Meeting Transcription: Recordings In, Readable Notes Out
Upload the recording file from Zoom, Meet or Teams, get a timestamped transcript in minutes, fix names in place and download it as TXT for notes or SRT for video.
Meeting Transcription: Recordings In, Readable Notes Out Features
EchoWave's transcription tools are used by project managers, remote teams and consultants worldwide
After the meeting
Nobody rewatches the recording. Everyone reads the transcript.
Meeting transcription in EchoWave starts with a file, not an integration: download or locate the recording from Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams and upload it, no bot in the call, no calendar access. The AI transcribes the whole meeting with word-level timing and lays it out as timestamped rows, each with its own play button, so correcting a client name or an acronym takes seconds. Export TXT for minutes and notes, or SRT and VTT if the recording gets shared as a video. Audio-only files run through the same flow as audio to text, general footage through video to text, and one-on-one conversations through interview transcription.
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TXT, SRT, VTT
Minutes-ready plain text, or subtitle files if the video gets shared
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Word-level
Each word is timed, so any decision traces back to its exact moment
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50+ languages
Auto-detects the spoken language, with a manual override when needed
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Zoom, Meet, Teams
Upload the recording file from any platform that lets you save one
What you get
Everything between the recording and the minutes
Transcription is the start; the surrounding tools turn it into a document.
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Upload Any Meeting File
Zoom local or downloaded cloud recordings, Meet files from Drive, Teams downloads, plus in-person meetings captured with the voice recorder. If the platform gives you a video or audio file, EchoWave can transcribe it.
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Word-Timed Transcription
The AI transcribes the full meeting and stamps every word with its position in the recording, across 50+ languages with automatic detection. Timestamps are what make a transcript quotable, not just readable.
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Fix Names in Seconds
Each cue is an editable row with its own play button: hear the moment, correct the client name, the acronym or the product term, and move on. Timing nudges by 0.1s when a cue sits slightly off.
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TXT for Notes, SRT for Video
Plain text drops straight into your minutes doc or wiki. If the recording gets published, generate subtitle files from the same corrected transcript instead, like a built-in SRT generator.
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Trim the Dead Air
Sharing the recording itself? The transcript also powers the silence remover and filler-word cleanup, so the version you circulate skips the five minutes of people joining and screen-share fumbling.
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Minutes for Global Teams
Translate the corrected transcript into 80+ languages with editable output, so the same meeting produces readable notes for every office, not just the one that speaks the meeting's language.
How it works
How to transcribe a meeting recording
Four steps from recording file to readable notes.
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Upload the Recording File
Find the meeting file, the local Zoom recording, the Meet file in Drive or the Teams download, and drag it into the EchoWave editor. Video and audio-only files both work.
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Auto-Transcribe the Meeting
Click auto-transcribe. The AI processes the full recording and returns timestamped rows with word-level timing, in speaking order.
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Correct Terms and Names
Play any row with one click and fix product names, acronyms and jargon in place. Corrections flow into every export format.
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Download TXT or SRT
Export plain text for minutes and notes. If the recording will be shared as a video, download SRT or VTT subtitles from the same transcript.
Who uses it
Wherever recordings pile up
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Project Managers
Planning calls and retros turn into action-item lists without anyone rewatching an hour of screen share.
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Remote and Async Teams
The teammate who slept through the 6 a.m. sync reads five minutes of transcript instead of sixty of video.
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Sales and Customer Success
Discovery calls become exact customer quotes with timestamps, ready for the CRM note or the handoff doc.
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Consultants and Agencies
Client calls become a written record of what was promised, what changed and exactly when it was said.
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Team Leads and Founders
One-on-ones and board calls get a searchable record that lives in your own library, not on someone's laptop.
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Anyone With a Backlog
That folder of unwatched meeting recordings becomes a stack of documents you can search, skim and quote.
Stop rewatching meetings
Upload the recording, correct the transcript, export TXT or SRT. Free to start.
What people are saying about EchoWave
About the EchoWave team
EchoWave is a browser-based video and audio editor built by Lemon Vault LLC since 2018. The people who build the editor write these guides and test every step in the production app before publishing.
Meeting transcription FAQ
How do I transcribe a meeting recording?
Upload the file to EchoWave and click auto-transcribe. Zoom keeps local recordings on your computer and lets you download cloud recordings from its web portal; Google Meet saves recordings to the organizer's Drive; Teams stores them in OneDrive or SharePoint. Download the video or audio file, drop it into the editor, and the transcript appears as timestamped rows moments later. Fix names and terms in place, then download TXT for notes, or SRT and VTT if the recording will be shared as a video.
Does it join my Zoom, Meet or Teams calls automatically?
No. EchoWave is not a meeting bot: it never dials into calls, does not connect to your calendar and does not pull recordings out of your Zoom, Meet or Teams account. You record the meeting as you normally would, then upload the file afterward. That trade-off cuts both ways: there is one manual step, but nothing shows up in the participant list, nobody has to approve a bot, and any platform that produces a recording file works, including a phone on the table in an in-person meeting.
Does the transcript label who is speaking?
No, there are no automatic speaker labels. The transcript is a single timestamped stream of text in speaking order, not lines split by voice. In practice, most meeting notes only need attribution in a few places: play the cue, confirm who said it and type the name at the start of the line. The per-cue play buttons make that a one-click check, and the timestamps mean you can always jump back to the recording to settle a disputed quote.
How accurate is it when people talk over each other?
Clear, one-speaker-at-a-time stretches transcribe with high accuracy. Crosstalk is the hard case for every transcription engine: when two people talk at once, words can merge or drop, and heavy echo or a distant conference-room mic makes it worse. Platform recordings, where each participant's mic feeds the mix directly, fare noticeably better than a laptop recording a room. When a messy moment matters, click play on that cue, listen and correct it; the timestamped rows keep fixes targeted instead of forcing a full re-listen.
Can it transcribe a two-hour Zoom recording?
Yes. Long recordings are the normal case for meetings, and the transcript editor is built to stay responsive as the row count grows. Processing time scales with the length of the file, so a two-hour all-hands takes longer than a fifteen-minute standup, but the flow is identical: upload, transcribe, correct, download. For very long sessions, correcting only the sections you plan to quote is a sensible shortcut; the TXT export always includes the full text either way.
Can it write the meeting minutes or a summary for me?
EchoWave produces the transcript, not an auto-generated summary, and that distinction matters for accuracy: the transcript is the verbatim, timestamped record of what was actually said. The practical workflow is to download the TXT, skim it for decisions, owners and dates, and paste exact quotes into your minutes where wording matters. That is usually faster than rewatching, and unlike a generated summary, every line can be traced back to the moment it was spoken.
Are my meeting recordings private?
Uploads go into your own EchoWave library and are processed there to produce the transcript. Nothing you upload is published or listed anywhere; the recording and its transcript are only reachable from your account, and sharing happens only if you download an export and send it yourself. For sensitive calls that keeps the workflow easy to reason about: the file goes in, the text comes out, and both stay under your control.
Is meeting transcription free?
Transcribing and downloading the transcript are free to start: upload the recording, run the transcription, edit the rows and export TXT, SRT or VTT. The free plan's limits apply to video exports, which carry a small watermark and cap at 720p; paid plans remove the watermark and export up to 4K. For the core meeting workflow, recording file in, text file out, you can get a long way without paying.
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