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Summarize a Meeting Transcript

Paste a meeting transcript or drop the file — a Word or Google Docs .docx, a Teams transcript, a Zoom .vtt, a .txt or .md — and watch the meeting notes being written: a summary, key points, decisions, action items with owners and a follow-up email. Your first summary is free with no account, for about an hour of speech.

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First run free, no account: up to 60,000 characters (~1 hour) · MeetWave doesn't store the text you paste. It is sent to our AI processing provider only to write your notes, isn't used to train models, and isn't kept by MeetWave after the answer arrives.

Want this without exporting files? MeetWave records the call itself — no bot.

Where to get this file

Zoom cloud recording · checked 25 Sep 2026

Saved transcript
Pro, Business, Education or Enterprise, with cloud recording and audio transcript turned on
File
.vtt
Where
Web portal → Recordings & Transcripts → Cloud recordings, as a separate VTT file next to the recording
Who can get it
You, in your own recordings list; people you share the recording with, if you let viewers see the transcript

Zoom meeting transcripts: the full guide →Source: Zoom Support — Using audio transcription for cloud recordings, Zoom Support — Enabling cloud recording

Microsoft Teams · checked 25 Sep 2026

Saved transcript
Not documented by Microsoft on its transcript help pages
File
.docx or .vtt
Where
The organizer's OneDrive; for channel meetings, the team's SharePoint site
Who can get it
Organizers and co-organizers can download; others only with their permission

Microsoft Teams transcript: the full guide →Source: Microsoft Support — Start, stop, and download live transcripts in Microsoft Teams meetings, Microsoft Learn — Teams meeting recording and transcript storage and permissions in OneDrive and SharePoint, Microsoft Learn — Manage Teams recording expiration policy

Google Meet · checked 25 Sep 2026

Saved transcript
Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Education Plus or Workspace Individual
File
Not documented by Google (it says "a separate transcript file")
Where
The organizer's Google Drive, "Google Meet" folder; from July 2026 the old "Meet Recordings" folder is renamed "Legacy Meet Recordings"
Who can get it
Emailed to the host, co-hosts and whoever turned it on; attached to the Calendar event, which invitees in the host's organization can open

Google Meet transcript: the full guide →Source: Google Meet Help — Use transcripts with Google Meet

What You Get: an Example

Input — a pasted Teams transcript, 34 minutes (shortened here)

Priya Shah   0:12
Let's lock the launch date. Marketing needs two weeks' notice.
Tom Becker   0:31
The 14th works if QA signs off on Friday.
Priya Shah   0:44
Then the 14th. Lena, can you move the webinar?
Lena Fischer   0:52
Yes, I'll move it to the 15th and email the registrants.
…

Output — the notes of this meeting (shortened here)

Summary. The team set the launch for the 14th, provided QA signs off on Friday. The webinar moves to the 15th, and the pricing page stays as it is until after launch.

Key points

  • Marketing needs two weeks' notice before any launch date
  • QA sign-off on Friday is the only open risk

Decisions

  • Launch on the 14th
  • Pricing page unchanged until after launch

Action items

  • Lena Fischer — move the webinar to the 15th and email the registrants
  • Tom Becker — confirm QA sign-off — Friday

Follow-up email — Subject: Launch on the 14th — owners and dates, with the decisions and who owes what.

How It Works

Step 1

Get the transcript out of your meeting app

Zoom: Recordings & Transcripts in the web portal. Teams: the meeting chat, Recap, Transcript, Download. Google Meet: the transcript document in the organizer's Drive — File, Download, Microsoft Word (.docx).

Step 2

Drop the file or paste the text

Word and Google Docs .docx, .txt, .md, .vtt and .srt files are read in your browser, and subtitle timestamps are removed before anything is sent. Up to 60,000 characters — about an hour of speech — without an account.

Step 3

Watch the notes being written

The summary appears within seconds and the rest follows on screen: key points, decisions, action items with owners and a follow-up email. Copy any part, or all of it.

Step 4

Save the meeting

Save the notes to a free account — new accounts get 14 days of Pro. MeetWave can then record your next call on your own computer and write these notes by itself.

Why Use It

  • Reads Word and Google Docs files and Zoom, Teams and Google Meet transcripts as they come — no clean-up first
  • Summary, key points, decisions, action items and a follow-up email in one document
  • Written on screen as it is generated, in seconds
  • Speaker names kept, so owners carry into the action items
  • First summary free with no account; the text is not kept after the notes are written

Frequently Asked Questions

Your first summary is free with no account, for a transcript of up to 60,000 characters (about an hour), and you get all of it: the summary, decisions, action items and follow-up email. For the next one, sign in — new accounts get 14 days of Pro, which includes this tool and transcripts of up to 200,000 characters. On the free plan an account gets one free run of its own; after that the tool is part of Pro, or one credit a run.

A file is read in your browser, and only its text is sent — never the file or its name. MeetWave doesn't store the text you paste. It is sent to our AI processing provider only to write your notes, isn't used to train models, and isn't kept by MeetWave after the answer arrives.

Any Word document (.docx) — a Teams transcript, a Google Meet transcript downloaded from Google Docs as .docx, notes typed during the call — plus a Zoom cloud recording transcript (.vtt), subtitles (.srt, .vtt), plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md), or any text you paste. Subtitle timestamps and cue numbers are removed before the text is read.

Up to 60,000 characters without an account — roughly an hour of conversation. A longer transcript is not refused: the notes are written from the first part, and the page says so. Signed in, the limit is 200,000 characters.

Yes — paste a transcript in Spanish, German, French or another widely spoken language and the notes are written from it. The summary usually comes back in the language of the transcript.

A template gives you the headings and you write the content; this page writes the content from what was actually said. If you prefer to write it yourself, the meeting summary template has the same structure — purpose, key points, decisions, action items.

Yes. MeetWave records the call on your own computer — no bot joins the meeting — and writes the summary and action items when it ends, so there is no file to download and drop here.

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