Creating voice recordings of meetings can ease the burden of maintaining accurate and fully transparent local government records.
Obviously, comprehensive and accurate record keeping is extremely important at all levels of government. However, at the local government level, the costs involved in keeping a true and precise record of what was said can be proportionally more significant.
151-151 can help reduce the overheads associated with keeping accurate records of local government meetings and other conversations. The software makes it easy to make sound recordings of meetings using any PC, tablet or smart-phone which is centrally located within the meeting room and connected to the appropriate portable microphone.
Once the meeting has concluded, the sound file is easily uploaded to the central sound repository database and can then easily be linked to an existing internal database or external website without any need for IT development. Copies of the meeting recording can also be easily distributed to all meeting attendees, or those who could not attend and any other interested parties.
The designated meeting secretary can also add “Tags” to specific “time-slots” within the recording, allowing people who playback the recording to easily navigate to the sections of the meeting which are of the most interest.
151-151 also includes options to convert recorded voice file to digital text which can then be easily indexed and searched.
Recording meetings, along with the 151-151 feature which allows you to link the recording to practically any internal database or external website, will greatly reduce the need to write the copious notes, which might otherwise be required to provide full transparency.