Express Transcriber writes draft minutes for city councils, planning commissions and county boards — set in the template your body already adopts. Upload the recording, add the agenda, and the draft comes back within three business days, ready to edit and put on the next agenda.
72 hrs
Standard turnaround
100%
Human-reviewed accuracy
$1.25
Per audio minute
$0
Setup or software fee
Send the last minutes your body approved and we match it — heading block, agenda numbering, motion and vote language, the phrasing your council is used to reading. The draft arrives as an editable Word file, not a wall of transcript.
Send a roster once and we keep it. Members, staff and recurring petitioners are labeled by name and title across every future meeting; public commenters are labeled as identified on the record.
Upload the file your recorder already saves, or share it from the drive you already use — Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or a Zoom cloud recording. Nothing to install and no seats to license.
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Upload the recording or link a downloadable copy, add the agenda, and note anything unusual.
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Speech recognition first, then a transcriber reads the whole file against the agenda.
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A Word file in your template, yours to change. No portal to learn, no tracked-changes ritual.
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Put it on the next agenda. Every draft stays in your account with the recording it came from.
You are billed for the length of the recording — nothing else. No license, no seats, no minimum, and no charge for corrections.
$1.25
Per audio minute
A two-hour council meeting is $150. A forty-minute commission hearing is $50. The figure is the same whether the room is quiet or crowded.
72 hrs
Standard delivery
Three business days from submission, however long the recording runs. Meetings that end late Monday are back before Friday's packet goes out.
$0
Everything else
Template setup, speaker rosters, corrections and re-listens are included. Billed monthly against a purchase order.
“We stopped writing minutes at midnight. The draft is back before the next packet goes out, and it already matches our template.”
One account per body, billed monthly against a purchase order. No minimum volume and no annual contract.