Meeting Transcription

Transcribe a meeting recording

Distributed teams, project managers and compliance functions who need a record of what was decided rather than a recording nobody will ever replay.

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What makes meeting recordings hard

Meetings are the hardest common case. Several people at different distances from one microphone, talking over each other, using internal jargon and product names that exist nowhere in any training data. Conference room audio with its echo makes all of that worse.

A workflow that holds up

1

Record from the conferencing app rather than a phone on the table — app audio comes from each participant's own microphone.

2

Upload the export directly; MP4 meeting recordings do not need audio extraction unless they are oversized.

3

Search the transcript for decision words rather than reading it end to end.

4

Keep the timestamped version alongside the recording as your record.

Things worth knowing first

  • Ask people to say their name before speaking in the first few minutes — it makes the transcript far easier to attribute.
  • Internal acronyms will come out wrong. A find-and-replace pass on your five most common ones fixes most of it.
  • Remote participants on poor connections transcribe worst; note that before relying on their section.

What you get back

Every job returns both versions. Take whichever fits the job.

Clean transcript for reading and editing
Thanks everyone for joining. Let's start with last month's numbers. I'll share my screen so you can follow along. The headline is that renewals came in ahead of forecast for the third quarter running.
Timestamped for subtitles and citation
[00:00 → 00:04] Thanks everyone for joining.
[00:04 → 00:09] Let's start with last month's numbers.
[00:09 → 00:14] I'll share my screen so you can follow along.

An illustration of the two output formats. Not the result of any particular recording.

Questions about meeting transcription

Not into labelled speakers. You get continuous text with timestamps, which for decision records is usually enough.
Yes. All three export MP4 or M4A by default and both upload directly.
It is a record, not a certified transcript. Anything with legal weight should be verified against the audio.

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