Google Meet Transcription from Your Drive Recording
Meet saves recordings to the organizer’s Google Drive: share the file as “Anyone with the link”, paste that link here and get a transcript with speakers, in any of 120+ languages.
Google Drive links to Meet recordings · or upload the downloaded file
Share the recording, paste the link
Click or drag & drop to upload your audio or videoTap to upload your audio or video
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Where Meet’s Built-in Transcript Falls Short
Meet transcripts cover English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Calls in Dutch, Polish or Arabic need another tool.
Essentials editions and Google One 2 TB can record a meeting but get no Meet transcript. The recording itself can still become text.
Rename speakers, correct names against the audio and export subtitles for the recording, not just a document to read.
Google Meet and Transcripts at a Glance
What Google Workspace records and transcribes, by plan, as of this check.
Facts checked 7 November 2026, against Google Meet Help
- Who can record
- Business Standard and Plus, Essentials, Enterprise, Education Plus, Workspace Individual, Google One with 2 TB or more
- Who gets transcripts
- Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise, Education Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Workspace Individual
- Transcript languages
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
- Devices for transcripts
- Started from a computer, laptop or Android device
- Where files go
- The organizer’s Drive, “Google Meet” folder, one sub-folder per meeting
- Older recordings
- The previous “Meet Recordings” folder is being renamed “Legacy Meet Recordings”
Before You Paste the Drive Link
The recording belongs to whoever organised the meeting.
Access
Share it as “Anyone with the link”
A link restricted to your organisation can’t be fetched. Change General access to “Anyone with the link”, transcribe, then switch it back.
Owner
Ask the organizer if you can’t find it
Recordings land in the organizer’s Drive. Participants get a link by email or in the Calendar event only if it was shared with them.
Privacy
Download instead of sharing
If your policy forbids public links, download the recording from Drive and upload the file. It never needs to be public.
How to Transcribe a Google Meet Recording
From link or file to editable text in three steps.
Find it in the organizer’s Google Meet folder, or in the link from the meeting email.
Set access to “Anyone with the link”, copy it and paste it here, or upload the downloaded file.
Rename speakers, then export DOCX or PDF minutes, or SRT subtitles for the video.