Transcribe a Taglish barangay session and write the minutes from it.
A Sangguniang Barangay or municipal session recorded in Taglish can be transcribed here as one file: a 3-hour session comes back in about 6 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free. Tagalog/Filipino and English are detected automatically and kept as they were spoken, and a $6 pack (500 minutes) covers the rest of the session with room for the next one.
What a session recording becomes
From call to order to adjournment, as text the secretary can work from.
Tagalog and English, as said
Session talk moves between Filipino and English inside one sentence, most of all when an ordinance title, a resolution number or a budget line is read out. The language is detected without a setting, and each switch stays in the transcript where it happened. Members who read a committee report in English and then argue it in Tagalog are kept in one continuous record, not two half-transcripts.
One file for the whole sitting
One file holds up to 10 hours or 5 GB. A regular session of three hours, or a budget deliberation that fills the afternoon, goes in as a single upload on upload page, with one timeline from the opening prayer to the motion to adjourn.
A head start on the minutes
The brief lists the matters taken up and the points agreed, with the names, amounts and dates that were said. Chapters follow the order of business, so each agenda item can be checked against the recording before the minutes are written in the barangay's own format.
Bought once, used all year
$6 buys 500 minutes, enough for two regular sessions of about three hours each with time left over. The credits never expire, so a council that meets twice a month buys again only when the balance runs low.
Where session recordings get stuck
Hours of Taglish audio, and a secretary with a deadline.
✗ Typing the minutes from the recording
Writing up a long session by hand takes many times its length, and most tools assume one language per file. Session halls echo, members speak from their seats, and a phone on the secretary's table hears the chair best and the far end of the room least.
- Rewinding the same motion three times
- Tools that expect English only
- Code-switching dropped or garbled
- A Facebook Live replay with no text
- No timestamps when a member questions the minutes
- A free tier that ends early in the session
✓ One upload per session
The whole session returns as text on one clock, plus a brief to draft from.
- About 6 minutes for a 3-hour session
- Tagalog/Filipino detected automatically
- Members named in the summary, quotes and chapters
- Chapters in the order of business
- DOCX for the minutes file
- First 20 minutes free, then packs from $6
Sample
A session excerpt, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from a real session. Names are left out, and timestamps count from the start of the file.
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: the usual questions.
How long does a 3-hour session take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes. Processing runs at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 5-hour municipal session is ready in about 10, and the transcript waits in your Library if you close the tab. Sessions recorded on a phone, a laptop or the camera used for the Facebook stream all work the same way.
What does a 3-hour session cost, and a year of them?
A 3-hour session is 180 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor, and the $6 pack (500 minutes) transcribes the rest. A year of two 3-hour sessions a month is 72 hours, or 4,320 minutes, which fits the $24 pack (5,000 minutes).
The session was streamed on Facebook Live. Can I paste that link?
Not directly. Download the Facebook replay first, then upload the file. A session posted on YouTube, or saved in Google Drive, can be pasted as a link with nothing to upload.
How big can the session file be, and when do I split it?
Each file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, and a larger video starts once a pack is on the account. Only a session longer than 10 hours needs splitting, into two files.
How well does it handle Taglish and regional languages?
Tagalog/Filipino and English come back cleanly, mid-sentence switches included. Passages in Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or another regional language are transcribed by the same model with lower accuracy, so treat them as a fast first draft and plan one review pass before they go into the minutes. Place the recorder near the chair and the secretary rather than at the back of the hall; that does more for accuracy than anything else.
Which formats come out, and who can see the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON from the same run, and DOCX is the easiest start for written minutes. Session recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a session and its transcript whenever you choose.
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Other sessions and hearings
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