Do I need to enable Meet recording in advance?

Yes — recording must be enabled by an organiser during the meeting. After the meeting, the MP4 saves to your Drive automatically.

What's the difference between this and Google's built-in meeting notes?

Google's notes (where available) are AI-generated summaries within Google's ecosystem. Our converter produces a full transcript as Markdown, portable to any tool. Use both if useful.

Can I get the speaker names from the meeting?

No, and we don't label speakers at all, not even as "Speaker 1". The transcription engine converts speech to text and does not identify voices, so the output is continuous text with H2 sections and timestamps. Google's built-in tools have access to the attendee list, so they can name speakers automatically; for after-the-fact attribution, a dedicated diarisation tool (WhisperX, pyannote) is the right complement.

Will this work with Google Meet Live Streaming?

Live streaming saves a recording the same as a normal Meet. Download from Drive, upload here.

How do this and Tactiq differ?

Tactiq is a Chrome extension that captures live captions during Meet calls in real-time, syncs to a workspace. We're a post-meeting MP4-upload converter. See vs Tactiq for a full comparison.

Google Meet to Markdown — Meeting Recordings as Text

The Google Meet workflow

Recording a Meet requires Google Workspace Business Standard or higher (and the recording option enabled). After the meeting, the MP4 lands in your Drive in a "Meet Recordings" folder. Download to your computer, then upload to Video to Markdown.

Meet's built-in transcripts vs ours

Google Workspace now includes auto-generated meeting notes (Gemini-powered) for some plans. The advantage of converting to external Markdown: portability beyond Google Workspace, H2 topic structure and timestamps, integration with non-Google tools (Notion, Obsidian, custom AI workflows). Note that we transcribe the words without identifying speakers, so there are no participant labels in our output.

Action items from a Meet

Once you have the Markdown, paste it into Claude or ChatGPT with "extract action items and deadlines if mentioned". The section structure and the names people say out loud make this reliable. Distribute via email or paste into your project tracker.

Google Meet to Markdown — Meeting Recordings as Text

The Google Meet workflow

Meet's built-in transcripts vs ours

Action items from a Meet

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