Transcribe a Waray barangay or LGU session and start the minutes from a brief.
A 3-hour Sangguniang Barangay or municipal session in Waray and English becomes text in about 6 minutes, with the motions, amounts and dates listed in a brief. The first 20 minutes are free, and two 4-hour sessions, 480 minutes together, fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes.
For barangay secretaries and LGU staff
The secretary sits through the whole session and still has to write it up. The recording can carry most of that work.
Draft minutes from the brief
The brief sets out what the session was about, what was agreed and what was deferred. It is a starting draft for the minutes, which the secretary then checks and signs off.
Motions and money, with the minute
Resolution titles, budget amounts, project names and dates said on the floor are listed with timestamps, so a figure in the minutes can be checked against the audio.
The order of business as chapters
Roll call, reading of the previous minutes, committee reports, new business and the open forum each get a chapter, which makes a long session easy to navigate.
Phone, recorder or livestream
A phone recording uploads directly. A session streamed to YouTube can be pasted as a link, and a Facebook replay is downloaded first, then sent through the upload page.
Why minutes fall behind
A long session with several speakers and two languages is hard to minute by hand.
✗ Minutes written from handwritten notes
The chair moves fast, a councillor answers in Waray, a resident speaks from the floor, and the figures in the notes do not match the ones on the projector. Residents asking for a copy of what was said about their purok wait until someone has time to listen again.
- Motions recorded without who seconded
- Amounts written down wrongly
- Open forum comments left out
- Waray remarks missing from the record
- No searchable archive of past sessions
- Days of replay before the next session
✓ The same session here
The recording comes back as text, with the business of the session pulled into a brief.
- A brief with agreements and deferred items
- Amounts, dates and project names with timestamps
- Chapters per agenda item
- Residents' questions from the open forum, listed
- Two 4-hour sittings within the $6 pack
- DOCX ready to shape into minutes
Sample output
A session chair and a member speaking Waray and English.
Written for this page as an example of the layout. It is not from a real barangay, council or session.
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
Waray barangay and LGU sessions, answered.
How quickly is a long session ready?
A 3-hour session takes about 6 minutes and a 5-hour budget hearing about 10, at about 2 minutes of processing per hour of audio.
What would a full year of sessions cost?
Twenty-four sessions of 3 hours each come to 4,320 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. A single month with two 3-hour sessions is 360 minutes, on the $6 pack. All prices are in USD, and the credits never expire. Special sessions and public consultations add their own hours, so check the total against the pack table before buying.
Does the transcript replace the session's official minutes?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps for the secretary to work from, not an official or certified record of the session. The minutes the body approves remain the record.
How accurate is Waray in a session?
English and Tagalog come back cleanly, and a session that switches between them is handled. Waray is supported but trails the major languages, so take the Waray parts as a fast first draft and plan one review pass before anything goes into the minutes.
Do we have to cut a long recording?
No. One recording can run to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever arrives first. Until a pack is bought, the upload ceiling is 2 GB, and a heavier session file begins once a pack is on the account.
Which formats come back, and who can see the session audio?
The session exports as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. For council business: recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and a session can be deleted together with its transcript at any time.
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