Transcribe recordings made in a parliament gallery a whole sitting, searchable the same day.
A sitting recorded from the public gallery or from the official stream can run seven hours or more, and a 7-hour recording comes back as text in about 14 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and the 420 minutes of a 7-hour sitting fit a $6 pack of 500 minutes.
What the chamber does to sound
A big chamber, many microphones and a gallery far from all of them.
Gallery audio versus the stream
From the gallery you hear the chamber's loudspeakers at a distance, with reverberation and the rustle of the people around you. The broadcast stream takes each member's desk microphone directly, so it is much cleaner. Where a stream exists, it is the better source, and a YouTube link needs no upload at all.
Interjections and the chair
Members speak over one another, and interjections from the benches land between sentences. The person holding the floor comes through clearly, while shouted remarks may appear as fragments. When the chair calls members by name, they are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
The arithmetic for a sitting day
Seven hours is 420 minutes, leaving at least 80 on the $6 pack. A sitting week of four such days is 1,680 minutes and fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. At about 2 minutes per audio hour, the day is readable before the evening news.
A working record, not the official one
This is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from: for reporting, research or briefing notes. It is not the chamber's official record and does not replace it. The brief, chapters by debate, and the names, numbers and dates said give you a fast way into a long day.
Following a long sitting
The official record of a sitting often appears a day or more after it ends.
✗ Waiting or rewinding
You either wait for the official record or scrub through hours of stream video.
- A sitting too long to rewatch
- Quotes checked by rewinding the stream
- Votes and figures noted by hand
- Interjections hard to place in time
- Nothing searchable on the day
- Gallery audio that echoes
✓ Text the same day
The whole sitting, divided by debate and searchable within minutes.
- Roughly 14 minutes for 7 hours
- Debates as chapters
- Members named in the summary
- Figures and dates listed
- Timestamps to check every quote
- The first 20 minutes, free
Sample
A sitting recorded from the stream, as it comes back.
This exchange is illustrative and was written for this page. It is not taken from any real chamber, member or debate.
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
Parliament sitting recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 7-hour sitting take to transcribe?
Expect about 14 minutes, since each hour of audio takes around 2. A short question time session is back in a few minutes.
What does a sitting day cost?
Someone new to the service gets the first 20 minutes free. A 7-hour sitting is 420 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A full sitting week usually belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
Can I use the official stream instead of my own recording?
Yes. A YouTube link, including a live replay, is fetched directly, and a stream longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account. If the stream is only on another site, download the file and upload it.
Is this an official transcript of the sitting?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from, not a certified or official record and not legal advice. Use the chamber's own record when you need the authoritative text.
The sitting ran past 10 hours. What then?
A single file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Send a longer sitting as two files, split at a suspension or a change of business, and each comes back with its own chapters.
Which languages are covered, and which files come back?
99 languages are detected automatically, and a sitting that moves between languages is detected on its main language. Files come back as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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