Transcribe school board meeting recordings every motion and delegation.
A 5-hour school board meeting recorded in Canada is transcribed in about 10 minutes, and a year of twenty 4-hour meetings, 4,800 minutes, fits the $24 pack of 5,000. Paste the YouTube link when the board streams there, and the meeting comes back with chapters for each delegation and motion, plus the figures and dates said.
For parents, reporters and trustees
Five hours of public meeting, readable in fifteen minutes.
Delegations in chapters
Parents, staff and community groups come to the microphone with a few minutes each, often late in the evening. Chapters with timestamps give every delegation its own place, so a parent council can read its own presentation and the trustees' replies. Delegations who sent a written brief can compare it with what they actually said.
Motions, amendments, votes
A long agenda has motions moved, amended, referred and carried. The chat answers questions such as what the amendment to the transportation motion said, and points to the minute, ready for a newsletter or a story. Recorded votes, where trustees state yes or no in turn, come through as spoken.
Paste the stream link
Where a board streams its meetings to YouTube, the replay link can be pasted as it is, with no download. Recordings posted elsewhere can be downloaded and dropped on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file.
The budget in numbers
Budget nights mean enrolment counts, staffing levels and dollar figures read from slides. The brief lists the numbers and dates that were spoken; numbers that stayed on a slide and were never said are not in the text.
Why board meetings go unread
The decision that affects your school can come at 10:40 at night.
✗ Watching the replay
A five-hour stream is the public record, and almost nobody can sit through it.
- Scrubbing for one delegation
- Votes reported second-hand
- Late items nobody watches
- Auto captions with no structure
- No search across a year
- Figures shown but not explained
✓ Reading the meeting
The replay becomes text with chapters you can search and quote.
- Five hours readable after about 10 minutes
- A chapter per delegation
- Votes found by timestamp
- Trustees named in the summary
- Links pasted, no upload
- $24 for a year of meetings
Sample
A delegation and a motion, as they come back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page; the board, the school and the speakers are invented.
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 board meetings, the common questions.
How soon is a 5-hour board meeting ready to read?
About 10 minutes, since the speed is close to 2 minutes per audio hour. A 3-hour meeting is back in about 6, so a story or a parent council update can be written that night.
What does it cost to transcribe a school year of meetings?
Twenty 4-hour meetings are 4,800 minutes, inside the $24 pack of 5,000 at $0.29 an audio hour. One 5-hour meeting, 300 minutes, sits inside the $6 pack of 500, and five such meetings, 1,500 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000.
Can I try one meeting first?
Yes, a first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free. A longer meeting is previewed to that point and a pack carries on from where the preview ended.
Does a streamed replay work?
A YouTube link, including a live replay, is pasted directly. Live replays over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account. A downloaded file may be up to 10 hours or 5 GB; before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB.
English and French?
Both are among 99 languages detected automatically. A meeting that moves between them is detected on its main language, and the switches are handled. Delegations in another language are detected the same way when they are the main language of the file.
Which formats can a parent council download, and is the recording kept private?
TXT and DOCX for newsletters, SRT and VTT to caption the replay, and JSON, each with chapters and the brief. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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