Step one
Getting your transcript
Almost every meeting you had this week already produced one. It is usually two clicks away and sitting in a folder doing nothing.
- Zoomtimestamps
Zoom writes a transcript for any cloud recording. Here is where it lives and how to export it.
Read the steps → - Microsoft Teamstimestamps
Teams keeps the transcript with the meeting chat. Here is how to download it as a file.
Read the steps → - Google Meettimestamps
Meet saves transcripts to the organiser’s Google Drive. Here is where to look.
Read the steps → - Otter.aitimestamps
Three dots, Export, then a format with speaker names and timestamps on. The free plan exports TXT. The steps on the web and in the mobile app.
Read the steps → - Fireflies.aitimestamps
Open the meeting, click Download, choose Transcript and a format: PDF, DOCX, SRT, CSV, JSON or MD. Downloading needs a paid plan.
Read the steps → - Granola
Granola shows your notes first. The full transcript is one click away: the waveform icon at the bottom of the note, then the copy icon. Desktop and iPhone.
Read the steps → - Webextimestamps
Webex produces a transcript alongside a cloud recording. Here is where the host finds it.
Read the steps → - Fathomtimestamps
Fathom keeps a full transcript next to every recorded call, with a copy option built in.
Read the steps → - Gongtimestamps
Gong transcribes every recorded call. Here is how to get the text out of one.
Read the steps → - tl;dvtimestamps
tl;dv records Zoom and Meet calls and keeps a searchable transcript with every one.
Read the steps → - Graintimestamps
Grain keeps a timestamped transcript with every recorded call, next to the highlights.
Read the steps → - Tactiqtimestamps
Tactiq transcribes Meet, Zoom and Teams from the browser, with no bot in the call. How to export a transcript, and how to pause or remove Tactiq.
Read the steps → - Avomatimestamps
Avoma transcribes and analyses meetings; the raw transcript sits under the notes.
Read the steps → - Slack huddles
Slack writes a transcript for recorded huddles, in the channel where the huddle happened.
Read the steps →
Got one? Try it free and see how you sounded.
Common questions
- Which meeting platforms produce a usable transcript?
- Most of them, including ones people do not think of as transcription tools. Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and Webex all write one for a cloud recording, and Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, Gong, Grain, Tactiq, Avoma, tl;dv, Read and Granola exist to produce them. The general rule is simpler than the list: if it exports text with speaker labels, it works.
- Do I need the recording as well as the transcript?
- No. The text alone is enough, and asking a host for a transcript file is a much smaller request than asking for a video of the call. Nothing here reads audio.
- What if my transcript has no timestamps?
- Everything still works except speaking pace and interruptions, which genuinely cannot be derived from text without them. Those are reported as unavailable with the reason, rather than estimated, because a number invented from nothing is worse than no number.
- What if I was not the meeting host?
- On most platforms recordings live in the host’s library, so you would need to ask. It is worth being specific that you want the transcript file rather than the recording; it is a far easier thing for someone to send.