Meeting Recording to Text

Minutes without the note-taker

Somebody in every meeting is half-listening because they are writing. A transcript lets that person take part, and gives everyone else a record that says who committed to what. This page turns the first 5 minutes of a recording into text so you can judge the result on your own meeting audio — the accents, the crosstalk, the speakerphone — before running the whole hour through the app.

Getting the audio out of the meeting tool

Zoom saves an audio-only file (audio_only.m4a) next to the video when local recording is on. Microsoft Teams recordings land in OneDrive or SharePoint as MP4; the audio track inside is accepted here, but a full meeting video is usually far over the size limit, so export or extract the audio first. Google Meet recordings go to Drive as MP4 with the same caveat. A phone on the table recording a room meeting produces an .m4a that drops straight in.

What the preview does

Your browser reads the file and keeps the first 5 minutes, cutting longer recordings locally and re-encoding that part as 16 kHz mono WAV. The audio goes over an encrypted connection to the transcription engine behind the SozAI app (AssemblyAI). The language is detected automatically across 99 languages, and each participant who speaks gets a label with a timestamp — Speaker A, Speaker B — consistent through the transcript. When the text is on your screen, the audio and transcript are deleted at the provider.

Formats and limits

• M4A, MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG/OPUS, WEBM and the audio track of MP4, up to 25 MB as-is. Longer recordings are trimmed to 5 minutes in the browser first (up to 30 MB on a computer, 12 MB on a phone).
• Three previews per device per day, no account.
• Remote participants on a laptop microphone transcribe better than a conference-room speakerphone; both work.

The whole meeting, plus the action items

An hour of meeting is twelve previews. The SozAI app records or imports the full session, keeps the speaker labels, and writes a summary with decisions and action items you can paste into the follow-up email. Every meeting stays in a searchable library. The first 30 minutes are free.