Transcribe Tamil community meetings Tamil and English in one transcript.
A 2.5-hour Tamil association meeting is transcribed in about 5 minutes, detected on its main language with the switches into English handled in the same transcript. The first 20 minutes are free, and a year of monthly 2-hour committee meetings is 1,440 minutes, which fits on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
For committees and secretaries
Minutes written from what the meeting actually said, in both of its languages.
Two languages, one record
Committee members move between Tamil and English, often within one sentence. The meeting is detected on its main language and the switches are handled, so the treasurer's English figures and the chair's Tamil remarks sit in the same document.
A committee year on one pack
Four 2-hour meetings are 480 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. Twelve monthly 2-hour meetings are 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000, with room for a 3-hour AGM on top at 1,620. Prices are in US dollars and the credits carry over from one year to the next.
Every resolution, findable
The brief lists what was decided, chapters follow the agenda items with timestamps, and the amounts, dates and names said aloud come back as a list for the minutes. The chair, councillors and iwi representatives who spoke are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Any recorder will do
A phone on the table or a recorder in the hall is enough; upload the file as it is, usually an M4A or MP3. If a hybrid meeting was recorded on a call app, download the recording and upload it. Hours of hybrid-meeting video continue on upload page.
Why minutes come late
The meeting runs three hours, and the secretary writes the minutes from memory a week later.
✗ Minutes pieced from scribbles
Points made in Tamil and figures given in English are pieced together from scribbled notes and disputed at the next meeting. The secretary, usually a volunteer with a day job, spends evenings rebuilding what was said.
- Minutes written from memory
- Disputes over who agreed to what
- Tools that handle one language only
- An AGM recording nobody ever replays
- No timestamps to check a decision
- Hours spent typing after work
✓ Minutes drafted from the meeting's own audio
The full meeting in text, with decisions and amounts listed, the same evening.
- Roughly 5 minutes for a 2.5-hour AGM
- Both languages in a single document
- What was decided, listed
- Chair and members named in quotes
- One chapter per agenda point
- Twelve monthly meetings, one $12 pack
Sample
A committee meeting, moving between Tamil and English.
This sample is illustrative and written for this page; it is not from any real association or meeting. It shows Tamil and English kept as spoken in one transcript.
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
Tamil community meetings, answered.
How long does a 2.5-hour meeting take?
Near 5 minutes, because each audio hour takes about 2. A 3-hour AGM takes about 6, and a short 1-hour subcommittee about 2.
How much is a full committee year?
Twelve monthly 2-hour meetings are 1,440 minutes on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes, and a 3-hour AGM brings the year to 1,620. A season of four meetings, 480 minutes, fits the $6 pack of 500. An association new to WhipScribe has the first 20 minutes free.
Does the recording need cutting?
No. One file can be up to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first, and before the first pack uploads go up to 2 GB. A full evening meeting fits easily.
How are Tamil and English handled together?
The recording is detected on its main language, and switches into the other language are handled in the same transcript. Members' names and local place names are worth one check before the minutes go out.
Can the transcript become the minutes?
It is the record to write minutes from. Download the DOCX, use the brief's list of decisions and the chapters for the agenda items, and trim the discussion to the form your constitution asks for.
What comes back, and who can hear the meeting audio?
The meeting downloads as DOCX for the secretary, plus TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON. Association meeting recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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