Zoom saves local recordings to Documents/Zoom as MP4 (cloud recordings download from the web portal under Recordings). Teams stores meeting videos in OneDrive or SharePoint — open the recording and use Download. Google Meet saves to the organizer's Drive in a "Meet Recordings" folder. All three produce standard MP4s that upload here directly; a typical 45-minute meeting fits the free account tier, and an all-hands marathon fits Pro's 10-hour cap.
If your meeting wasn't recorded by the app at all — a conference room, a phone on the table — that works too: any audio or video format is fine, though a microphone near the middle of the table beats one at the end.
From recording to minutes and action items
A meeting transcript is only useful if you can tell who committed to what. On Pro, speaker labels (diarization) tag every segment SPEAKER 1, SPEAKER 2, and so on — click a label in the editor, rename it once to "Priya" or "Legal", and every segment from that voice updates. Search the transcript for "action", "deadline", or a colleague's name, fix anything misheard, then export: TXT for pasting into notes, DOCX for circulating formal minutes.
Two honesty notes: heavy crosstalk — three people talking over each other — is the hardest thing in speech recognition, and moments like that will need manual cleanup. And confidentiality is handled the boring, verifiable way: anonymous uploads auto-delete within 24 hours, account uploads stay only until you delete them, and nothing is used to train models or shared with third parties.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I find my Zoom / Teams / Meet recording file?
Zoom: local recordings land in Documents/Zoom (look for the .mp4, not the .m4a next to it — either works); cloud recordings download from zoom.us → Recordings. Teams: the meeting chat links the recording, stored in the organizer's OneDrive/SharePoint — open and Download. Meet: check the organizer's Google Drive → Meet Recordings folder. Upload the downloaded file here as-is.
Can it tell me who said what?
Yes, with speaker labels — a Pro / credit-pack feature. The engine separates voices and tags each segment; you rename the tags once in the editor and the whole transcript updates. Without Pro you still get the full text of everyone's words, just not attributed per person.
How accurate is it on a real multi-person meeting?
Clear turn-taking on a decent mic transcribes near-perfectly. Accuracy drops in the moments meetings are worst at: several people talking at once, someone far from the microphone, laptop-speaker echo. Those stretches are why the transcript opens in an editor — find them with search and fix them in seconds against the audio player.
Are my meetings confidential?
Anonymous uploads and their transcripts auto-delete within 24 hours; account uploads persist only until you delete them. Files are processed on our own GPU servers, never used for model training, and never shared. For board-level material, export what you need and delete the transcript immediately — deletion removes the audio file and every segment.
How long a meeting can I transcribe free?
30 minutes per file with no account (3 files a day), 1 hour with a free account (5 a day). A weekly hour-long standup fits the free account exactly; anything longer — half-day workshops, recorded trainings — needs Pro ($10/mo) or a credit pack ($5 covers 10 hours, one-time).
Can I get minutes as a Word document?
Yes — DOCX export is included with any account (and PDF alongside it). With speaker labels on, the DOCX comes out as "[Name] said…" paragraphs, which is 90% of the way to circulated minutes: trim the small talk, bold the decisions, send.