Transcribe a Zoom recording
Download the local or cloud recording of your Zoom call, 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 | A Zoom recording file: a local recording from the host's computer, or a cloud recording downloaded from the organizer's account | 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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Make sure the meeting was recorded, and that everyone knew
Zoom records when the host presses record or when the cloud recording is switched on for the account; participants are told that the recording is running. 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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Find the file: on the host's computer, or in the organizer's account
A local recording stays on the computer of the host. A cloud recording is listed in the Recordings tab of the account that scheduled the meeting, and the link also arrives by email. Both give you a file you can download.
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Make the file fit 64 MB
Zoom writes a video recording as a video file, and an audio-only recording as an audio file. If the file is over 64 MB, take the audio track out:
ffmpeg -i zoom.mp4 -vn -acodec libmp3lame -b:a 64k zoom.mp3. At 64 kbps two hours are about 57.6 MB, so it fits (calculated). -
Upload, split by speaker, export
Drop the file into the widget on this page, switch on Split by speaker, read the first lines, and 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 Recordings tab of the organizer's account | The cloud recording, shared by link and by email | Download it and upload the file here |
| The computer of the host | A local recording that never left the room | Download it and upload the file here |
| The live transcript in the Zoom app | Text that only exists in the app | Copy what you need; we cannot read it |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 calls of 30 minutes | 300 | 20% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 20 calls of 45 minutes | 900 | 60% of the allowance (calculated) |
| 25 calls of 60 minutes | 1,500 | exactly the allowance (calculated); exactly the allowance |
| One two-hour customer call | 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?
No. There is no bot in the Zoom invite, we do not record the call and we do not connect to your calendar. You download the recording and upload the file.
Local recording or cloud recording — does it matter?
No. Both are files, and both are read the same way. A local recording you have to copy off the host's computer; a cloud recording you download from the organizer's account.
My Zoom recording is bigger than 64 MB
Take the audio track out with ffmpeg (the command is on this page) or split the recording into parts. Both work: the service reads the file you upload.
Can I get the transcript as subtitles?
Yes: SRT and VTT are two of the six export formats, and the start and end time of every segment goes into them.
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.
Can I send the recording to the service from my own code?
Yes — POST /v1/transcripts takes the file as multipart, the language as ru, en or auto and the diarize flag, and returns the transcript id you then read back.
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.