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Transcribe Zoom recordings

Turn a Zoom meeting recording into text: a word-timed transcript, .srt and .vtt subtitle files and plain text. Microphone quality varies from person to person in meetings; a bad mic is the main source of transcript errors.

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Zoom
00:04You leave your neighborhood and set off on an adventure across the whole of Russia.
00:12The trip took eight months and nothing went the way I planned.
16languages
.srt .vtt .txtoutput formats
kelimetiming
3 samax source
özetand chapter titles
With this tool

What you get

How it works

Transcribe Zoom recordings: step by step

Try it free
01

Add the recording

Upload the file or paste the link.

02

Choose the language

Auto-detect is available; setting the language gives more accurate results.

03

Get the text

Transcript, .srt, .vtt and plain text download together.

What decides accuracy in a meeting recording

In meetings, people aren't in the same room and don't have the same microphone. Someone on a laptop's built-in mic is transcribed noticeably less accurately than someone on a headset. Asking participants to use headsets while recording beats any correction afterwards.

The second factor is crosstalk. When two people talk at once, the audio can't tell whose sentence is whose, and those parts come out mixed in the transcript.

  • You can download Zoom's cloud recording and upload it
  • If a local recording saves audio as a separate file, use that
  • Meeting recordings are deleted automatically after a while

What you get

  • Word-timed transcript
  • SRT and VTT subtitle files
  • Plain text (.txt)
  • A summary and suggested chapter titles
  • First-class English and Turkish, support for 16 languages

What affects accuracy?

The biggest factor is the microphone. A clean meeting recording is transcribed almost perfectly; background music, echoey rooms and people talking over each other raise the error rate. Names and brand names are spelled by ear, so it's worth reviewing the output once.

For long recordings the whole file isn't downloaded; only the audio is fetched first, so even hour-long recordings start quickly.

After the transcript

You can pull clips from the same recording right away: the transcript is already word-timed, so clip boundaries never land mid-sentence. No need to re-upload to burn in captions or translate.

With the text in hand, the recording itself becomes searchable: turning it into a blog post, a newsletter summary or show notes takes far longer without a transcript.

Which file formats are supported?

  • Audio: MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC
  • Video: MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI
  • Links: YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and direct file URLs
  • Output: .srt, .vtt, .txt and word-timed JSON

Privacy

The source file is kept only for a while so you can re-process it, then deleted automatically. For meeting and customer recordings that matters: nothing is used to train models. Your outputs stay in your account until you delete them.

FAQ

My meeting recording is confidential. Do you keep it?

The source file is kept only for a while so you can re-process it, then deleted automatically. It's never used to train models.

Do Teams and Google Meet recordings work too?

Yes. If the recording is a video or audio file, it doesn't matter which app made it.

How long can a recording be?

Recordings up to three hours are processed, within your plan's monthly minutes.

Does it separate speakers?

The transcript is word-timed; speaker labeling isn't available yet.

Do you keep my file?

The source file is kept only for a while so you can re-process it, then deleted automatically. Outputs stay in your account until you delete them.

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