Transcribe a Somali community meeting in Sweden and give every member the same record.
A 3-hour Somali-language community meeting recorded in Sweden is transcribed in about 6 minutes, with Somali detected automatically and the agenda broken into timestamped chapters. The first 20 minutes are free, and two such meetings, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
For whoever holds the recorder
Long meetings settle real questions. Members who were not there deserve to read what was settled.
A first draft, then one read
Somali output is a fast first draft, plan one review pass: someone who was in the room reads it once and fixes names and terms before it is shared.
Chapters through a long evening
Each point on the agenda, from youth activities to the treasurer's report, gets a chapter with a timestamp, so a three-hour recording is easy to move through.
Decisions in a few lines
The brief lists what was agreed, who takes it forward and the dates mentioned, a solid start for the written summary.
Recorded on a phone
A 3-hour voice memo at 64 kbps is about 86 MB, which goes straight into the box on this page; a long hall video can go through the upload page.
Why meetings are retold, not recorded
Three hours of discussion, and next week everyone remembers a different version.
✗ Word of mouth
Notes are partial, the recording sits on one phone, and absent members hear a summary second-hand.
- No written record in Somali
- Disagreement over what was decided
- A three-hour file nobody replays
- Elders and youth told different versions
- Tools that do not expect Somali
- Volunteers typing late at night
✓ A written draft
The recording becomes Somali text with chapters and a list of decisions within minutes of upload.
- The meeting as Somali text
- The chair and each speaker named in the summary
- Agenda points as chapters
- Decisions and dates listed
- DOCX to edit and share
- A chat to check any point raised
Sample output
A community meeting in Somali, at the points members ask about later.
Illustrative only, written for this page and not taken from any real association or meeting. In English: welcome everyone, we are opening today's meeting; the first item is the children's holiday education programme; we need volunteers next Saturday; the meeting report will be sent by email.
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
- AI chat over the whole 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
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Somali community meetings, answered.
How fast is a 3-hour meeting transcribed?
In about 6 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 2-hour meeting is ready in about 4. The whole recording stays one file, breaks included, and the timestamps show where the discussion picked up again after a break.
Members mix Somali with English and Swedish. What happens?
Somali is detected as the main language, and English mixed into the speech is handled in the same transcript. A recording that switches language is detected on its main language, so a long part held only in Swedish is better sent as a separate file.
What do several meetings cost?
Two 3-hour meetings, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Eleven of them, 1,980 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and twenty-four, 4,320 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. All prices are in US dollars, paid once, and credits never expire.
Can the text serve as the association's official minutes?
The text is an AI transcript for working from, not a certified or official record. Use it to write the minutes, then approve them the way the association normally does.
Is there a length or size limit?
One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB; before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB. A meeting longer than 10 hours is uploaded as two files.
What can we download, and is the recording private?
Downloads come as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON files. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so the discussion stays with the community.
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