Hi!
I would like to get the conversation time of the person speaking and real-time transcription data, is there an API provided that I could use?
If you know of one, I would appreciate it if you could let me know.
@Takuya, unfortunately, there are no direct API endpoints to access the real-time transcript. However, 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!
@amanda-recallai It’s unfortunate that the API isn’t available, but I will try the alternative solutions you suggested one by one. Thank you for your response!
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