Transcribe a recording made in a community centre from the folding chairs to the minutes.
A recording from a community centre, whether a residents' association meeting of 2 hours or a training day of 6, comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio: roughly 4 minutes for the meeting and 12 for the training. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers a full 6-hour day with 140 minutes to spare.
What a multipurpose room does
The room hosts a toddler group at ten and your meeting at seven. The recording carries traces of both.
Bare floors and a kitchen hatch
Multipurpose rooms are usually hard-floored and lightly furnished, with a tea urn, a serving hatch or a busy corridor next door. That background is not transcribed. A phone in the middle of the table normally picks up the people sitting round it well enough to read.
Volunteers, not presenters
Committee members talk over one another, hand a point to whoever knows it and wander off topic. The summary keeps the thesis and the takeaways anyway, and people are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters when their names come up in the room.
Two common lengths, priced
A 2-hour meeting uses 120 minutes and a 6-hour training day uses 360, both inside one $6 pack of 500. An association that meets for 2 hours every month uses 1,440 minutes over a year, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000.
Who agreed to do what
The list of names, numbers and dates catches the hall booking, the grant amount and the date of the next event. Ask the chat over the transcript who volunteered for the newsletter, and it answers with the moment it was said.
Why the minutes are always late
The secretary is a volunteer. The recording should not become a second job.
✗ Notes on the back of the agenda
In most associations the minutes are whatever one person managed to write while also taking part.
- Decisions remembered differently by each member
- A two-hour replay to check one point
- Free tools that stop at 30 or 40 minutes
- Training content lost once the trainer leaves
- No record of who offered to help
- A monthly fee for a group with no budget
✓ The meeting, written down for you
Record on a phone, upload it when you get home, and the text is waiting before the kettle boils.
- About 4 minutes for a 2-hour meeting
- The first 20 minutes free
- One-time packs, no subscription
- Chapters for each agenda point
- Names, sums and dates in one list
- A DOCX you can edit into minutes
Sample
A meeting and a training day, partway through.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any real group's recording. It shows how a committee meeting and a training session read once they are text.
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
Community centre recordings, answered.
How long will a meeting from the community centre take?
Roughly 2 minutes for each hour of audio. A 2-hour meeting is usually done in about 4 minutes, and a full training day of 6 hours in about 12.
What does a 6-hour training day cost to transcribe?
Six hours is 360 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest while leaving at least 140 minutes for another session.
I recorded on a phone at the back of the room. Is that good enough?
Usually, for anyone who spoke up. Voices near the phone come back cleanest, while quiet asides from the far side of the room may be missed. Next time, put the phone in the middle of the table.
The training was saved as a morning file and an afternoon file. Do I need to join them into one?
Not at all. Upload both, and each gets its own transcript, brief and chapters. A single file can also run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and before the first pack uploads up to 2 GB start immediately.
Our members speak different languages. Will that cause trouble?
No setting is needed: 99 languages are detected automatically. A meeting held mostly in one language is transcribed on that language, and a recording that switches between English and Tagalog is handled.
Which files do I get, and is the recording private?
You get TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, all from the same run. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a recording and its transcript whenever you like.
Related
Other rooms and meetings
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