Transcribe a recording made in a school gym echo, bleachers and all.
A recording from a school gym, such as a school board meeting of 3 to 4 hours or a 1-hour assembly, comes back as text at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 4-hour meeting takes about 8 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest of that meeting and keeps 260 minutes in reserve.
What a gym does to a microphone
A gym is the most echoing room in the building, and it is where the board meets when a crowd is expected.
Echo that hangs in the air
Hard floors, block walls and a high roof make sound bounce for a long time. A recording taken from the PA mixer or a microphone near the speaker holds up, while a phone in the bleachers mostly catches the room. Either way the file processes at about 2 minutes per audio hour.
Board, staff and parents
A board meeting mixes the chair, the superintendent, staff presenters and parents at the comment microphone. The summary, key quotes and chapters name people who give their names, which in public comment most of them do.
One meeting, then the year
One 4-hour meeting uses 240 minutes of a $6 pack. A board that meets monthly for 4 hours uses 2,880 minutes a year, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers the year and the special sessions too.
Assemblies are shorter and louder
An assembly runs about an hour, with cheering, a band and announcements. Music and crowd noise are not transcribed. The speeches and announcements are, and each one starts its own chapter.
Why gym recordings are hard to use
Parents want to know what was decided. The video is four hours long.
✗ The meeting video and nothing else
Districts often post the full video and leave everyone to hunt for the vote themselves.
- Four hours of video to find one vote
- Captions garbled by the echo
- Public comments nobody can search
- Minutes that arrive a month later
- A free tool that stops at 40 minutes
- No record of the numbers presented
✓ A searchable record of the night
The meeting comes back as text with chapters, and the budget figures and dates said are listed separately.
- About 8 minutes for a 4-hour meeting
- The first 20 minutes free
- A chapter for every agenda item
- Board members and parents named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- Budget figures and dates pulled out
- SRT captions for the posted video
Sample
A school board meeting, held in the gym.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any real district's meeting. The clock starts when the chair calls the meeting to order.
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
School gym recordings, the common questions.
How quickly does a board meeting come back?
About 2 minutes for each hour of audio. A 4-hour meeting is ready in around 8 minutes, and an hour-long assembly in about 2.
How much is a 4-hour board meeting?
It is 240 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes transcribes the rest. A district recording every month would buy the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes once for the year.
The meeting is livestreamed. Can I use the link?
Yes. Paste the YouTube link, live replays included. A stream recording over 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account.
Will the echo ruin it?
Echo makes it harder, not impossible. A feed from the sound desk or a microphone near the speaker comes back far better than a phone in the stands. Music and cheering are left out, and the speech is transcribed.
How large can the file be, and what if the meeting ran very late?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file. Before you buy a pack, uploads up to 2 GB start immediately, and anything larger waits until a pack is on the account. A session past 10 hours is sent as two files.
What do we get, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from one run, plus the brief, chapters and a chat over the text. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related pages for school meetings
Send the board meeting. The first 20 minutes free, the rest from $6.
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