Transcribe a school board meeting and draft the minutes from it.
Want to transcribe a school board meeting that ran four hours or more? Paste the replay link or drop the file below: one file holds up to 10 hours, four hours is ready in about 8 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free. The brief and chapters give you a first draft of the minutes before you open the full transcript.
Why board meetings fit here
From a four-hour replay to minutes you can edit.
The replay link is enough
Most districts stream board meetings and leave the replay on YouTube. Paste that link and the meeting is transcribed without anyone downloading a file; a recording kept on a district computer can go through the upload page instead.
A draft of the minutes
The brief states what the meeting covered and the takeaways. Chapters follow the agenda: the consent items, the superintendent's report, the budget presentation, public comment and each action item, so the minutes start half written.
Votes and numbers with their times
Motions, seconds, roll calls and every figure in the budget discussion are pulled into the brief with the moment each was said. When a member asks what the bond amount was, the answer is one search away.
A whole school year on one pack
One 4-hour meeting is 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Twenty meetings of about four hours each come to 4,800 minutes, which the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers for the year.
The week after the meeting
Writing minutes from the replay, or from a draft.
✗ Minutes from a four-hour replay
The clerk or board secretary watches the meeting a second time, pausing every few minutes to catch a motion.
- A second viewing of a four-hour meeting
- Roll-call votes checked by rewinding
- Public comment speakers hard to keep track of
- Budget numbers copied from a paused frame
- Parents asking what was decided on an item
- Minutes posted weeks after the meeting
✓ A draft before the first edit
The meeting comes back as text with chapters that follow the agenda, and the brief already holds the decisions and figures.
- Chapters that track each agenda item
- Motions and votes listed with timestamps
- Budget figures collected in the brief
- Public comments found by topic
- DOCX ready to edit into minutes
- SRT to caption the posted replay
Sample output
Item 9, three hours in, ready to quote.
Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page and are not from any district's meeting. Times are counted from the start 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
School board meeting recordings, answered.
How fast is a 4-hour board meeting transcribed?
In about 8 minutes, since it takes roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A five-hour budget meeting usually takes about ten. The clerk can have the text of a Tuesday night meeting open on Wednesday morning, with chapters that already line up with the printed agenda.
What does transcribing a 4-hour board meeting cost?
A 4-hour meeting is 240 minutes on the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free for a first-time visitor. A full year of around twenty meetings fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so leftover minutes carry into the next school year.
Our meeting video is large. Will it upload?
Files up to 5 GB are accepted, and a file up to 2 GB can start before any pack is bought. Above 2 GB, the pack comes first. Pasting the YouTube replay link avoids the file size question entirely.
What if a meeting and a closed session were recorded separately?
Upload each recording on its own and they come back as two transcripts with their own clocks. Splitting is only ever needed for a single file that runs past 10 hours.
Can the transcript serve as the official minutes?
Not by itself. It is an AI transcript with timestamps to draft from, not a certified transcript, not a substitute for a court reporter, and not legal advice. The board still approves its minutes in the usual way.
Which formats come out, and is the recording private?
DOCX and TXT for drafting minutes, SRT and VTT for captioning the replay, and JSON for anything else. Board recordings are transcribed on servers we operate, and we never train on them.
Related
Other long meetings.
Paste last night's replay. Start the minutes from a draft.
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