ Minutes from the recording
The whole meeting as text, chaptered by agenda item, with the dates and figures pulled out. The secretary reads the text, cuts it down to decisions and actions, and circulates the minutes within days. Anyone who missed the meeting can ask the chat when the next event is and who is in charge of it.
- Text about 4 minutes after upload
- Mandarin and English handled together
- Committee members who spoke named in the summary
- Dates and budgets in the brief
- Chat to check what was agreed
- DOCX for the committee file
Sample
A residents' meeting in Mandarin and English.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; the committee, people and amounts are invented. Each line is shown in the language its speaker used.
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
Grassroots meeting recordings, answered.
How soon is a 2-hour committee meeting ready?
About 4 minutes. Processing runs at around 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute meeting takes about 3.
What will a year of committee meetings cost?
Twelve 2-hour meetings make 1,440 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000. If the committee meets only a few times, four meetings at 480 minutes fit the $6 pack of 500. The first 20 minutes on a new visit are free, and a pack continues a longer meeting from the point the preview reached.
Members speak Mandarin, English and sometimes Malay. Will it work?
The meeting is detected on its main language, and switches between Mandarin and English are handled. Short passages in a third language are worth checking by ear before the minutes go out. Recording works best with the phone placed near the middle of the table, so quieter members are picked up as clearly as the chair.
How big may the file be?
Each file can reach 10 hours or 5 GB. Before a first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, which covers a phone recording of any meeting many times over.
Does a long planning session need splitting?
Not unless the recording goes beyond 10 hours. A long planning afternoon of 5 hours stays as one file.
What can the committee export, and who sees the audio?
The secretary can take TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Committee recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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