Zoom's own transcript depends on your plan and on cloud recording being enabled. If you have the local recording file, upload it here and get a timestamped transcript with SRT export — no host settings, no upgrade.
Manual translation, hired voice actors, days of waiting. Creators and teams lose time and money on every single video.
Skip the old workflowThe meeting was recorded locally, or the cloud transcript was never enabled, and now somebody wants the minutes as text.
Zoom gave me a transcript but not an SRT, and I need subtitles for the edited highlights video.
The meeting was in two languages and the transcript needs to exist in the other one too.
Upload, pick languages, and let the AI handle the rest. No software to install.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
A few clicks, that is all.
Zoom transcription is frustrating for a boring reason: it depends on things you may not control. Cloud recording plus the audio transcript setting is needed for Zoom to generate a VTT for you, that is plan-dependent, and if the recording was kept locally — or you are working from a file somebody sent you — there is nothing to turn on, just an MP4 or M4A sitting on a disk. This page handles that case. Upload the recording and you get a timestamped transcript you can edit, search and export: SRT to drop back into a video editor or YouTube, TXT to paste into minutes, and translation into 67+ languages if the meeting was not in English. It also means the transcript exists outside Zoom — it stays yours if the meeting is deleted from the cloud, and it covers the sessions you cannot record to the cloud at all. One honest note on accuracy: meeting audio is the hard case, because people talk over each other, microphones differ room to room, and phone dial-ins are compressed. Clear single-speaker stretches come out around 98%; crosstalk and speaker overlap are where you will be fixing lines by hand, and the per-line timestamps make that quick.
No host privileges, no plan upgrade, no cloud recording: if you have the MP4 or M4A, that is enough. This is also the only route when the meeting has already ended and the recording was kept locally.
One upload yields a searchable transcript, an SRT for the highlights video, and a translated version if the meeting mixed languages — instead of three separate tools and a lot of copy-pasting.
Every line is anchored to a point in the recording, so 'the part where we agreed the deadline' becomes a click instead of a 60-minute re-listen. Transcripts also live outside Zoom, so they survive a deleted cloud recording.
Only in some configurations. Zoom can produce a transcript when cloud recording is enabled with the audio transcript option, and it offers live transcription in-meeting; both depend on your account type and on the host's settings, and local recordings do not come with a transcript. If any of that is missing, the recording file is still on your disk and can be transcribed here.
Locate the recording — a local Zoom recording is saved in a folder named after the meeting and usually contains an MP4 and an M4A. Upload either one here, choose the meeting language, and you get a timestamped transcript in minutes, exportable as TXT for minutes or SRT for video. 1 credit per minute of audio, 20 credits free at sign-up.
Zoom's cloud transcript downloads as VTT rather than SRT, and only when cloud recording with audio transcript is available to you. VTT and SRT are close enough that the workbench route is usually simpler: transcribe the MP4 or M4A and export a clean SRT, which every editor and YouTube accept directly.
Yes — Meet and Teams recordings also arrive as MP4 or M4A files, and webinar recordings behave the same way. The transcription step does not care which platform produced the file, so this works for any meeting recording as long as you can get the audio out as a file.
Clean single-speaker audio reaches up to 98%. Meetings are harder: overlapping speech, distant microphones, room echo and compressed phone audio all reduce accuracy, and names and product terms usually need a pass by hand. Line-level timestamps mean you only re-listen to the doubtful lines, and editing them takes seconds.
Audio is used for the task you started and cleared when it finishes; it is not shared with third parties and not used for training. That matters for meetings specifically: you choose what to upload instead of relying on a cloud transcript staying available inside the meeting platform.
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