Stream link · multi-hour sittings · about 2 min per hour

Transcribe parliamentary sessions straight from the stream link.

A South African parliamentary sitting or portfolio committee meeting can be transcribed by pasting its YouTube stream link, at about 2 minutes per hour of proceedings. The first 20 minutes are free, a five-hour committee meeting fits on the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and replays longer than 6 hours start once a pack is on the account.

Packs from $6, credits never expire · then from $0.36/hour · Credits never expire · Never used to train AI

✓Paste the stream link · ✓About 2 minutes per hour · ✓First 20 minutes free · ✓Never used for training

For people who follow the House

Every briefing, question and reply of a committee day, searchable the same afternoon.

No download step

Paste the link to the stream replay and the audio is fetched for you. A replay longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account; a shorter one starts straight away.

Committee days in minutes

A five-hour portfolio committee meeting comes back in about 10 minutes, and a full plenary day of eight hours in about 16. Staff, researchers and reporters can read a department's briefing before the news cycle moves on.

Find one member's question

Chapters follow the agenda, and the key quotes name the member or official speaking. Search a department name or an amount to land on the minute it came up.

Ask the recording

A chat over the transcript answers questions such as what the department said about its spending target, and points back to the passage. Local files go through upload page.

Why sittings go unread

Proceedings stream for hours, and few people can watch them live.

✗ Watching the replay

A committee day on video can only be followed at the speed it was spoken, with no text to search.

Hours of video per meeting
Downloading the replay first
Captions that cannot be searched
Apps that stop after an hour
No list of figures quoted
Waiting for the official record

✓ Text from the link

The replay becomes a document you can read, search and quote by timestamp. Researchers who follow several committees can keep a week of meetings searchable in one Library.

Paste the link, no download
Five hours of committee in about 10 min
Chapters by agenda item
Amounts and dates listed
Members named in the summary and quotes
SRT to caption your own clips

Sample

A committee meeting excerpt, as it comes back.

This excerpt is illustrative and was written for this page; it does not quote any real member, official or department.

transcript · whipscribe.com/view/transcribe-parliamentary-sessions-south-africa

00:03:15 Welcome to the department. You have forty minutes for the briefing, then members will ask questions.

00:12:40 Of the allocated budget, sixty-one percent was spent by the end of the third quarter.

01:05:22 Chairperson, the same target was missed last year. What is different this time?

01:06:01 Two of the delayed contracts have now been signed, and the rest will be awarded before year end.

Export

One transcript. Five clean formats.

Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.

.txt

Plain text

De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.

.srt

SRT captions

Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.

.vtt

WebVTT

HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.

.docx

Show notes

Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.

.json

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

Get 500 minutes

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

Get 2,000 minutes

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

Get 5,000 minutes

FAQ

Parliamentary recordings, answered.

How fast is a long committee meeting transcribed?

About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a five-hour meeting takes about 10 minutes and an eight-hour sitting about 16. A public test run on long files transcribed 9.31 hours in 1,033 seconds.

What do a month of committee meetings cost?

Ten meetings of four hours each are 40 hours, or 2,400 minutes, above the $12 pack's 2,000, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes is the one that covers them. A single sitting of up to eight hours fits on the $6 pack. Prices are in US dollars, with no subscription.

Can I paste a YouTube link to the stream?

Yes. YouTube videos and live replays work from the link, as do Vimeo and Google Drive share links. A replay over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account.

What about a sitting longer than 10 hours?

One file holds up to 10 hours. For a longer day, download the recording and cut it at a break into two files, each of which comes back with its own timeline.

Does this replace the official record?

No. It is a text for following proceedings and working from. The record published by Parliament remains the authoritative version. Use the text to find a passage quickly, then check the wording against the official version before quoting it in print.

Which formats and languages, and where does the audio go?

Speeches in English, Afrikaans or Zulu are detected automatically, among 99 languages. Downloads for a sitting include TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. The audio is transcribed on our own servers and is never used for training.

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