Transcribe a Tagalog barangay or LGU session and draft the minutes from the brief.
A 3-hour Sangguniang Barangay or municipal session in Tagalog or Taglish is transcribed in about 6 minutes, with the motions, amounts and dates listed and members named in the summary. The first 20 minutes free let the secretary test it on one session, and two 3-hour sessions fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
For barangay and municipal secretaries
The secretary records the session so the minutes are right. The text is what makes the recording usable.
A first draft of the minutes
The brief states what the session took up and what it settled. The secretary edits it into the minutes instead of replaying three hours of audio.
Motions and amounts with their time
Budget figures, resolution titles, dates and the names said with them are listed with timestamps, so the minutes can quote the exact amount.
One chapter per agenda item
When the presiding officer calls the next item, a new chapter usually starts, which matches the order of business in the minutes.
Facebook Live sessions
A session streamed on Facebook needs to be downloaded first and then uploaded. A long video from the session hall can continue on the upload page.
Why minutes run late
Sessions run long, members speak at once, and the minutes are due at the next session.
✗ Writing minutes from the recording
The secretary takes notes during a long session, then replays the phone recording at home to fill the gaps. A three-hour session can take two evenings.
- Notes that miss who moved and who seconded
- Amounts written down and later doubted
- Three hours of replay per session
- Members speaking over one another
- Minutes that slip to the following week
- No search across past sessions
✓ The same session here
The session comes back as text, with the minutes' raw material sorted out of it.
- A brief of what the session took up
- Motions, amounts and dates with timestamps
- Chapters per agenda item
- Members named in summary and quotes
- Two 3-hour sessions on the $6 pack
- DOCX for the minutes, TXT for the archive
Sample output
An agenda item taken up in session.
Composed for this page to show the format; it records no real barangay, council or official.
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
Barangay and LGU session recordings, answered.
How long does a 3-hour session take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes, since processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 5-hour session takes about 10, so the draft can be ready before the members have left the hall.
What does a year of sessions cost?
Two sessions of 3 hours, 360 minutes, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Ten such sessions are 1,800 minutes and fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Twenty-four sessions of 3 hours, 4,320 minutes, fit the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
Is the transcript the official minutes?
No. It is a working text with timestamps for the secretary to draft from. The minutes the body approves remain its record, so read the draft against your notes before it goes to the members.
The recording is long and large. Can it go in whole?
Yes. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, so a full session is never split. Until the barangay account has its first pack, a file must be 2 GB or less; a bigger one begins after the pack is added.
Our session is partly in a regional language. Will it work?
Tagalog, Filipino and English are detected automatically, and Tagalog and English switches are handled. Sessions held in Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikol, Ilocano or Kapampangan are supported, but those come back as a fast first draft; plan one review pass by someone who was in the hall.
Which exports are there, and is the recording kept private?
DOCX for the minutes, TXT for the archive, plus SRT, VTT and JSON. For sessions that discuss residents by name: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
Related
More for public sessions.
Upload the session. Draft the minutes from the brief.
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