Free AI meeting minutes generator
from a Zoom, Teams or Meet transcript
Upload a Zoom or Teams transcript (.vtt or .docx), paste the text of a Google Meet transcript, or paste your own rough notes. You get minutes in the standard format: attendees, overview, topics, decisions, open questions and action items grouped by person. Free, no account for your first result.
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Your minutes appear here
Add a transcript or your notes, then press Write the minutes. You get them in the standard format, ready to check and send.
From transcript to minutes in three steps
Add the transcript
Upload the .vtt from Zoom or Teams or the Teams .docx, paste the text of a Google Meet transcript, or paste the notes you typed during the call. Up to about 200,000 characters, roughly a three-hour meeting.
Choose the language
Keep the transcript's own language, or have the minutes written in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese or Arabic. A German call can come back as English minutes.
Check it, then send it
Read the decisions and owners against what you remember, then copy the minutes as Markdown, paste them into Word or Google Docs, or download them.
Minutes you can send without rewriting
Action items per person
Each task sits under the person who took it, with the due date in their own words, such as "Friday" or "end of Q3". Tasks nobody claimed are listed as Unassigned instead of being pinned on a guess.
Long meetings in one pass
Up to about 200,000 characters, roughly a three-hour meeting, with no need to cut the transcript into pieces first. A 30-minute call is around 25,000 characters, so most meetings fit with room to spare.
Seven output languages
The minutes come back in the transcript's language, or in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese or Arabic, so a call held in Spanish can be written up for a board that reads English.
Ready for your doc
Copy the minutes as Markdown, or paste them into Word or Google Docs with the headings kept. The tool is told to copy names, dates and figures from the transcript and to leave a blank rather than guess.
The minutes of meeting (MOM) format, and a template to copy
Minutes are the short record of what a meeting decided and who owes what next. They are not a transcript and not a diary. Here is what goes into them, a template in the MOM format this generator follows, and how to turn a raw transcript into minutes you can stand behind.
What minutes are for
Someone who missed the meeting should be able to read the minutes in two minutes and know what changed. That sets the rules. Record outcomes, not the conversation: what was decided, what is still open, and who is doing what by when. Write in the past tense, keep opinions out, attribute decisions to the group and tasks to a named person. If a sentence would not change what anyone does next week, it probably does not belong.
The MOM format, section by section
Header: the meeting title, the date and who attended. Overview: two to four sentences on why the group met and the headline result. Topics: a short heading for each subject discussed, with the two or three points that mattered. Decisions: one line each, written as a settled outcome. Action items: task, owner and due date for every commitment. Open questions: what was raised and not resolved. Next meeting: the date and time, if one was set. The generator follows that order.
A minutes template you can copy
Weekly product sync, 14 October. Attendees: Dana Ortiz, Sam Lee, Priya Shah. Overview: the team agreed to move the pricing page launch by one week to finish the legal review. Topics: pricing page (legal comments on the refund wording, design is ready). Decisions: launch moves to 21 October. Action items: Dana sends the revised refund wording to legal by Thursday; Sam updates the release notes by Monday; Unassigned: book the launch review. Open questions: do annual plans get the new refund window? Next meeting: 21 October at 10:00.
Turning a transcript into minutes
A transcript is raw material: every word in speaking order, small talk and false starts included. To get minutes out of it, read for commitments. Phrases like "I'll take that", "let's go with" and "can you have it by" mark action items and decisions. Collapse a ten-minute debate into the one line it ended on. Keep figures and dates exactly as they were said, and when nobody clearly took a task, list it as unassigned rather than guessing an owner.
When a person still has to sign off
For a team sync, a quick read before you send is enough. Formal minutes are different: boards, councils, associations and committees usually approve their minutes at the next meeting, and from then on they are the official record. An AI draft is a fast first version for those, not the final word. Check every name, vote, number and owner against the transcript before it goes out.
Meeting minutes, answered
- Can ChatGPT write meeting minutes?
- Yes. Paste a transcript into ChatGPT, describe the format you want and it will draft minutes. The work is in the prompt and the cleanup: you ask for decisions, owners and due dates every time, check that a long transcript was read to the end, and reformat the answer for your doc. This generator has the minutes format built in, reads Zoom and Teams files directly and groups action items by person.
- What is the difference between meeting minutes and a meeting summary?
- Minutes are the record: attendees, decisions, action items with owners and open questions, in a fixed format that can be filed, circulated and sometimes formally approved. A summary is a shorter recap of what was discussed, written for someone who wants the gist in a minute. Use minutes when you need accountability, and a summary when people only need to catch up.
- Does it join or record my call?
- No. It never joins a meeting and never records anything. It works on a transcript you already have: Zoom can save one with cloud recordings, Teams lets you download one as .vtt or .docx, and Google Meet saves one as a Google Doc. Notes you typed yourself work too. If you want a recording without a bot in the call, that is what the Reline app does.
- What is a MOM generator, and what goes into the minutes?
- MOM stands for minutes of meeting, so a MOM generator is a tool that writes the minutes for you. A complete set has a header with the title, date and attendees, a short overview, the topics discussed, the decisions made, action items with an owner and a due date, open questions and the next meeting date. This generator fills in every section it can find in your transcript.
- Is my transcript private?
- Your file is turned into text in your browser, and that text is sent through Reline's AI gateway to the AI model provider that writes the minutes. Both are listed on our sub-processors page. Reline does not keep the text and does not save it to a database. To stop abuse, runs are counted against a one-way hash of your IP address, never your content. If a transcript holds something you would not share with an outside service, take it out before you paste.
- How long a transcript can I use?
- Up to about 200,000 characters, which is roughly a three-hour meeting. A typical 30-minute call is around 25,000 characters, so most meetings fit in one pass with no splitting. The input also needs at least 80 characters, since anything shorter does not hold enough to write minutes from. For an all-day session, paste the part where the decisions were made.
- Which languages does it work in?
- By default the minutes are written in the same language as the transcript. You can also choose English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese or Arabic for the output, whatever language the meeting was held in, so a Japanese call can come back as English minutes. Transcripts in most widely spoken languages can be read.
- Can AI-written minutes be the official record?
- They can be the draft. For a team meeting, a quick check before you send is usually all the review needed. Boards, councils, associations and committees normally approve their minutes at the next meeting, so a person has to confirm every decision, vote and name first. This generator copies figures and dates from the transcript and leaves an owner blank rather than guessing, which makes that check faster.
Skip the transcript step next time
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