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Meeting Transcription

Transcribe meetings in minutes with 99% accuracy. Use the full Riverside platform to host, record, transcribe, and turn every conversation into instant summaries and repurposed content.

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How to create a meeting transcription with Riverside

Step 1

Record or upload your meeting 

Start a new recording in Riverside and capture your meeting locally in 4K high-quality video. Or, upload your own existing file.

Step 2

Transcribe your meeting recording

Sit back as our meeting transcription software automatically generates text and subtitle file transcripts.

Step 3

Download meeting transcripts

Preview and export your transcript files. Download a text transcript for quick summaries, or a subtitle file for meeting captions.

Step 4

Repurpose your transcript

Turn your meeting transcription into a summary, set of show notes, or blog post with our chat-based editor.

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Why Riverside:

Why use Riverside: Meeting transcription software built for your content workflow

Meeting transcripts with 99% accuracy

Our advanced AI meeting transcription software captures every word verbatim. Get an accurate transcript ready to share or repurpose the moment your meeting ends.

Export text or subtitle transcripts

Download TXT files for notes and summaries. Or export SRT subtitle files to add captions and make your meeting recordings more accessible to any audience.

Multilingual meeting transcriber 

Transcribe meetings and interviews in over 100 languages. If you’re recording directly on Riverside, you can even translate transcripts and videos in 30+ languages.

Crisp recordings for clean meeting transcripts

Cleaner audio means more accurate transcripts. Record your meetings directly on Riverside for crisp 48kHz audio and 4K video, all recorded locally on your device for maximum quality.

Repurpose meetings into marketing content

Turn your meetings into blog posts, thumbnails, promotional clips, and more just by prompting the chat-based editor.

Edit your meeting by editing your transcript

Polish your meeting recordings faster with our text-based editor. Any text you adjust in your meeting transcript automatically syncs to your video recording, no timeline editing needed.

More than meeting transcription

Where one meeting becomes endless content. Record, transcribe, edit, and repurpose your meetings in one platform.

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How to transcribe your meeting: 5 Tips

Follow these tips to get more accurate transcripts and more value from every meeting.

Record in high-quality audio

Transcription quality depends heavily on audio quality. Use a good mic, reduce background noise, and record locally to avoid audio compression.

Reduce overlap between speakers

People talking over each other is one of the biggest causes of messy meeting transcripts. Take turns speaking or, use separate track recording to get clean speaker labels.

Check names and important terms

AI often struggles with names, acronyms, and internal jargon. Review key details before sharing the transcript, especially for client calls, team updates, or research interviews.

Improving transcript accuracy with high quality recording
Repurposing meeting transcripts with Riverside

Turn transcripts into useful outputs

Repurpose your transcript to create documentation, action items, blog posts, or internal updates people can actually use.

Keep transcription inside your workflow

An end-to-end setup where recording, transcription, editing, and sharing work together saves time and makes it easier to turn meetings into polished content.

Use meeting transcription app to:

Transcribe client calls for an accurate paper trail

Keep a reliable record of every client conversation with automatic transcripts delivered the moment your call ends. No note-taking, no follow-up cleanup.

Transcribing client calls with Riverside

Get instant recaps after every meeting

Turn any meeting transcript into a clear summary with key points and action items. Get the insights you need without reading the full transcript.

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Search past meetings for exact quotes and decisions 

Need to refer back to a past meeting? Skip rewatching the recording and search your transcript for the exact quote, decision, or moment you need.

Searching meeting transcriptions with Riverside

Turn meetings into marketing content

Repurpose thought leadership interviews, panels, or customer testimonials into blogs, newsletters, social clips, and more.

Repurposing meetings with Riverside
“ I fell in love with Riverside after they introduced mobile video recording via their app because my guests can record anywhere, it’s great for repurposing the content and the video quality is better. “
Aazar Shad | Marketing Agency Owner

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQ

Yes, you can record and transcribe meeting minutes for free with free transcription software including:

  • Riverside’s: Use the free transcription tool, or get free unlimited transcripts built into your recording software on any of the paid plans.
  • Otter: The free plan offers 300 monthly transcription minutes.
  • Fireflies.ai: The free plan offers unlimited transcription but caps storage at 800 minutes per seat. 

A meeting transcription app is software that automatically converts your spoken meeting audio into written text. 

Most apps connect directly to platforms like Zoom or Google Meet to transcribe in real time. Others, like Riverside, let you record and transcribe in one place.

Meeting transcription apps typically offer:

  • Automatic transcription in text, subtitle or other various formats.
  • Quick summaries to easily get meeting takeaways. 
  • A search option so you can find key points in your meetings.
  • Speaker labels so you can see who said what in the meeting.

With Riverside you can transcribe meetings in 100+ languages. Our AI transcription includes widely spoken languages as well as regional variants like American, British, and Canadian English. 

This makes it easier to transcribe global meetings accurately and create content for international teams or audiences. Check out our full list of transcription languages.

Riverside’s meeting transcriptions are better built for content creation, whereas Zoom’s transcriptions are for live meetings or quick summaries.

This is how Riverside compares to Zoom’s meeting transcriptions:

  • Accuracy: Riverside records locally at high quality, giving the AI cleaner audio to work with and resulting in more accurate transcripts than Zoom's cloud-based recording.
  • Live transcriptions: Zoom offers live transcription during calls. Riverside transcribes after recording, prioritizing accuracy and repurposing over real-time output.
  • Formats: Riverside exports TXT and SRT files, compatible with most platforms and editing tools. Zoom only exports VTT files.
  • Repurposing tools: Riverside’s repurposing focuses more on turing your meeting transcript into content like blogs, newsletters, and clips. Zoom’s AI agent is more focus on meeting documents and internal insights.

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