Zoom api for transcripts

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I did not find any api which can provide me the transcripts of the meeting without recording the meet. Does it not exist?
Does the /meetings/{meetingId}/recordings api always provide the closed captions or the transcripts of the meeting?

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Hi @rupinder.goyal
Thanks for reaching out to the Zoom Developer Forum and welcome to our community
To be able to get the transcripts of a meeting, you must record the meeting

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@rupinder.goyal, unfortunately, there are no direct API endpoints to access the transcripts at the moment from Zoom without recording. There are normally 4 ways you can get transcription from Zoom.

1. Use the Zoom Cloud Recording API

Pros:

  • Doesn’t require any 3rd party services.

Cons:

  • Participants need to remember to record the meeting, or the admin needs to configure the Zoom workspace to record every meeting automatically
  • You need to use a third party transcription API to pipe the audio to.

2. Build a desktop app to capture users’ computer audio

Pros:

  • Works across all meeting platforms.

Cons:

  • You need to build a separate app for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • App runs on users’ computer so it can slow their computer down/make computer fans go off
  • No speaker separation
  • You need to use a third party transcription API to pipe the audio to.

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
  • You need to encode the raw audio yourself
  • You need to use a third party transcription API to pipe the audio to.

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.

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 across all meeting platforms

Cons:

  • It’s another 3rd party service in your stack

Let me know if you have any questions!

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Can you elaborate on the zoom bot approach please?

I thought these were for help desks/etc. are you saying they can somehow capture audio/video/cc from a zoom meeting?

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@david.schwartz Zoom has SDKs for windows, mac, and linux. amanda-recallai has another reply with more info about that. They get the raw video and audio frames from the meeting but they have to be encoded to be viewable.

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