Transcription services in Davao for sessions that outlast the note-taker.
A 4-hour session recorded in Davao, in the Bisaya and Tagalog mix the city speaks, comes back as text in about 8 minutes, and two of them fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes after the first 20 minutes free. Everything happens online in your browser; there is no Davao office, and prices are in USD.
For Davao secretariats, researchers and teams
The longest recordings in an office are the ones nobody has time to replay. Start from the text instead.
Sessions broken into items
Chapters follow the order of business with titles and timestamps, so the item that took ninety minutes of debate is one click away.
The numbers that went on record
Amounts, dates, ordinance numbers and names said aloud are pulled into a list, each with the minute it was said, for the minutes or the follow-up letter. Check each one against the recording before it goes into an official document.
Questions answered, listed
The brief lists the questions the recording answers. Ask the chat over the transcript for anything else, such as what was decided about a road project, and it answers from the text with the timestamp to check.
A backlog of sessions
Paste a Google Drive folder of past sessions to work through a backlog, or send a large camera file through the upload page.
Why minutes run late
A secretary taking notes by hand writes down the decision and loses the reasons.
✗ Minutes pieced together from replays
Long sessions in mixed languages are hard to capture live, and the recording gets replayed in pieces for days after.
- Notes that miss what was said while writing
- Replays to confirm a single figure
- Language switches that slow every typist
- A camera file too big to email
- No index of who raised which point
- Minutes approved long after the session they record
✓ Working from the transcript
The full session as text, with its structure and the points to confirm already pulled out.
- Text of the whole session in minutes
- Each item of business in a chapter of its own
- Councillors and guests named in the summary
- Every figure and date tied to its minute
- Search for a word across the year's sessions
- A DOCX to build the minutes on
Sample output
A council-style session moving between Bisaya, Tagalog and English.
Made up for this page as an example of the format. It is not a real session, official or project.
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
Transcription in Davao, answered.
How long before a session is ready to read?
Roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 4-hour session is ready about 8 minutes after it is uploaded. The public proof page shows a 4.94-hour file done in 372 seconds.
What do four sessions a month cost?
One 4-hour session uses 240 minutes, so two fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Four in a month are 960 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 1,040 minutes left, and a larger backlog goes on the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
When is a human transcription service the better choice?
When the transcript is the official record, or when someone must certify it, a human service or a court reporter is the right call. This is an AI transcript with timestamps for working from, not a certified transcript and not legal advice. Draft your minutes and research notes from it.
Can a long camera file of a session be uploaded?
Yes: a file may run to 10 hours or 5 GB, whichever comes first. A file over 2 GB starts once a pack is on the account, and a session posted on YouTube can be pasted as a link instead of uploaded. A long camera recording that will not fit can be converted to MP3, which shrinks it to a fraction of the size without losing the speech.
How well does it handle Davao's mix of languages?
Tagalog, Filipino and English are detected automatically, and English and Tagalog switches in one recording are handled. Bisaya is supported, but its accuracy trails the major languages, so treat it as a fast first draft and plan one review pass.
Which exports, and who can read the recordings?
Exports come as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, ready for the minutes. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and a session can be deleted with its transcript once the minutes are done.
Related
More for sessions and Bisaya recordings.
Upload the session recording. Write the minutes from the text, not the tape.
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