Transcribe parliamentary and legislative sessions from Ottawa or a provincial legislature.
To transcribe a Canadian parliamentary or legislative sitting, paste the stream link or upload the recording. A sitting of up to 10 hours goes in as one file, 8 hours comes back in about 16 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free.
Built for the length of a sitting
A day in the chamber, or a two-hour committee, as text you can search.
The link is enough
When the sitting or committee is published on YouTube, including a live stream once its replay is posted, paste the address and the audio is fetched for you. Nothing has to be saved to your laptop first, which matters when the video runs to several gigabytes.
Committees, one at a time
Committee meetings are often around two hours and full of witness testimony. Upload each as its own file and each gets its own chapters, its own list of the figures that were cited, and its own brief of what the witnesses argued.
Eight hours, sixteen minutes
At about 2 minutes per hour of audio, a long sitting is text before a staffer has finished the day’s other briefings. The public proof page shows a run of 9.31 hours that finished in 1,033 seconds.
Not the official record
This is an AI transcript with timestamps for following debate and preparing notes. It is not a certified transcript, not a substitute for the chamber’s own published record, and not legal advice. upload page
The trouble with watching it back
A sitting is longer than most tools will take, and slower than staff can wait.
✗ Waiting or rewatching
Staff tracking a bill often rewatch hours of video to find two minutes of debate.
- A published record that arrives after you needed it
- Rewatching question period to catch one answer
- Auto-captions with no paragraphs or punctuation
- Upload limits far below a full sitting
- Separate downloads for each committee video
- No list of the figures and dates members cited
✓ The sitting as text
Paste the link once and search the day for the bill number, the member or the figure.
- A stream link instead of a download
- Up to 10 hours and 5 GB per file
- Chapters for each debate and each witness
- Members named in the summary and key quotes
- A chat that answers what the minister said about timelines
- Captions as SRT or VTT for the clip you share
Sample
A committee hearing excerpt, as it returns.
This excerpt is illustrative, written for this page; it is not from any real committee or member. Times count from the start of the meeting video.
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
Sittings and committees, the common questions.
How long does an 8-hour sitting take to transcribe?
About 16 minutes at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A two-hour committee meeting usually finishes in about 4.
What does it cost to follow a week of committees?
Ten committee meetings of two hours each come to 1,200 minutes. That is more than the $6 pack covers, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the one to buy, with about 13 hours left after the week. Prices are in US dollars and there is no subscription.
Can I paste the live stream link while it is still live?
Paste the link once the sitting has ended and the replay is published. Stream recordings over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account, and the first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor.
A sitting ran longer than 10 hours. How do I handle it?
Use two files, because one file holds at most 10 hours. Cut at a suspension or the dinner break, upload both, and each returns with its own timestamps. Files can also be up to 5 GB each, or 2 GB before the first pack.
Debate switches between English and French. How is that transcribed?
A recording is detected on its main language, out of 99 supported. Where the broadcast offers separate English, French or floor audio, transcribing the channel you need gives the cleanest text. On a mixed floor channel, read the passages in the second language against the video.
Which formats come out of a sitting, and is the audio kept private?
Every sitting exports to TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete the transcript and audio at any time.
Related
Related long recordings
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