Transcribe a Punjabi community meeting held by a Canadian association or committee.
Punjabi community and association meetings in Canada often run 2 to 3 hours, and a 3-hour recording comes back as text in about 6 minutes, with Punjabi detected automatically and the first 20 minutes free. A 3-hour meeting uses 180 minutes, so the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers two meetings with 140 minutes over.
For secretaries and committee members
Minutes drafted from what was actually said, in Punjabi and in English.
Punjabi first, English mixed in
Committee meetings in Canada often run in Punjabi with figures, motions and names of programs said in English. The recording is detected on its main language and the switches are handled, so nothing said in English is lost from the text. A member who addresses the meeting in Hindi or Urdu is handled the same way, since 99 languages are detected.
Speeches yes, kirtan no
When a meeting opens or closes with kirtan, the singing and music are not transcribed. The speeches, the reports, the discussion and the votes are, so the text starts where the business starts.
Agenda as chapters
The treasurer's report, the building fund, the youth program and any other business each become a chapter with a start time. The secretary drafts the minutes from the brief and checks each decision against the moment it was made. Long meeting videos go up from the upload page.
Figures you can check
Amounts, dates and the names of the people moving and seconding a motion are pulled into a list beside the transcript. When a member questions last year's spending, the exact sentence is a search away.
Why minutes fall behind
A three-hour meeting, a secretary with a notebook, and a recording nobody replays.
✗ Minutes from memory
The secretary writes what was decided as best they can, and a disagreement at the next meeting turns into a debate about whose memory is right. The recording exists, but no one has three hours to listen again. When the meeting is a general body meeting with dozens of members speaking, even a careful secretary cannot catch every point raised.
- Handwritten notes of a long debate
- Tools that cannot read Punjabi
- English figures lost in the mix
- Kirtan filling the transcript
- Motions without a mover recorded
- Arguments over what was promised
✓ A record the committee can check
The meeting comes back as text with chapters, a brief and the figures said. Draft minutes take an evening instead of a weekend, and any question about a decision is settled by the transcript. Members who could not attend can read the brief in Punjabi or English and know what was decided before the next meeting.
- Roughly 6 minutes for a 3-hour meeting
- Punjabi and English kept together
- Each agenda item as a chapter
- Office-bearers named in the summary
- Amounts and dates in a list
- DOCX that becomes the Punjabi and English minutes
Sample
A Punjabi committee meeting, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not taken from any organisation's meeting; role names replace the names a summary would carry.
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
Punjabi meeting recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour Punjabi meeting take?
Around 6 minutes; each hour of audio takes about 2. A 2-hour committee meeting is ready in about 4. The time is the same for Punjabi as for English: it depends on the length of the recording, not the language.
What would a year of committee meetings cost?
Twelve monthly meetings of 2 hours come to 1,440 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 560 left for an annual general meeting or two. Prices are in US dollars and convert at checkout. A single 3-hour annual general meeting fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
Is the Punjabi written in Gurmukhi?
Punjabi is detected automatically among 99 languages and is usually written in Gurmukhi. Read the first 20 minutes, which are free, to see how your speakers come out before buying anything.
The meeting was filmed on a phone. Will the file upload?
A phone video up to 2 GB uploads before any pack is bought, and up to 5 GB or 10 hours after. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first; a 3-hour MP3 is small.
We recorded in two parts after a break. Is that fine?
Yes, upload each part as its own file. If you would rather have one brief for the whole meeting, join the parts before uploading, as long as the total stays under 10 hours.
Which files do we get, and who can see the recording?
TXT and DOCX for the minutes, SRT and VTT for captions, and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training; the committee's account is the only place the meeting appears.
Related
More for long meetings
Upload the last committee meeting. Write the committee's minutes from the Punjabi text.
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