From meeting recording to searchable notes
You hit record on the standup so nobody had to take minutes, and now the decisions are buried in forty minutes of audio. Scrubbing back and forth to find who committed to what is slower than the meeting was. A written transcript fixes that: you can search for a project name, a deadline, or the word 'action' and land on the exact sentence, then paste the relevant lines straight into your notes doc or ticket.
FastScribe works from uploaded files only. If your meeting was recorded in Zoom, Meet, or Teams, download the recording to your computer first, then upload that file here. We cannot pull from a meeting link or a connected account, and we do not join or capture live calls.
One flowing transcript, no speaker labels
Be aware of what you will get back: FastScribe produces a single continuous transcript of everything said in the room. It does not label who said what, so a five-person standup comes out as one flowing text rather than a script with names in front of each line.
In practice this matters less than it sounds for meeting notes. People address each other by name constantly in meetings, which leaves attribution clues in the text itself, and because SRT and VTT exports carry timestamps, you can jump back to the exact moment in the recording whenever you need to confirm who made a commitment before writing it into the minutes.
Choosing an export format for meeting notes
Plain TXT is the right choice for most meetings: it pastes cleanly into a wiki page, a shared doc, or a follow-up email listing action items. Choose SRT or VTT if the recording is a video and you want timed captions, or simply because you want timestamps to navigate a long discussion.
If you circulate formal minutes, a Pro account adds DOCX export, along with batch uploads for clearing a backlog of recordings, a priority queue, and history kept forever so last quarter's decisions stay retrievable.
Frequently asked questions
My team meeting ran longer than ten minutes. Can I still transcribe it?
Yes. The free first file is capped at ten minutes, but a free account raises that to thirty minutes and one hundred megabytes. Pro at twelve dollars a month handles files up to two gigabytes and five hours, which covers even a long planning session.
Will the transcript show who said what in the meeting?
No. FastScribe returns one flowing transcript without speaker labels. Names spoken during the conversation appear in the text, and timestamps in SRT or VTT exports let you jump back to the audio to confirm attribution yourself.
Can you transcribe directly from our Zoom or Google Meet link?
No, FastScribe only accepts files you upload. Download the meeting recording from your conferencing tool to your computer first, then drop that file into the upload box.
What happens to the meeting recording after transcription?
The audio or video file is deleted from our servers the moment your transcript is ready. Only the text is kept, so you can come back later to search it or export it again.