AI transcript summarizer
for Zoom, Teams and Meet
Upload the .vtt or .docx from Zoom or Teams, paste a Google Meet transcript, or paste your notes. You get a TL;DR, the key points, decisions, action items, open questions and a line on what each named participant contributed, in a brief, standard or detailed version. Free, no account for your first result.
Sent to our AI provider, not kept by Reline
Files are turned into text in your browser. That text is sent through Reline's AI gateway to the AI model provider that writes the summary, and Reline does not keep it. Your first summary needs no account and no email.
Your text is sent through Reline's AI gateway to the AI model provider that writes the result. Reline does not keep it.
Your summary appears here
Add a transcript or your notes, pick a length, then press Write the summary. Every length keeps the decisions, action items and open questions.
Three steps to a summary
Add the transcript
Drop the .vtt or .docx from Zoom or Teams, paste the text of a Google Meet transcript, or paste rough notes. Up to about 200,000 characters, roughly a three-hour meeting.
Pick the length and language
Brief gives a one-sentence TL;DR and 3 to 5 key points, standard gives 5 to 8, and detailed gives 8 to 15 for someone who missed the meeting. Keep the transcript's language or choose one of seven.
Read it, then share it
Check the decisions against the transcript, then copy the summary as Markdown, paste it into Word, Google Docs or your team chat, or download it.
A summary shaped around the meeting
Built for whole meetings
A 30-minute call is already around 25,000 characters, so a small paste box cuts most meetings off part way through. This one takes about 200,000 characters, roughly three hours, in a single pass.
Three lengths
Brief gives a one-sentence TL;DR and the 3 to 5 points that matter most. Standard gives 5 to 8 key points. Detailed gives 8 to 15, with the figures and reasons the transcript gives. Every length keeps the decisions, action items and open questions.
Decisions and people kept apart
Decisions, action items and open questions each get their own section. When the transcript has names, each participant gets a line on what they mainly raised or took on.
Your language, your doc
Write the summary in the transcript's language or in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese or Arabic, then copy it as Markdown or paste it into Word and Google Docs with the headings kept.
How to summarize a Teams, Zoom or Google Meet transcript
Every big meeting platform can save a transcript. Getting it out is the first step, and each platform keeps it somewhere different. Here is where to find it, what a useful summary keeps, and how to check one before you send it.
Microsoft Teams
If transcription was on, open the meeting from your Teams calendar or chat, go to Recap, then Transcript, and choose Download as .docx or .vtt. Either file works here. If the download option is missing, the organizer may have limited who can get the transcript, so ask them for the file. Teams puts the speaker's name on every line, which lets the summary say what each person contributed.
Zoom
Zoom writes a transcript for cloud recordings when audio transcript is switched on in your recording settings. After the meeting, sign in to the Zoom web portal, open your cloud recordings, pick the meeting and download the audio transcript, a .vtt file. Recordings saved to your own computer do not get this transcript, so the setting has to be on before the call starts. If the host recorded locally, the next best source is the notes someone typed during the call.
Google Meet
On Google Workspace plans that include transcripts, Meet saves the transcript as a Google Doc in the organizer's Drive and links it from the calendar event. Open the Doc and copy the text, or download it with File, Download, Microsoft Word, and drop the .docx here. Either way the speaker names come along.
What a good summary keeps
The decision and the reason for it, in one line. Every action item with an owner and a due date. Questions that were raised and left open. Numbers, dates and names exactly as they were said. It drops greetings, repeated points and tangents. A standard summary usually reads as a one or two sentence TL;DR, five to eight key points, the decisions, the action items with owners and any open questions. Pick the length by the reader: brief for someone who only needs the outcome, standard for the team, detailed for someone who missed a long meeting and has to pick up the work.
Check it before you share it
AI summaries can be wrong in quiet ways: a suggestion written up as a decision, two similar names merged, a figure rounded. Before you send one, read the decisions and owners against the transcript and search the transcript for any number that matters. This summarizer is told to copy names, dates and figures from your material and to leave an owner or due date empty rather than invent one, and it drops any owner or participant name that is not in your text, which narrows what you have to check. If you share it in a team channel, put the full transcript underneath so anyone can check a point for themselves.
Transcript summaries, answered
- How do I summarize a Teams transcript without Copilot?
- Download the transcript from the meeting's Recap tab as .docx or .vtt and drop the file on this page. The summarizer reads the names Teams wrote next to each line, and returns a TL;DR, key points, decisions and action items. You do not need Copilot, a Microsoft add-on or a Reline account for your first summary.
- Can I summarize a Zoom or Google Meet transcript?
- Yes. From Zoom, download the audio transcript of a cloud recording from the Zoom web portal, which is a .vtt file, and drop it here. From Google Meet, open the transcript Doc in the organizer's Drive and paste its text, or download it as .docx. Both keep speaker names, so the summary can say what each person contributed.
- Does it join or record my meeting?
- No. Nothing joins your call and nothing is recorded. The summarizer works only on a transcript or notes you already have. If you would rather have the transcript made for you, the Reline app records meetings on your own computer without a bot in the call, then writes the summary and action items when the meeting ends.
- Can ChatGPT summarize a meeting transcript?
- Yes, if you paste the transcript and ask for what you need. You have to spell out the structure each time, check that a long transcript was read to the end, and pull decisions and owners out of the prose yourself. This summarizer has those sections built in, reads .vtt and .docx files directly, and lets you pick a brief, standard or detailed version.
- How does this summarizer avoid inventing names or numbers?
- It is instructed to copy names, dates and figures from your transcript and to leave an owner or due date empty rather than guess one. Then every owner and participant name is checked against your text, and a name that does not appear there is removed before you see the result. Figures are not checked that way, so compare any number that matters with the transcript before you share the summary.
- 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 summary. 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 first.
- How long a transcript can it summarize?
- About 200,000 characters, roughly a three-hour meeting, in one pass. A 30-minute call is around 25,000 characters, so most meetings fit with plenty of room. Input under 80 characters is turned away, because there is too little in it to summarize honestly. For an all-day session, paste the part you most need summarized.
- Which languages does it write in?
- The summary is written in the transcript's own language unless you pick another. The choices are English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and Arabic, and the output does not have to match the meeting, so a call held in Portuguese can be summarized in English for a wider team. Transcripts in most widely spoken languages can be read.
Get the summary without the transcript chore
Exporting, downloading and pasting is the part Reline removes. It records the meeting on your own computer without sending a bot into the call, transcribes it live, and writes the summary and action items into the note when the meeting ends. Sign up from this browser within a day and the summary you made here is saved as a private note.
The free plan covers 1 hour per note, 10 hours of transcription a month and 2 GB of storage. No card needed.
- No bot in the call: Reline records your microphone and system audio on your computer
- A live transcript in 60+ languages, with the summary and action items in the same note
- Ask a question in chat and the answer quotes the transcript with timestamps
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