Transcribe parliamentary sessions from New Zealand, whole sittings at a time.
A five-hour sitting or select committee hearing from New Zealand comes back as text in about 10 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free. The remaining 280 minutes fit on a $6 pack of 500 minutes, with 200 left for the next hearing day.
What a long sitting looks like here
Hours of debate and submissions, turned into a record you can search by topic.
A sitting is one job, not a stack of clips
Committee hearings and House sittings run for hours, and most tools want them cut into pieces first. Here a single file of up to 10 hours or 5 GB goes in whole, keeps one clock from the opening to the adjournment, and comes back at about 2 minutes per hour of audio.
Paste the link if there is one
If the sitting or hearing you need is published as a YouTube video or live replay, paste the link and nothing has to be downloaded. A replay longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account. If you only have the saved file, drop it on upload page.
The sitting week, in minutes
Three afternoons of about five hours each come to roughly 900 minutes. That fits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, which leaves 1,100 for committee days, and credits never expire between sessions.
Find the submitter, not the hour
Each recording comes back with chapters that follow the items of business, the names, figures and dates that were said, and a chat you can ask which submitter raised a particular point. Members and submitters are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Why sittings are awkward elsewhere
A sitting is longer than most transcription tools were built to take.
✗ Built for a half-hour call
Short-file tools ask you to cut a five-hour hearing into chunks and then stitch the text back together yourself.
- A length cap well under a sitting day
- Timestamps that restart in every chunk
- A monthly plan for one hearing
- No way to find one submitter
- Hand-typing a day of debate
- Captions copied out of a player
✓ A sitting in, a record out
The whole sitting goes in as one recording and comes back as one document with one timeline.
- A sitting of up to 10 hours, whole
- About 10 minutes for 5 hours
- Twenty minutes free to start
- Chapters per order-paper item
- Names and figures pulled out
- Five export formats
Sample
A committee hearing, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not taken from any real sitting or hearing. Member and submitter names are replaced by roles.
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
New Zealand sittings and hearings, the common questions.
How long does a five-hour sitting take to transcribe?
About 10 minutes. Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a three-hour committee session is usually ready in about 6. You can close the tab while it runs; the transcript waits in your Library.
What does a sitting cost on a pack?
Five hours is 300 minutes. The first 20 are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers the rest, at $0.72 per audio hour. A sitting week of around 15 hours belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes instead, about $0.36 an hour.
The recording runs past 10 hours, or the file is huge. What then?
A single file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, so an unusually long day goes in as two files split at a break. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB; a larger video starts once a pack is on the account, or you can save the audio track alone, which is far smaller.
Does it handle te reo Māori in an English sitting?
WhipScribe detects 99 languages without a setting, and a recording is detected on its main language. Where a sitting is mostly English with greetings, speeches or passages in te reo Māori, read those passages on a review pass against the audio before you quote them.
Which exports come back, and where does the audio go?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON all come from the same run, and every line carries its timestamp. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a hearing and its transcript whenever you like.
Is this the official record of the sitting?
No. It is a machine transcript with timestamps for research, reporting and preparing submissions, made from the recording you supply. The official record is whatever Parliament publishes, so check any quote you rely on against that and against the audio.
Related
Other long public recordings
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