Transcribe a meeting recording

1. 1Choose your a meeting recording.
2. 2Pick the language, or leave it on Detect automatically.
3. 3Press "Transcribe". Fix any word, then copy the text or save it as TXT, SRT or VTT.

Choose the recording file that Zoom, Teams or Meet saved, or a phone recording of the room. Nothing joins the call and nothing is sent to a server, so it also works for meetings that must stay private.

Copy the text into your notes app and write the decisions and action items at the top. The times next to each line help when someone asks what exactly was agreed.

When several people talk at once, those lines come out worse. Lines are split at pauses; the model does not label who is speaking.

• The text, split where the speaker pauses. Fix any word right in the page.
• Times for every line. Click a time to hear that part again.
• Copy it, or save it as a text file (TXT) or as subtitles (SRT or VTT) for a video player or YouTube.
• Translate to English: speech in another language comes out as English text.

The first time, your browser downloads the speech model (145 MB). It is kept for next time, so later recordings start at once.

In our test, a 96-second lecture took about 5 seconds on a Mac laptop in a Chrome-based browser, using the graphics chip. Without one, the same laptop took about 32 seconds. Phones are slower. You see the text appear while it works.

Clear speech in English gives the fewest mistakes. Other languages work too, with more mistakes; names and rare words are the usual errors, so read it through before you share it.