# Live transcription options

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462>\
**Category:** Zoom Apps\
**Created:** [July 26, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462 "2023-07-26T17:13:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ron.jailall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ron.jailall/32/611_2.png) [@ron.jailall](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ron.jailall)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462/1 "2023-07-26T17:13:16Z")

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**Description**  
We’re investigating an app that would require the current live transcript of the zoom meeting. This old issue notes this isn’t possible as an API event yet, and searching through the docs, that seems to still be the case.

Just wondering if this is still the current and near term situation with the App SDK?

> [@Best approach to get streaming Meeting Audio (or streaming transcript)](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/best-approach-to-get-streaming-meeting-audio-or-streaming-transcript/77376):
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> Today We are developing a Zoom App and are using the [{userId}/recordings](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/methods/#operation/recordingsList) endpoint to get the Audio Transcript for Cloud Recorded Meetings after the meeting is done. We process the transcript once ready, after the audio is transcribed by Zoom. This approach has limitations: Requires User to have Business License Requires Cloud Recording Must occur after a meeting cloud recording audio is transcribed What we want To processing a transcript of the meeting live while the meeting is running, l…

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**Author:** ![ron.jailall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ron.jailall/32/611_2.png) [@ron.jailall](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ron.jailall)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:17pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462/2 "2023-08-15T21:17:22Z")

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Bumping thread for visibility

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**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:** [August 15, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462/3 "2023-08-15T21:53:11Z")

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@ron.jailall, unfortunately Zoom still does not have an API for just the live transcription yet. You would still need to build a meeting bot for that.

Another option if you don’t want to build your own meeting bot is [Recall.ai](https://www.recall.ai) which gives you an API for live transcription that works on Zoom.

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**Author:** ![ron.jailall](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ron.jailall/32/611_2.png) [@ron.jailall](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ron.jailall)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/live-transcription-options/92462/4 "2023-08-16T00:30:57Z")

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Thanks, our plan b was to use an existing API, will check this out!