Transcribe a Senate or House hearing from the Philippines, all of it.
To transcribe a Philippine Senate or House hearing, paste its YouTube link below: a 6-hour session returns in about 12 minutes and an 8-hour one in about 16, with the first 20 minutes free. The whole hearing fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and replays over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account.
Built for a full day of committee work
A hearing that ran from morning to evening, readable before the news cycle moves on.
Start from the replay link
Committee hearings of both chambers are usually streamed and left on YouTube as one long replay. Copy that link and paste it here; the audio is pulled from the video, so nothing has to be saved to your laptop first. Replays over 6 hours begin once a pack is on the account.
English, Filipino and the mix
Hearings move between formal English, Filipino and Taglish inside a single exchange. The main language is detected automatically, and switches between English and Tagalog in one recording are handled, so a question asked in English and answered in Filipino stays in one transcript.
Who said it, and when
The summary, key quotes and chapters name the chair, the members asking questions and the resource persons answering, each with a timestamp. That is the part reporters and researchers usually need: the exact words, and the minute to verify them against the video.
The cost of a long session
Eight hours is 480 minutes, so one full hearing sits inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. If you follow an inquiry across several sessions, the $12 pack holds 2,000 minutes, a little over 33 hours of hearings, and the credits never expire.
Why hearings are hard to work from
Eight hours of video is easy to watch live and hard to cite later.
✗ Scrubbing through the replay
Most people end up dragging the YouTube slider back and forth, looking for the minute a witness said the number everyone is quoting. By the time it turns up, the story has moved on and the quote is already circulating without its context.
- Auto-captions that drop Filipino words
- Tools that stop at an hour or two
- Splitting the replay into parts by hand
- No idea which senator asked which question
- Quotes copied from someone else's post
- A day lost to rewatching
✓ One link, one transcript
The full session comes back as one document, with one clock that matches the video. Reporters, staff and researchers can read the exchange, copy the quote and link the exact minute for anyone who wants to check it.
- A 6-hour hearing in about 12 minutes
- English and Tagalog in the same file
- Senators and witnesses named in the summary
- Chapters by witness and line of questioning
- Timestamps to check every quote
- DOCX for the article, SRT for the clip
Sample
A committee hearing, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not taken from a real hearing. The roles stand in for the names the 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
Philippine hearings, the common questions.
How long does an 8-hour Senate hearing take to transcribe?
About 16 minutes once the audio is in. Speed runs near 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 4-hour House committee session is usually ready in about 8. Fetching a long replay from YouTube adds a short wait at the start, and you can close the tab while it works.
What does a full hearing cost?
An 8-hour hearing is 480 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. If you track an inquiry over five or six sessions, take the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes instead, about $0.36 an audio hour. Prices are in US dollars and the credits never expire.
The replay is longer than 6 hours. Can I start for free?
A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free on most recordings. Stream replays longer than 6 hours are the exception: they start once a pack is on the account, and then the whole session is transcribed in one go.
Does it handle Taglish and Filipino?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, Tagalog and Filipino among them, and a hearing that switches between English and Tagalog inside one exchange is handled in the same file. Spelling of names said quickly is worth a check against the video.
The hearing was longer than 10 hours. What then?
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A session that runs past that, or a hearing posted in two parts, goes in as two files, each with its own clock that matches its own video.
Is this an official record, and what can I download?
It is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from, not the chamber's official record and not a certified transcript. You can download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, and recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Other long recordings from the Philippines
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