Take the recording Zoom already made — cloud or local — and read the meeting back with every speaker named and every line timestamped.
Getting the recording out
A cloud recording waits in your Zoom recordings list. A local one lands in the Zoom folder on the computer that hosted, once the meeting has finished converting.
Zoom saves an audio-only file next to the video. It uploads faster and transcribes exactly the same, so there is no reason to send the video.
Drop the file into the box above, choose the language spoken and turn on speaker recognition. No account needed for the first file.
Rename the speakers once, correct any name the model guessed, then export DOCX or PDF for the people who were not on the call.
Zoom will hand you a transcript on some plans, and it is fine for a quick scan — until it meets a person’s name, a product or an accent it has not heard before, which is exactly what you end up quoting. Here you see the text before it becomes the record: fix the words that matter, rename the speakers, click any line to hear it said again, then export a file the room can read.
FAQ
Either works. Cloud recordings download from your recordings list; local ones sit in the Zoom folder on the host’s computer once the meeting has finished converting. The audio-only file transcribes as well as the video and uploads faster.
You need the file, whoever made it. Zoom only lets the host record, so if someone else ran the meeting, ask them for the recording or the share link.
When people take turns, yes — each line is labelled and you rename the speakers once. Two people talking at once, or a room sharing one laptop microphone, is where any tool struggles; you can merge or relabel afterwards.
| YouTube and other links | Paste a YouTube link: the audio itself is transcribed, so videos without captions work, up to 10 hours per video. Links from TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SoundCloud, Google Drive work too. |
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| One file, no subscription | $5 unlocks the whole file, whatever its length up to 10 hours. One payment, nothing renews. |
| Try before paying | No account: the first 5 minutes of each file, 1 file a day. Free account: the first 15 minutes of each file, 3 files a day, 90 minutes a month. |
| Unlimited plan | $15 a month or $90 a year: files up to 10 hours and 5 GB, 50 files at once. (campaign price until October 31) |
| Export formats | Unlimited plan and any unlocked file: TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and PDF. Free plan: TXT. |
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