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Meeting to text

Meeting to text

To turn a meeting recording into text, save the Zoom, Meet, Teams or phone recording and upload it to TryScriptorium. You get a timestamped transcript with speaker labels you can rename, which you can edit and export. It never joins the call. One file up to 15 minutes and 25 MB is free with no account.

Upload the recording your meeting software already saved — Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and plain audio/video files all work the same way — and get back a timestamped transcript with each speaker labelled, so a meeting becomes something you can search and skim instead of re-watch.

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Key facts

How to transcribe a meeting recording

  1. Save the recording. Download the recording from your meeting tool, or record audio on your phone.
  2. Upload it. Drop the audio or video file into the box.
  3. Start the transcript. Choose the language and start.
  4. Rename the speakers. Replace Speaker 1, Speaker 2 with real names.
  5. Export. Download TXT or Markdown for the notes.

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Where the recording comes from

This page does not connect to Zoom, Meet or Teams directly — there is no live meeting integration, and that is stated here rather than implied otherwise. What it needs is the recording file each of those already produces once a call ends: Zoom and Teams save to local disk or cloud depending on the account's settings, and Google Meet recordings land in Google Drive. Download that file, then drop it in above.

What comes back

A transcript with a timestamp on every line and, when more than one person spoke, each turn labelled by speaker — worked out from the sound of each voice, not from meeting metadata, so it works the same way whether the recording is a Zoom export or a phone call with no participant list at all.

  • Speaker labels you rename to real names once, up to eight speakers.
  • Timestamped text to jump back to the moment a decision was made.
  • Markdown export for a formatted record you can share or archive.
  • Full-text search across every meeting transcript, with a free account.

Video call or phone call, same process

The picture in a Zoom or Meet recording is never read — only the audio track — so a video-call recording and an audio-only phone-call recording go through exactly the same pipeline. Phone audio is narrowband and transcribes a little less well than a video call's audio, which is a property of the phone network, not of this process.

How it works

  1. Add a recording

    Drop in a video or audio file, choose one from your device, or record from the microphone. Nothing to install.

  2. It transcribes

    Speech becomes timestamped text, with speaker labels when more than one person talks.

  3. Read, fix, export

    Click any line to correct it, then download TXT, subtitles, Markdown, JSON or CSV.

Questions

Does this connect to Zoom, Google Meet or Teams directly?
No. There is no live meeting integration or bot that joins a call. Upload the recording file each of those platforms saves after the call ends.
Can it tell who said what in the meeting?
Yes, up to eight speakers, labelled by the sound of each voice and renamed to real names in one place. It does not read any participant list from the meeting software.
Is meeting transcription free?
Yes — one recording up to 15 minutes and 25 MB with no account.
Does it work with an audio-only conference call, not a video meeting?
Yes. Only the audio is ever used, so a phone-call recording with no picture at all works the same way as a Zoom or Meet recording.
Should I tell people they are being transcribed?
Yes. Get consent before recording and before transcribing, and follow your organisation's rules.
Can it write meeting minutes?
It produces the transcript. You can export Markdown and write the summary yourself.
Is it suitable for confidential meetings?
The hosted site processes files on our server. For privileged or contractually restricted meetings, use the self-hosted option.
What if two people talk at once?
Crosstalk lowers accuracy and speaker separation. Review those passages.
How long a meeting can I upload?
Up to 15 minutes without an account; longer with an account.

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