Your First Minutes — What to Expect

Your First Minutes

You've created your account and you're ready to upload your first recording. Here's what to expect.

Set up boards first.  You can upload minutes without boards but you won't take advantage of MuniMins  intelligent infrastructure.  If you can create the board and members first you'll save a lot of time later on!  See Creating Boards.

Upload your recording. Click New Minutes in the sidebar. Select your board, enter the meeting date and time, choose a detail level, and either upload a file or paste a link from a supported platform. Click Upload & Process.

Wait for processing. Your recording goes into the Processing Queue. Processing time depends on meeting length and server load, but, typically minutes will be done within 10 minutes. Rather than wait, you can close the page and come back later or another day. The queue shows real-time status updates.

Identify speakers. Open the Speaker Training Window to start building voice profiles for speakers in the meeting.  

Review the output. When processing finishes, open your minutes from All Minutes or the Processing Queue. You'll see formal third-person minutes with motions, votes, roll call, and attendance.  Each motion is highlighted in bold with vote counts.  Above the minutes you'll see banner for Transcript and Speaker Identification.

Validate Motions. Each motion will be pulled out from the text, shown in bold with clear indicators for the member who made the motion and the member who seconded.  Validate every motion though our Validation Interface.  

What to do next

Process a second meeting for the same board. If you have completed speaker training you will notice improved recognition of voices in motions.