The Recall.ai Blog

Best Practices

How to pick a meeting note taker

This blog goes through all of the questions you should ask yourself when evaluating meeting note takers. The purpose is not to sell you any solution, but to help you figure out what you need to ask your providers to get the best solution for your use case.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

December 2, 2025

Deep Dive

Zoom SDK Credentials

This blog goes over what Zoom SDK credentials are, when you need them, how to obtain Zoom SDK credentials with example code. The blog also features a brief overview of the other types of credentials.

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

December 1, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a meeting notetaker

Build a cross-platform meeting notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and more. The notetaker captures transcripts, passes them to a LLM for summarization and action item creation and sends the action items to your app.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 18, 2025

Best Practices

What is a Zoom Access Key (ZAK) token?

Learn how Zoom Access Key (ZAK) tokens let your Meeting SDK bot join authenticated meetings, start meetings as the host, and use a custom profile picture. Includes step-by-step instructions to generate and use ZAK tokens.

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a Chrome recording extension

A complete step-by-step tutorial on building a Chrome extension that records Google Meet (and other meetings joined through the web client) using chrome.tabCapture. This tutorial explains each stage and provides all source code.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Best Practices

Zoom join tokens for local recording

Learn about what a Zoom join token for local recording is, when and why to use it, and what to expect to take it to production. Includes code samples and examples.

Gerry Saporito

Updated:

December 2, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a meeting bot

Build a cross-platform meeting bot that joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and more, streams real-time transcripts and media, retrieves recordings, processes data into insights, and can output video or audio back into meetings.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a Zoom notetaker

Learn how to build a Zoom notetaker that joins calls, records and transcribes meetings, and generates AI-powered summaries using Recall.ai.

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Announcements

Recall.ai Announces Participant Emails

Recall.ai now provides participant emails for meetings for precise speaker identification, with a video demo and real examples of how it works.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Tutorials

How to get transcripts from Zoom

A step-by-step guide to getting transcripts from Zoom by sending a bot into meetings, capturing both real-time and post-call transcripts through a minimal backend.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

December 2, 2025

Announcements

Recall.ai Series B: The API for Meeting Recording

Recall.ai announces Series B, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, to expand the infrastructure layer for meeting recording. The funding follows the launch of the Desktop Recording SDK, enabling developers to capture conversation data directly from any device without bots.

David Gu

Updated:

November 6, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a Microsoft Teams Bot

Learn how to build a Microsoft Teams bot that joins meetings, enables captions, and streams transcripts in real time. Includes code samples, architecture, and lessons learned.

Gerry Saporito

Updated:

December 1, 2025

Tutorials

How to Get Recordings and Transcripts from Slack Huddles

Accessing recordings and transcripts from Slack Huddles is challenging because Slack Huddles does not have an API. This post explores workarounds for getting data from Slack Huddles, and how to use Recall.ai’s Slack Huddles API to get this data.

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

November 18, 2025

Tutorials

How to build a Zoom bot from scratch

A technical guide on how to build a zoom bot with an open-source repo using browser automation. Covers joining calls, scraping captions, architecture, debugging, and scaling.

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

December 2, 2025

Tutorials

How to get recordings from Zoom using a Zoom recording bot API

A step-by-step guide to getting recordings from Zoom by sending a bot into meetings, capturing both real-time audio/video capture and post-call recordings through a minimal backend.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

December 2, 2025

Best Practices

How to Get a Recording from the Google Meet API

Everything developers need to know about accessing Google Meet recordings using the official Google Meet REST API. This in-depth guide covers step-by-step instructions to authenticate, locate, and download recordings stored in Google Drive—including required scopes, permissions, common pitfalls, and real-world limitations.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 13, 2025

Best Practices

What is the Google Meet Media API?

A technical primer on what the Google Meet Media API is. Including use cases, technical requirements, constraints, integration overview, and a comparison guide between Google Meet REST API, Google Meet Media API, and Recall.ai.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

July 18, 2025

Deep Dive

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.

Elliot Levin

Updated:

July 10, 2025

Best Practices

How to get Google Meet transcripts programmatically

A complete breakdown of Google Meet transcription methods that explores bots, extensions, APIs, and desktop apps with demos, example code, real-world testing, and detailed trade-offs that include accuracy, latency, cost, and complexity.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 18, 2025

Tutorials

How to Build a Google Meet Bot from Scratch

Step-by-step guide to builing a Google Meet notetaker bot. This tutorial walks you through how to build a Playwright bot with live caption scraping, basic speaker attribution, buffered segments, and an OpenAI summary—code included.

Maggie Veltri

Updated:

November 14, 2025

Announcements

Capturing Slack Huddle Data with Recall.ai

Capture and integrate Slack Huddle transcripts, recordings, and speaker data with our new API. Automate workflows and build AI-powered tools with ease.

YK Kim

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Deep Dive

PDEATHSIG is almost never what you want

How an elusive Linux kernel API flag nearly cost us a 6x latency improvement.

James Matsuzaki

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Announcements

Capturing Meeting Recordings and Transcripts Without Bots

Built to simplify capturing meeting data, this SDK allows you to get the recording, transcript and metadata directly within your desktop app — without the need for bots.

YK Kim

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Announcements

Cronofy and Recall.ai Integration

Through our native integration, now you can use Cronofy’s streamlined scheduling for your Recall.ai powered meeting bots without writing any extra code.

YK Kim

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Announcements

Launching Output Media

Recall.ai bots can now generate and stream low-latency audio and video directly into a video conference. Easily build live, interactive AI agents.

