Use case · Council & board meetings

Start the minutes from a transcript, not a three-hour video.

Upload the meeting recording or paste the archive link. You get a timestamped transcript and automatic chapters, so finding who moved what, and when, takes seconds.

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The problem

The recording is the record. Nobody can search it.

Meetings run long, and drafting minutes means scrubbing back and forth through the video to confirm a motion, a vote or who said what during public comment.

Residents and staff ask the same question: when was that discussed? Without a transcript, the answer is somewhere in hours of footage.

How it works

Three steps from recording to text.

01
Add the recording
Upload the file, paste a public YouTube, Vimeo or direct media link, or connect a Dropbox folder or RSS feed.
02
We transcribe and segment it
Every word is timestamped, and automatic chaptering splits the meeting into titled segments.
03
Draft, search, publish
Use the transcript to draft minutes, jump to the exact moment of a vote, and export captions for the published video.
What you get

From one recording.

Timestamped transcript
Every word with its time, searchable and exportable. Included on every plan, including Free.
Chapters by segment
Automatically generated titled chapters, so a long recording becomes navigable.
Captions
SRT and VTT caption files for the published recording, for accessibility.
Translation
Transcripts in another language for multilingual communities (every plan, +1 credit per minute).
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does it write the minutes for us?

No. Minutes are an official record and should be written and approved by your clerk. Analyze gives you the transcript and chapters to draft them from, which is the slow part.

How long can a recording be?

Full meetings are fine. Processing is billed by the minute of audio, so a three-hour meeting uses about 180 credits for transcription.

Can we try it first?

Yes. A free account includes 5 credits (about 5 minutes of audio), and the free YouTube analyzer previews the first two minutes of a video up to 10 minutes long, no account needed.

Try it on your last meeting.
Create a free account and run a short clip, or preview a public video with the free analyzer.
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