Transcribe a planning commission meeting and find your parcel in it.
If you need to transcribe a planning commission meeting to find what was said about one property, drop the recording or paste the video link below. A five-hour meeting comes back in about 10 minutes, the first 20 minutes are free, and you can search the text for the parcel number, street address or case number.
Why planning meetings fit here
Your item, inside a five-hour agenda.
Search for the parcel
Land-use meetings move through many applications in one night, and yours may be item eleven. Search the transcript for the parcel number, the street or the applicant's case number and jump to each mention by its timestamp.
Conditions and numbers kept exact
Setbacks, building heights, unit counts, parking ratios and hearing dates are collected in the brief as they were said. Conditions of approval read into the record are easy to check against what you were later sent.
Staff, applicant and neighbours
Each item usually runs the same way: the staff report, the applicant's presentation, public comment, then deliberation. Chapters follow that shape, and speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
One long meeting, one small pack
A 5-hour meeting is 300 minutes, which the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers. A meeting video you were sent as a large file can be uploaded on the upload page, up to 5 GB.
Finding your item
Item eleven of a long night, found in seconds.
✗ Scrubbing the meeting video
The agenda lists your item, but the video has no marks for when it was heard or how long it took.
- Guessing where item eleven starts
- Conditions of approval half heard
- Neighbour comments mixed across items
- Heights and setbacks noted by ear
- No text to cite in an appeal letter
- Missing the continuance date that was set
✓ The meeting as searchable text
The recording comes back with chapters for each item and a brief that lists the conditions, figures and dates.
- Search for a parcel, address or case number
- Chapters for each application
- Conditions and figures listed in the brief
- Public comments found by street name
- About 10 minutes for a 5-hour meeting
- DOCX or TXT to quote from
Sample output
The conditions read into the record, with times.
A made-up excerpt for illustration, not a real commission meeting. Times are measured from the first second of the recording.
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
Planning commission recordings, answered.
How long does a 5-hour planning meeting take to transcribe?
Roughly 10 minutes, because transcription runs at about 2 minutes per hour of audio. A three-hour meeting is usually ready in around six. If an appeal or a comment deadline is close, that leaves the evening for writing rather than watching.
What does a 5-hour planning commission meeting cost?
300 minutes, which fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes and leaves 200 for a later continuance. A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free. Consultants who follow every meeting in a year can use the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes or the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
How large can the meeting video be?
Up to 5 GB and 10 hours per file. Before a pack is on the account, uploads go up to 2 GB; anything above that starts once a pack is bought. A posted YouTube video can simply be pasted as a link.
The item was continued to another meeting. Can I combine them?
Upload each meeting as its own file and you get two transcripts, each on its own timeline. Combining is unnecessary, and only a recording longer than 10 hours ever needs to be split.
Can I submit this transcript as the official record in an appeal?
No. It is an AI transcript with timestamps for finding and reviewing what was said, not a certified transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter, and not legal advice. Ask the jurisdiction how the official record is prepared.
Which exports can I download, and is the recording private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. The meeting audio you upload is transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and you can delete it with its transcript at any time.
Related
More long civic recordings.
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