Zoom Live Transcription
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Built-in live transcription and captioning in Zoom meetings.
Best for zoom users wanting accessible live captions and post-meeting transcripts. Pricing: free for paid Zoom plans.
What it is
Zoom ships live transcription and captioning built into the host platform. Available on all paid Zoom plans.
Watch out for: Quality varies by accent and audio; not as accurate as dedicated meeting scribes.
Install / use
zoom.us — built in
What people actually do with Zoom Live Transcription-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | 10 |
| HIPAA eligible | Yes |
Zoom Live Transcription vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Zoom Live Transcription | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | 10 | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Zoom Live Transcription
Frequently asked about Zoom Live Transcription
Is Zoom Live Transcription free?
Yes. Zoom Live Transcription is free (free for paid Zoom plans).
Does Zoom Live Transcription work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Zoom Live Transcription runs on Web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.
How do I get started with Zoom Live Transcription?
There is nothing to install — Zoom Live Transcription is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
How many languages does Zoom Live Transcription support?
Zoom Live Transcription lists 10 languages.
What are the limitations of Zoom Live Transcription?
Quality varies by accent and audio; not as accurate as dedicated meeting scribes.
Who is Zoom Live Transcription best for?
Zoom users wanting accessible live captions and post-meeting transcripts.
Is Zoom Live Transcription open source?
No. Zoom Live Transcription is a proprietary product from Zoom Communications. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Zoom Live Transcription?
Zoom Live Transcription is made by Zoom Communications.
What kind of tool is Zoom Live Transcription?
In this directory Zoom Live Transcription is filed under product as a product.
What are the alternatives to Zoom Live Transcription?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/zoom-captions-alternatives comparing Zoom Live Transcription with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Zoom Live Transcription-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Zoom Live Transcription?
Zoom Live Transcription is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Zoom Live Transcription?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Zoom Live Transcription category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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Need the subtitle file itself?
Upload the recording or paste a link and download SRT or VTT: see the SRT file generator, SRT subtitles from a YouTube link and the subtitle generator.
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