Transcribe a Google Meet recording
Download the recording from Google Drive, upload the file and get the text with a start and an end time on every segment, speaker labels on request and six export formats. Free is $0 with 3 files a day; Pro is $10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year).
| What goes in | What comes out | What the price covers |
|---|---|---|
| What goes in | The recording file of a Google Meet call, downloaded from Google Drive: a video file, or an audio file if the meeting was recorded as audio only | One file: up to 64 MB and 120 minutes (two hours) on every plan, including Team |
| What comes out | The text, and a start and an end time on every segment; speaker labels when you ask for them | On every plan, including the free one |
| Export | TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV and DOCX | DOCX is a Pro feature; the other five are on every plan |
| Price and limits | Free: $0, 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card and no trial clock | Pro: $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month |
| Where it runs | Our own transcription engine, a model profile tuned for Russian and for the Russian-English mix | A Russian or mixed file is processed on our own infrastructure outside the United States; a file that is entirely in English may go to a cloud speech provider in the United States when that fallback is enabled on the server |
How to do it in four steps
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Check that the recording exists and that everyone agreed
Meet records only when the account has the feature and somebody presses record; the other participants see a notice about it. Record only with the consent of the other side — the rules differ by country and we do not give legal advice.
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Download the file from Drive
The recording is stored in the Drive of the account that started the meeting, in the Recordings folder, and the host gets a link by email. The download gives you a video file, and our limit is 64 MB per file.
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Take the audio track out when the video does not fit
A one-hour meeting recorded as video is usually much bigger than 64 MB. On your own computer run
ffmpeg -i meet.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 64k meet.mp3. At 64 kbps a two-hour recording is about 57.6 MB, so it fits (calculated). The command runs on your machine, not on our servers. -
Upload, split by speaker, export
Drop the file into the widget on this page, switch on Split by speaker, read the first lines and fix a name in the editor, then export to DOCX, SRT or TXT.
Where the recording is, and what to do with it
| Where it is | What it is | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| The Drive of the account that started the meeting | The recording file, video by default | Download it and upload the file here |
| The live transcript inside Meet | Text that never leaves your Google account | Copy what you need; we cannot read it — we work with files |
| The meeting chat | Text, not audio | Not our job: we transcribe audio and video |
| A recording longer than 120 minutes | Several files | Split it: every part becomes its own transcript |
What it costs against the 1,500-minute allowance
| Your workload | Minutes a month | Where it lands |
|---|---|---|
| 8 meetings of 30 minutes | 240 | 16% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 20 meetings of 45 minutes | 900 | 60% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 30 meetings of 60 minutes | 1,800 | over the allowance by 300 minutes: the API answers with a clear error and the account stays open |
| One two-hour workshop | 120 | 8% of the allowance (calculated); the limit of one file |
Put a file on the page and read the first lines.
The widget below is the same one as on the home page: file → transcript with timecodes and speakers → export. The transcript is saved to your account.
Drop an audio or video file
or — mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, up to 64 MB and two hours
Transcription runs under your account: sign in or create a free account.
No account yet? The free plan needs no card. Create a free account or sign in.
Questions this page answers.
Does Transcrib Si join the meeting automatically?
No. There is no bot in the Google Meet invite and no calendar connection. You download the recording from Drive and upload the file — the widget on this page does the rest.
Is Meet's own live transcript enough?
For a quick note it often is. We are useful when you need the recording as a file you keep: the text with timecodes, the speakers separated and an export in DOCX, SRT, CSV or TXT. Meet's own transcript is not a file you can hand over.
The recording is bigger than 64 MB. What now?
Take the audio track out with ffmpeg — the command is on this page — or split the file. Both work: the service reads whatever file you upload, up to 64 MB and 120 minutes.
How much does it cost?
Free is $0 with 3 files a day and up to 30 minutes per file, and no card is needed. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year) or $20 a month, with fair use of 1,500 minutes of audio per calendar month.
Will the speakers be marked?
Yes, if you switch on Split by speaker: the voices are separated and labelled, and you rename the labels in the editor.
Can I do this from my own code?
Yes — the same file goes through POST /v1/transcripts with the language and the diarize field, and the answer comes back with the segments and the speaker labels.
Related pages.
The general checklist for calls: speakers, timecodes, exports.
Transcribe a phone call recording
When the recording comes from a phone instead of a meeting room.
Video files: why the size limit comes before the length limit.
Every plan, every limit, in one table.
Upload, edit, export and keep the history of every transcript.
The live answer base: 99 questions about the price, the limits, the languages, the exports, the privacy and the API, each with the page of this site it comes from.
Mark Vesyoly, Founder.
Every number on this page comes from the service contract, the pricing page or our own measurements. The author of the page and the publisher of the site are the same person. Questions and corrections: support@transcrib.si.