Transcribe a school board meeting in Spanish and English so Spanish-speaking families can read it too.
A 3-hour school board meeting where parents speak Spanish through an interpreter comes back as text in about 6 minutes, and two such meetings, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 minutes free. The parents' Spanish and the board's English are transcribed on one timeline, so a family liaison can share what was said in the language it was said in.
For district staff, liaisons and parent groups
Parents who spoke at the microphone should be able to read what they said, and what the board answered.
A brief families can follow
The brief sets out what the meeting decided and its takeaways, and a liaison can translate a page of summary more easily than three hours of video.
Votes and figures in one place
Budget amounts, policy numbers, dates of upcoming meetings and the outcome of each vote are listed with timestamps.
The comment period kept whole
Each parent's comment comes back in the language they used, and the summary names the board members who responded.
Upload or link
If the district posts the meeting on YouTube, paste the link; otherwise download the file and send it through the upload page.
Where families lose the thread
A three-hour meeting video helps no one who needs the part about bus routes.
✗ Video and an agenda PDF
The district posts the recording, and Spanish-speaking parents have to find their topic by scrubbing through hours of mostly English discussion.
- No text to search for a school's name
- Spanish comments heard once and gone
- Liaisons translating from the video
- Minutes that sum up a comment in one line
- Captions in English only
- Parents who never hear the board's answer
✓ The board meeting, written out
Both languages in text, with the agenda's structure and the decisions pulled out.
- Search for a school, a route or a program
- Spanish comments kept as spoken
- Chapters per agenda item
- Vote outcomes and figures with times
- A chat that answers questions from the transcript
- Captions and a DOCX for translation
Sample output
A parent's comment on the school calendar, interpreted.
A sample made up for the page. It is not from a real district, board or parent.
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 in Spanish, answered.
How soon can we post the text?
About 6 minutes for a 3-hour meeting, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio; a long budget session of 4 hours takes about 8. That is fast enough to post the text alongside the video on the morning after the meeting.
What does a school year of board meetings cost?
Ten 3-hour meetings are 1,800 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Add special sessions and workshops past 2,000 minutes and the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers the year; credits never expire, so leftover minutes carry into the next one.
How big is the meeting file?
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, and up to 2 GB before your first pack. An audio-only export at 96 kbps is 96,000 times 3,600 divided by 8 bytes, about 43 MB per hour, so a 3-hour meeting is about 130 MB.
Will the parents' Spanish be transcribed correctly?
The meeting is detected on its main language and the Spanish switches are handled in the same pass, with 99 languages detected automatically. Before translating a comment for a newsletter, check it against the video where the interpreter and the parent talk over each other.
Can the board adopt this as its minutes?
It is an AI transcript to draft from. The board's approved minutes remain the official record, and a staff member should review any passage before it is published. A district can choose to translate the summary for families rather than the full text, which keeps the work to a page or two.
What does the district download, and is the recording private?
DOCX and TXT for the translator, SRT and VTT for captions, JSON for the website. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, which matters when parents talk about their own children.
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