Google Meet Transcript Cleaner: Free, In Your Browser

How to get a Google Meet transcript

Meet transcripts are available on Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Education Plus and Workspace Individual. They are not available on personal Gmail accounts. Transcription works on a computer or Android device, not iPhone, in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

Turn on Transcripts in the meeting

If the host has Host management turned on, only the host and co-hosts can start it; otherwise anyone from the host's organization can.

At the bottom right, click Meeting tools, then Transcribe, then Start transcription.
Click Start in the pop-up. Stop it the same way, or when the meeting ends.

Find and download the transcript (Google Doc)

The host, co-hosts and the person who started transcription get an email with a link. It is also attached to the Calendar event and saved in the organizer's Google Drive, in the Google Meet folder.

Open the transcript from the email, the Calendar event or Drive.
In Google Docs, choose File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx) or Plain text (.txt). Or select all the text and copy it.
Drop the file here, or paste the text in the Paste text tab.

How it works

Add the transcript file. Drop in the .vtt, .txt or .docx your meeting app saved, or paste the text.
Read the clean version. Cue numbers, timing lines and caption tags are removed, and lines from the same speaker are joined into one paragraph.
Export or keep going. Copy it, download .txt, .md or .docx, or turn it into minutes, a summary or action items.

What a Google Meet transcript looks like

The Google Doc starts with the meeting name and attendees, then has lines in the form Name: what they said, with a timestamp line such as 00:05:00 every few minutes. Long meetings run to dozens of pages with the same names repeated on every line.

This tool drops the title block and the closing line, joins consecutive lines from the same person into one paragraph and counts each person's share of the conversation. It also reads .vtt, .srt and .sbv caption files.

Common questions

Where do Google Meet transcripts go?

To the meeting organizer's Google Drive, in the Google Meet folder, with a sub-folder for each meeting. The host, co-hosts and the person who started transcription also get an email link, and the transcript is attached to the Calendar event.

Why is there no transcript option in my Google Meet?

Transcripts need an eligible Google Workspace edition (such as Business Standard or Workspace Individual) and are not available on personal Gmail accounts or on iPhone. Your admin can also turn the feature off, and the host may limit it to hosts and co-hosts.

Can I download a Google Meet transcript as a Word file?

Yes. Open the transcript in Google Docs and choose File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). You can drop that file here, or download it as Plain text (.txt), or copy and paste the text.

Is my transcript uploaded anywhere?

No. Pasted text and dropped files are processed in this browser tab. Text is only sent to a server if you click Make meeting minutes, which sends the cleaned transcript to Wave's minutes tool.

Can I turn a Google Meet transcript into minutes or a summary?

Yes. Make meeting minutes writes structured minutes on this page. Summarize and Extract action items open Wave's other free tools with the transcript filled in.

Record the next meeting with Wave AI

Wave records meetings and calls on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and the web, then writes a transcript with speaker names and a summary. The free plan includes 30 minutes of recording a month.

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