Transcribe royal commission hearing recordings in Australia, one hearing day at a time.
A royal commission public hearing day in Australia often runs 5 to 6 hours, and a 6-hour recording comes back as timestamped text in about 12 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free. A full 6-hour day uses 360 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack, and a two-week block of ten such days, 3,600 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000.
For researchers, advocates, journalists and affected people
A working copy of a long hearing day, ready while the evidence is still news.
From the stream to the text
Where a hearing is streamed and archived on YouTube or Vimeo, paste the replay link and the audio is fetched for you; a replay longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account. A recording saved from another player is downloaded first and then uploaded on the upload page.
A chapter for each witness
A hearing day moves from opening remarks to one witness after another, with breaks and tenders in between. Each witness becomes a chapter with the time they began, so you can go straight to the evidence you are following. Short adjournments and the time before the hearing resumes are part of the recording, and the chapters make it obvious where evidence starts again.
Exhibits, dates and figures
Document references, dates and amounts said in evidence are gathered in a list beside the transcript. Ask the chat when a witness first mentioned a complaint and it points to the minute.
For working from, not the official record
What you get is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from. It is not a certified or official transcript, it does not replace the transcript the commission itself publishes, and it is not legal advice.
Why hearing days are hard to follow
Days of evidence on a stream, and the moment you need is somewhere in hour four.
✗ Watching the whole day
A hearing can run for weeks. Following one theme, one institution or one witness across it means hours of video, or waiting for the official transcript and then searching a long document without the video beside it. People who gave evidence, and the families and communities following a hearing, often want to read what was said long before they can watch it all.
- Five to six hours per hearing day
- Weeks of hearings in a block
- Scrubbing for a single answer
- Notes that miss the exact words
- Apps that give up after the first hour of evidence
- No link from a quote to the video
✓ Every day as searchable text
Each hearing day returns as text with a chapter per witness, a brief of the evidence and the dates and documents mentioned. The timestamps link every quote back to the moment in the recording. Advocates and researchers can compare what different witnesses said about the same event by searching across the days they have transcribed.
- Roughly 12 minutes per 6-hour day
- Witness chapters with start times
- Counsel assisting and each witness named in the brief
- Documents and dates in a list
- Chat across a long day of evidence
- DOCX for briefing notes
Sample
A royal commission hearing, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not from any commission's hearing, and the role names stand in for 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
Royal commission recordings, the common questions.
How long does a 6-hour hearing day take to transcribe?
Roughly 12 minutes, at about 2 minutes for each hour. The public proof page shows a 9.31-hour recording done in 1,033 seconds. A 2.48-hour recording on the same page took 200 seconds.
What does a block of hearings cost?
One 6-hour day is 360 minutes on the $6 pack. Ten hearing days of 6 hours are 3,600 minutes, inside the $24 pack of 5,000 with 1,400 to spare. Prices are in US dollars and convert on your card.
Can I paste the hearing's stream link?
Yes, when the hearing is archived on YouTube or Vimeo. A replay over 6 hours starts once a pack is on your account. Video from other players is downloaded and uploaded instead.
A hearing day ran past 10 hours. What then?
Split it into two files, for example at the lunch adjournment, since one file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Each half gets its own chapters and brief. A downloaded video over 2 GB starts once a pack is on the account.
Are witnesses who speak another language handled?
Witnesses' languages are detected automatically, 99 of them. Where evidence is given through an interpreter, the recording is detected on its main language and the switches are handled.
Which exports come with a hearing, and is the recording private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, each with the timestamps kept. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and your working copies stay in your own account.
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