Transcribe Australian parliamentary sessions a full sitting, searchable by lunch.
A recorded sitting day or committee hearing in Australia usually runs 4 to 9 hours, and here it comes back as timestamped text at about 2 minutes per hour of video, so an 8-hour day is ready in roughly 16 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest of that day with minutes to spare.
What a sitting day turns into
Hours of debate, reduced to the passages you actually need to quote.
Paste the stream, skip the download
If the chamber or committee posted the session to YouTube, paste the link and the audio is fetched for you. A replay over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account. Video from another archive can be downloaded and uploaded on upload page, up to 2 GB before your first pack and 5 GB after.
Chapters in order of business
Question time, a second reading debate, a division, a committee witness: each change of item becomes a chapter with its start time. You jump to the debate you came for instead of scrubbing an eight-hour timeline.
Every number said aloud
Budget lines, clause numbers, dates and the names of bills are pulled into a list beside the transcript. When a minister cites a figure in reply to a question, you find the exact sentence and the second it was said.
A working copy, not Hansard
Hansard remains the official record of what was said. This gives researchers, staffers and reporters a searchable working copy the same day, which they can check against the official version when it is published.
Why sittings are hard to work from
A day in the chamber is too long for most tools and too slow to type.
✗ Working from the raw video
Sessions are long, the speakers change every few minutes, and the official record takes time to appear.
- Eight hours of video to scrub through
- Upload tools that stop at one or two hours
- Typing a quote out by hand from the replay
- No way to search for a bill name
- Losing the timestamp of an interjection
- Waiting for the official record to check one line
✓ One file per sitting day
The whole day arrives as one document with one clock, ready to search.
- Roughly 16 minutes for an 8-hour day
- Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in a single file
- Chapters at each item of business
- Names and figures pulled into a list
- Quotes you can cite to the second
- Exports for notes, captions and data
Sample
A committee hearing, as it comes back.
We wrote this illustrative sample for the page, and it does not come from a real hearing. Labels mark the part of the session rather than any person.
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
Parliamentary recordings, the common questions.
How long does it take to transcribe a full sitting day?
About 2 minutes for every hour of video. A 6-hour committee day is usually ready in around 12 minutes, and an 8-hour sitting in around 16. Our public proof page shows a 9.31-hour recording finished in 1,033 seconds.
What does an 8-hour sitting cost?
Eight hours is 480 minutes, which fits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. If you follow a whole sitting week of four such days, that is about 1,920 minutes, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the one to buy. Charges are in US dollars and the credits do not expire.
What if the sitting ran longer than 10 hours?
A single file takes up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever limit is reached first. A late-night sitting that ran past that should be cut into two files, for example at the dinner break, and each part comes back with its own chapters.
Can I paste a link instead of uploading?
Yes, if the session is on YouTube, including a live stream replay; a replay over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account. Other archives usually offer a video download, which you then upload. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB.
Are speakers identified?
Members, ministers, the chair and witnesses are identified and named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters, so you can see who raised a point. Speech in languages other than English is detected among 99 languages.
Which exports do I get, and is the recording kept private?
One run produces TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete the file and its transcript whenever you like.
Related
Other long recordings in Australia
Paste the sitting. The first 20 minutes free, the day from $6.
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