Transcribe state legislature committee hearings straight from the archived stream.
A state legislature committee hearing in the US can stream for 3 to 8 hours, and WhipScribe transcribes a 6-hour recording in about 12 minutes, with the first 20 minutes free. When the archived stream is on YouTube, paste the link; a 6-hour hearing is 360 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
From the committee stream to searchable testimony
A bill's hearing can take an afternoon and an evening. Find the testimony you need in seconds.
Paste the archived stream instead
Many legislatures archive committee video, and some publish it on YouTube, including live-stream replays. Paste that link and nothing has to be downloaded. When the archive is on the legislature's own video player, save the file where the site offers a download and upload it.
Long hearings, one timeline
A hearing with dozens of witnesses can run past six hours. One file here holds up to 10 hours, so the whole hearing keeps one clock. A YouTube live replay longer than 6 hours starts once a pack is on the account, and a file over 2 GB does the same.
Who testified, and on which bill
Chapters follow the agenda bill by bill, and the brief lists the bill numbers, amendment numbers and dates spoken aloud. Committee members and witnesses are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. upload page
A working copy, not the official record
The transcript is a working copy with timestamps, for reporters, advocates and staff who need to find what was said. It is not a certified or official transcript; the legislature's own record governs.
Why committee archives are slow to work from
The testimony you need is somewhere in a six-hour archive.
✗ Scrubbing the archive
Reporters and advocates scrub through hours of committee video to find one witness.
- Six hours of video for one bill
- Auto-captions with no structure
- No list of who testified when
- Downloads that fail on long files
- Bill numbers misheard by ear
- Quotes copied without a time
✓ Every hearing as text
Paste the link and the hearing comes back with chapters, a brief and a full transcript.
- Six hours of hearing in about 12 minutes
- Chapters per bill on the agenda
- Legislators and witnesses named in the summary
- Bill and amendment numbers with times
- SRT or VTT to caption a clip
- DOCX for a story or memo
Sample
A committee hearing on a housing bill.
Illustrative only: written for this page and not taken from any real legislature, committee or bill. Times count from the start of the stream.
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
Committee hearing recordings, answered.
How long does a 6-hour committee hearing take?
About 12 minutes after the link or file is in, at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 3-hour hearing takes about 6.
What does a legislative session's worth of hearings cost?
One 6-hour hearing is 360 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. A 9-hour hearing is 540 minutes, past that pack, so it belongs on the $12 pack of 2,000. Twelve 4-hour hearings are 2,880 minutes on the $24 pack of 5,000. New visitors get a hearing's first 20 minutes free.
What if the hearing ran past 10 hours?
Split it into two files at a recess and transcribe each; one file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Each part keeps its own timestamps from zero, so note which half is which.
Is this the official transcript of the hearing?
No. It is a working transcript for finding and quoting testimony, and the legislature's own record remains the authority.
Witnesses testified in Spanish. Is that handled?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a hearing that moves between English and Spanish is detected on its main language with the switches handled.
Which formats are available, and is the recording private?
Each hearing exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON. Committee hearing recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
Related
Paste the committee's stream link. Testimony you can search and quote.
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