Drop in the transcript Zoom saved and get readable text: one paragraph per speaker, no cue numbers or timing lines, talk time per person. Free, and the file never leaves your browser.
Your file is read in this browser tab and never uploaded. Nothing leaves your device unless you ask for meeting minutes.
Zoom makes a transcript in two ways, and both need a paid Zoom account (Pro, Business, Education or Enterprise for cloud recording; Pro, Business or Enterprise for meeting transcripts). The free Basic plan does not create either one.
Cloud recording and the Audio transcript setting must be on before the meeting. Zoom creates the transcript after the recording is processed, in 19 supported languages.
The Meeting transcript setting must be on (Settings > Meeting > In Meeting (Advanced)). It is off by default, and the host decides who may save it.
A Zoom .vtt starts with WEBVTT, then a numbered cue for every few seconds of speech: a cue number, a timing line such as 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.100, and the text with the speaker's name in front. One person talking for a minute becomes a dozen short fragments.
This tool removes the cue numbers and timing lines, joins the fragments from the same person into one paragraph and keeps the names. Turn on Keep timestamps to show when each person started talking. It also reads SRT and SBV caption files, and transcript text you paste.
Drop the .vtt file on this page. The cue numbers and timing lines are removed, lines from the same speaker are merged, and you can copy the result or download it as .txt, .md or .docx. It runs in your browser, so the file is not uploaded.
Not from Zoom itself. Audio transcripts of cloud recordings need a Pro, Business, Education or Enterprise account, and meeting transcripts need Pro, Business or Enterprise. Since May 2026 Zoom no longer lets participants save live captions after a meeting.
Zoom attributes speech to the name each person joined the meeting with, so people who shared one computer or meeting room appear under one name. This tool keeps whatever names are in the file; if there are none, the text is grouped into paragraphs.
No. The file is read by JavaScript in this tab. The only time text is sent to a server is when you click Make meeting minutes, which sends the cleaned transcript to Wave's minutes tool to write the minutes.
Yes. Under the clean transcript, Make meeting minutes writes structured minutes on this page. Summarize and Extract action items open Wave's other free tools with the transcript already filled in.
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