# Get Zoom Transcription **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Tags:** recording\ **Created:** [September 21, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-zoom-transcription/95517 "2023-09-21T09:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alexpandian7ks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/alexpandian7ks/32/52259_2.png) [@alexpandian7ks](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/alexpandian7ks)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-zoom-transcription/95517/1 "2023-09-21T09:44:58Z")
Is there any transcription API that I can use to get the closed captioning for development within the Zoom app? ---
**Author:** ![elisa.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/elisa.zoom/32/47836_2.png) [@elisa.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/elisa.zoom)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-zoom-transcription/95517/2 "2023-09-22T15:08:22Z")
Hi @alexpandian7ks Thanks for reaching out to us and welcome to our community! I am happy to help here! Unfortunately, we do not have a transcription API available at the time ---
**Author:** ![amanda-recallai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/amanda-recallai/32/44747_2.png) [@amanda-recallai](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/amanda-recallai)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 1:24am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-zoom-transcription/95517/3 "2023-10-15T01:24:12Z")
@alexpandian7ks, like @elisa.zoom mentioned, there isn’t a transcription API available at the moment. There is a workaround though - you can capture the audio data, and run that through a third-party transcription provider on your end. Here are 4 other ways you could explore to create a real-time transcript from a Zoom meeting. ## 1. Use the Zoom RTMP live-streaming API **Pros:** - Doesn’t require any 3rd party services - Lighter weight than building and running a Zoom bot **Cons:** - Needs to initiated on a per-meeting basis - You need to set up an RTMP server to receive the data, which requires engineering effort to deploy, scale, and monitor - Participants can get spooked by the “live” badge that appears in the meeting (even if it’s a privte meeting) - No speaker separation ## 2. Build a desktop app to capture users’ computer audio **Pros:** - One of the most cost effective solutions **Cons:** - You need to build a separate app for Windows, Mac and Linux - It is especially difficult to tap into computer audio on Mac - App runs on users’ computer so it can slow their computer down/make computer fans go off - No speaker separation ## 3. Build a Zoom bot **Pros:** - Can get the separate audio streams per participant for perfect diarization / speaker labels **Cons:** - It is very heavy-weight as you would need to spin up multiple servers to run the Zoom client for the bot - Running infrastructure for Zoom bot costs more than live streaming. - You need to encode the raw video and audio yourself ## 4. Use Recall.ai It’s a unified API that lets you send meeting bots to video conferencing platforms to capture the audio, video and transcription in real-time. **Pros:** - Handles spinning up the servers, and providing the real-time raw audio/transcript so all you interact with is a simple API. - Works on any Zoom plan (including Free) - Gets speaker diarization / speaker labels - Works agnostic of meeting platform **Cons:** - It’s another 3rd party service in your stack Let me know if you have any questions! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/get-zoom-transcription/95517/4 "2023-10-16T16:57:45Z")
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