António Monteiro

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Deep Dive

How WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

A deep dive where we unexpectedly discover how WebSockets cost us $1M/year in AWS spend and the quest for an efficient high-bandwidth, low-latency IPC.

Elliot Levin

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Deep Dive

Debugging Audio Artifacts Caused by... a Serial Port?

At Recall.ai, we built a 10,000-node cluster, processing over 1TB/sec of raw video in real-time. This deep dive explores a strange audio issue.

Chris Constantine

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Tutorials

Code Walkthrough: Generating Meeting Action Items With Recall.ai

Tutorial walking through Recall.ai's sample app to generate meeting action items from Zoom calls using OpenAI's API to analyze the raw meeting transcript

Aydin Schwartz

Updated:

July 5, 2025

Deep Dive

Zoom Meeting Bots: What They Are and Solutions

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

October 23, 2025

Tutorials

Speaker Labels and Speaker Diarization Explained: How to Obtain and Use Them for Accurate Transcription

Learn about speaker labels, speaker diarization, and how to get them for your transcripts

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Tutorials

Zoom Cloud Recording API: Transcript Tutorial, Common Pitfalls, and Workarounds

Vivek Sahu

Updated:

October 24, 2025

Announcements

Announcing our $10M Series A

Recall.ai has raised a $10M Series A!

David Gu

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Announcements

Announcing the Recall.ai and Speechmatics Integration

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

September 26, 2025

Announcements

Recall.ai is Officially HIPAA Compliant

Recall.ai is HIPAA compliant, which means that companies can now use Recall to securely capture conversations that contain protected health information (PHI).

David Gu

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Deep Dive

Encountering Hyrum's Law in the Wild

David Gu

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Best Practices

7 APIs to get Zoom transcripts: A comprehensive guide

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

November 13, 2025

Tutorials

How to integrate with Otter.ai

This blog post goes over how to integrate with Otter.ai, and answers questions like if Otter.ai has an API.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

January 30, 2024

Tutorials

How to receive multilingual meeting transcription with the Recall.ai and Gladia integration

Announcing our partnership with Gladia, plus a short tutorial on how to use it.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

June 16, 2024

Announcements

Recall.ai partners with Symbl.ai to add conversation intelligence to voice and video apps

Recall.ai and Symbl.ai partner to help developers quickly add intelligence to voice and video apps.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

January 7, 2024

Best Practices

Zoom RTMP live streaming API pros and cons

In this post we go over the pros, cons, and alternatives to using Zoom RTMP live streaming APIs for accessing real time video and audio from meetings.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

January 7, 2024

Tutorials

How to build a Zoom bot: A guide for developers

A guide for developers on how to build a Zoom bot using Recall.ai's third-party meeting bot API, which joins a Zoom meeting and produces a video recording.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

June 16, 2024

Best Practices

5 Ways to Request Recording Consent with Meeting Bots

If your product has a meeting bot, here are 5 ways you can have your bot collect recording consent.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

November 26, 2024

Deep Dive

Debugging a 1 in 36,000,000 segfault in our audio encoder

Tracking down an elusive segfault deep inside our audio encoding library.

Elliot Levin

Updated:

November 26, 2024

Best Practices

Zoom's real-time transcription API

What is the best way to receive a streaming transcript from Zoom? Here are 4 ways.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

June 16, 2024

Tutorials

How to live stream the video from Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet video conferences

Tutorial on how to build an app that live streams the video from meeting platforms like Zoom.

David Gu

Updated:

November 26, 2023

Announcements

Announcing our $2.7M Seed Round

Recall.ai has raised $2.7 million to build Plaid for voice and video.

David Gu

Updated:

November 25, 2024

Best Practices

Pros and Cons of Using a Freelancer to build a Meeting Recorder Bot

Should you hire a freelancer to build your meeting recording bot? Here are some pros and cons.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

November 26, 2024

Best Practices

How Long Should Bots Wait in Waiting Rooms?

How long should bots wait in waiting rooms? Less time than you may think!

David Gu

Updated:

November 26, 2024

Announcements

Recall.ai and Rev AI Partner to Empower Developers to Work with Meeting Data

We're excited to announce the new integration between Recall.ai, the unified API for meeting bots, and Rev AI. Read on to find out how it works!

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

November 26, 2024

Tutorials

How to Integrate with Google Meet

Learn how to integrate with Google Meet: create meetings via API, get webhooks, retrieve attendee emails, access recordings, and stream real-time audio/video.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

August 20, 2025

Best Practices

Dockerfile Centric Development

How we use Docker to extensively streamline our development process.

David Gu

Updated:

July 2, 2025

Announcements

Announcing our Partnership with Deepgram

Recall partners with Deepgram to make it easier than ever for developers to apply AI speech recognition and understanding to conversations happening over platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and more.

Amanda Zhu

Updated:

June 16, 2024

Best Practices

Top 6 Reasons to Build a Meeting Bot into your Product

Here are 6 reasons why companies choose to build a meeting bot into their products instead of other integration methods.

David Gu

Updated:

July 5, 2025

Tutorials

How to Convert Zoom Raw Data into PNG and MP4

A short tutorial on how to convert the raw video data you receive from Zoom into PNG frames or an MP4 file.

David Gu

Updated:

July 5, 2025

Announcements

Recall Announces Official Partnership with Assembly AI

Recall.ai partners with Assembly AI to deliver high quality transcription to Recall customers.

David Gu

Updated:

June 26, 2025

Best Practices

5 Ways to Capture Audio and Video from Zoom

The 5 ways to capture audio and video from Zoom calls are RTMP Streaming, Zoom Cloud Download, Local Recording Upload, Recording Bot, and Recall.ai

David Gu

Updated:

July 2, 2025