Turn meetings into Markdown your agent can read.

A 45-minute meeting recording lands in your agent's context. Native transcription isn't available — the agent sees a file it can't read. If you hand it raw audio bytes, you blow the context window before the first word is transcribed. If you transcribe it yourself with a DIY model, you're now maintaining a GPU pipeline to save 20 minutes of listening time.

Generic transcription tools return plain text that loses paragraph structure. You paste it into your agent and the agent has to guess where speaker turns happen, where topics shift, where the decisions landed. That guessing costs tokens and quality.

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   Drop the recording into your agent — drag a file in, paste a path, or run `/transcribe ./standup.mp3` in a Tier-A client like Claude Code or Codex. The Frenchie skill pack picks up the request and resolves the file path against your project directory, no manual upload step.

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   Your agent calls `transcribe_to_markdown` with the resolved path. Frenchie inspects the file, estimates credits (2 per minute), confirms your balance, and routes between the sync and async paths automatically based on duration — meetings under ~10 minutes complete inline, longer ones return a `jobId` immediately.

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   For long audio, Frenchie chunks the file at silence boundaries, transcribes the chunks in parallel, then stitches the result back together. Your agent isn't blocked: the smart-wait loop polls for up to 90 seconds, then hands control back so you can keep working in the same session.

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   When the job completes, the Markdown lands at `.frenchie/<filename>/result.md` next to the source file (stdio mode) or inline in the tool response (HTTP mode). Paragraph breaks are preserved so your agent can summarize, extract decisions, or answer follow-ups without re-reading raw audio.

• Jobs run async — your agent doesn't block. For a 30-minute meeting, expect roughly 3 minutes of processing time.
• Transcription is 2 credits per minute. A one-hour weekly standup all year is about 52 × $1.20 = $62.40.
• The result expires 30 minutes after first delivery. If your agent needs to revisit the Markdown later, ask for a fresh transcription or save the result to your own workspace.