Transcribe a Portuguese community meeting and write the minutes from the page.
A 2-hour community meeting held in Portuguese in the United States comes back as text in about 4 minutes, with Portuguese detected automatically and English remarks handled in the same pass. The first 20 minutes are free, and twelve monthly meetings of 2 hours, 1,440 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For the association secretary
Writing the ata takes longer than the meeting did. Start from the full text instead of a page of scribbles.
The minutes, half written
The brief lists the decisions and takeaways in order, and the chapters follow the agenda, so the formal record becomes a matter of tidying rather than reconstructing two hours from memory.
Every number that was said
Dues, budget lines, event dates and vote counts mentioned aloud are listed with the moment they came up, which makes checking a disputed figure a two-minute job.
Members who could not come
Send the brief to people who missed the assembly, in Portuguese, so they know what was decided before the next meeting rather than after it.
Phone recording or Zoom file
A phone on the table, a Zoom cloud recording or a video from the back of the hall all work; files over 500 MB go through the upload page.
Why meeting records slip
A volunteer secretary, a two-hour assembly and a deadline for the minutes.
✗ Writing from notes
Half the discussion happens in fast Portuguese, some of it in English, and the notes miss the part everyone argues about later.
- Minutes written days after the meeting
- Disagreements over what was decided
- Tools that only understand English
- Replaying audio to find one figure
- Members left out of decisions
- A recording nobody listens to
✓ Writing from the transcript
Upload the recording that night and the text arrives before the kettle boils.
- The full meeting in Portuguese text
- Chapters at each agenda item
- Budget figures and dates listed
- Speakers named in the summary
- A brief to share with absent members
- A year of monthly meetings on $12
Sample output
An association assembly in Portuguese, with one question in English.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real association or member is quoted. In English: good evening, let's start the assembly with the treasurer's report; this year we raised a little more than expected at the festival; who is in favour of renewing the hall rental; and a question about whether the minutes will be shared by email.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Portuguese community meetings, answered.
How fast is a 2-hour meeting transcribed?
In about 4 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 90-minute meeting takes about 3, and a 3-hour annual assembly about 6.
Brazilian, European or Cape Verdean speakers in one room: does that matter?
Portuguese is detected automatically whichever accent dominates, and the recording is detected on its main language. Remarks in English, common when younger members or guests join in, are handled in the same transcript. Where a speaker switches fully into Kriolu, check those passages, because the transcript is built on the meeting's main language.
What does a year of meetings cost?
Twelve monthly meetings of 2 hours are 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000, leaving 560 minutes for a long annual assembly or a committee call. If the group meets only a few times, four 2-hour meetings, 480 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500. Credits never expire and there is no subscription.
Is the transcript an official record?
No. It is an AI transcript for the secretary to work from; the minutes the members approve remain the record, and the transcript is not legal advice about how your association must keep them.
Will the summary show who proposed what?
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, the key quotes and the chapters, so the brief says which officer presented the budget. The transcript reads as running text without a name on every line, and roles help when people are not introduced by name.
What do we download, and who sees the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so members' personal matters raised at the meeting stay with the association.
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