What if your minutes wrote themselves during the meeting?
AI-assisted transcription and minutes for executive, legislative and committee meetings. Named speakers, your municipality's vocabulary, Word export on your template. Your data stays in Switzerland and people keep the final say.
5 free hours of transcription for municipalities, no commitment or credit card. A browser is all you need.
Monday, 10.30 pm
The municipal executive meeting ends after three hours of discussion. The following Wednesday, the minutes are still waiting, somewhere between hastily typed notes, handwritten pages and a recording that will have to be listened to again.
A two-hour meeting routinely turns into three to four hours of writing. A part-time secretary working evenings in small municipalities, a clerk's office juggling executive, legislative and committees in mid-sized ones, minutes still written by hand in cities despite meeting tools: the burden is the same.
How it works, no jargon
No installation, no app, no setup fees. Your IT department validates the tool against our compliance file, then all that's left is to try it.
Record or upload
During the meeting from the browser, or by uploading audio from a recorder or a video call.
The transcript arrives
A few minutes later: speakers named by their real names, your municipality's vocabulary, acronyms and place names correctly spelled.
Choose your minutes
Municipal minutes in direct or indirect speech, with your agenda integrated. Committee minutes coming soon.
Export and review
Word export on your template. The authoritative version remains yours. Four national languages, Swiss German dialects included.
A full demonstration on a real case: the Renens municipal council
Rather than a long speech, we built the demonstration from the public documents available online alone:
- the meeting agenda;
- the meeting recording;
- the official minutes, for comparison. Video in French.
A choice your municipality can make on its own
The public-sector transcription market falls into two families: meeting management tools that add AI billed per user, and parliamentary platforms built for cantons and large cities. Swiss Transcript sits elsewhere: a light, sovereign building block, usable tomorrow, pooled across departments and tailored to your municipality. Our API, available very soon, opens a third way: some public bodies will prefer this more open approach, with control kept in-house and data that stays entirely with them.
1Purely internal
No interface with citizens, no dependence on a cantonal programme. Unlike an online citizen portal, the decision is made at municipal level, today.
2Reversible
Full self-service export of your data, no lock-in. You remain the owner of your recordings, transcripts and minutes.
3Not just minutes
HR interviews, committees and hearings, conciliations, inter-municipal working groups: the same account covers these uses, with the right template and a credit pooled across departments.
Tiered costs, no hidden fees
Public pricing, ready to use. A single credit for the whole municipality, no per-user licence: affordable for small municipalities and cities alike.
Pay as you go
10.- / audio hour
To test, or for a municipality that holds a few meetings a year. Credits never expire.
10-hour pack
6.- / audio hour
Prepaid, used at the pace of your meetings. The simplest option for a small municipality.
Annual subscription, 50 h per month
2.40 / audio hour
For a clerk's office covering executive, legislative and committees. Custom minutes template free, DPA included.
An Enterprise account pools the credit across up to 100 users in your departments; we convert existing individual accounts as soon as two people want to share the credit. For a specific need, we set up a low-cost pilot project whose results are then shared among municipalities. Full price list.
Confidentiality is our home ground
- AI hosting and processing on our own servers in Switzerland (open-source language models). No reliance on OpenAI, Google or Amazon.
- Never any model training on your data. Contractual commitment.
- Automatic deletion of uploaded audio files once transcription is complete; recordings made in the tool stay under your control and are deleted when you decide.
- Data processing agreement (DPA) provided to your data protection officer on request. Compliance file ready for your IT department.
“We build every minutes template with the clerks and secretaries who write them, from their real documents. That is what saves time from the very first meeting while keeping costs under control.” Esther Sève, co-founder of Swiss Transcript, Lausanne. Over 7,000 users on both sides of the Röstigraben.
Let's build what comes next together
5 free hours for your municipality
Test on your next meeting, not on a demo: write to us and we will credit 5 free hours of transcription, no commitment or credit card. Enough to process two full meetings and compare the resulting minutes with your own.
Questions from municipalities
Can a municipality choose a transcription tool on its own?
Yes. A transcription tool is purely internal: no interface with citizens, no dependence on a cantonal programme. Each municipality chooses its provider at its own scale and budget. The decision remains reversible: full self-service data export, no lock-in.
Where is municipal meeting data hosted?
Hosting and AI processing on our own servers in Switzerland, no reliance on OpenAI, Google or Amazon, never any model training on your data. Uploaded audio files are deleted automatically once transcription is complete. A data processing agreement (DPA) is provided to your data protection officer on request.
How much does transcribing a municipal council meeting cost?
CHF 10 per audio hour individually, CHF 6 in a 10-hour pack, CHF 2.40 with an annual subscription of 50 hours per month. A single credit for the whole municipality, no per-user licence, no setup fees or hidden costs.
Which minutes templates exist for municipalities?
The municipal minutes template is available in direct and indirect speech, with a feature that integrates your agenda. A committee minutes template is coming soon. For a specific format, we build the template with your clerks and secretaries from your real documents.
Are Swiss German and the other national languages supported?
Yes, the four national languages and English, Swiss German dialects included. 60% of Swiss Transcript users work in German-speaking Switzerland.