Meeting Transcription API

Get meeting transcripts with an API that works across all meeting platforms.

Two form factors to capture meeting transcripts the way you want

The fastest way to pull video recordings, audio recordings, transcripts, and metadata, in real time or post-call. Recall.ai provides all the functionality you need from a meeting transcription API through one unified endpoint.

One meeting transcription API for every platform

Our API automatically supports Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and more. Get transcripts from each platform without rewriting code.

"Recall.ai allows us to operate reliable, enterprise-scale meeting transcriptions without worrying about infrastructure or security. This level of performance and reliability has allowed us to move quickly on our AI-powered meeting product (Ava) deployed at a significant internal scale."

Kevin Lei

Engineering Manager, AI Productivity and Infra at Instacart

The easiest way to get meeting transcripts via API

Get meeting transcripts no matter the edge case

Use our transcription API endpoint to get transcripts for any call hosted on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and more without host permissions or user attendance. Works on all meeting platform tiers, including free accounts, unlike many native APIs.
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Capture every detail from every meeting

Retrieve audio, video, transcripts, and metadata (participant emails, participant lists, meeting titles, etc) in real-time or asynchronously.

Examples of meeting data

Scale up or down instantly

Get transcripts from as many meetings as you need using Recall.ai's Meeting Bot API or Desktop Recording SDK. We’ll handle reliability, scaling, and compliance.

Deploy in minutes, not hours

Building meeting transcription capabilities from scratch can take months of engineering work. With Recall.ai, you’ll be live in hours.

Keep your meeting data secure

Just call our API and we’ll handle scaling, reliability, and compliance, so your team can focus on creating the features your users love.

Reliable and stable

We power call recording features for thousands of companies, ranging from seed-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

Onboarding support

We work closely with your team, and have shared Slack channels to ensure so you are set up for success.

Scalable infrastructure

We run thousands of concurrent bots and process billions  of minutes in recording per year. All while maintatining a 99.9% uptime SLA.
"I was in a demo and someone asked me if I had someone typing the conversation. That's the magic of Recall.ai."

Adil Aijaz

Founder

Frequently asked questions

A meeting transcription API is any API that programmatically provides meeting transcripts. At Recall.ai that functionality is available both in the Desktop Recording SDK and Meeting Bot API, both of which provide additional data.

Yes. Recall.ai's Desktop Recording SDK and Meeting Bot API work across all major platforms.

Yes. The Recall.ai Meeting Bot API and Desktop Recording SDK both deliver real-time transcripts via webhook and offer transcripts after the call via API endpoint.

Yes, Recall.ai is SOC 2, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliant.

Yes. You can provide your own transcription API keys for one of our supported transcription providers or use Recall.ai Transcription to transcribe your meeting.

We can either store your data or you can set custom retention for all of your meeting data, including transcripts, depending on your needs and compliance requirements.

Since accuracy depends on the transcription provider you choose, it is recommended that you run the same meetings through several providers to determine which provider is going to be the best fit for your language. Recall.ai integrates with several transcription providers so you can connect the speech-to-text engine that best matches your needs for language, accuracy, and cost.

You can get recordings and transcripts in addition to metadata, speaker names, timestamps, and participant emails.

They're often used interchangeably. Both meeting transcription API and meeting transcript API refer to an API that allows access to transcripts for meetings hosted on meeting platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or Google Meet.

Recall.ai's meeting transcription supports over 30 languages using Recall Transcription. Other transcription providers support varying numbers of languages.

Yes. You can sign up for self-serve and get your first several hours free to test on Recall.ai.