Google Meet transcriptionTranscribe a Google Meet recording from Drive

Google Meet is generous with the recording and stingy with the transcript. If a meeting was recorded, the MP4 is sitting in the organizer’s Drive whether or not anyone’s Workspace edition includes transcripts or AI notes. Google Meet transcription with Hushscript starts where Meet stops: take the recording Meet already made, upload it, and get a speaker-labeled transcript that doesn’t depend on anybody’s tier.

From Drive to transcript in three steps

Open the Meet Recordings folder in the organizer’s Drive (or the link in the calendar event), download the MP4, and drop it on this page. The first 5 minutes preview with speaker labels before you commit anything. Then sign up for the full transcript: your first 30 minutes are free, with a card validated by a $1 check (released right away, never charged), or arriving with your first purchase if you pay another way.

The tier lottery, sidestepped

Whether Meet itself transcribes your meeting depends on which Workspace edition is paying for the meeting, what the admin enabled, and when Google last moved the feature between tiers. The recording file doesn’t care about any of that. If the MP4 exists, the transcript is available to whoever holds the file – organizer or not, Workspace or not.

One honest limitation

A Meet recording is video, and video always comes from a local file – the audio track is extracted on your device, so the MP4 itself never uploads. That means you download the recording from Drive first rather than pasting its share link. Audio files are the exception: those can be imported directly from a Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive share link. Either way, the heavy video file goes no further than your browser.

What you get back

One editable transcript document: every line attributed to a labeled speaker, timecodes throughout, inline editing and find-and-replace, and language tabs if you add translation targets (+25% of the duration each, useful when a distributed team’s meeting needs reading in two languages). Your first Insights run is free and adds summaries, action items, decisions, and open questions with transcript evidence, plus a meeting-minutes export. Everything exports in 21 formats.

Where the recording ends up

Nowhere. The extracted audio is deleted the moment your transcript is ready, recordings are never used for training, and the transcript itself is stored encrypted, under retention rules you set – or not stored at all, in private mode. EU, EEA, Swiss, and UK audio is processed in the EU.

What Google Meet transcription costs

A 30-minute standup recording costs about $0.25 on the largest pack ($49.99 for 100 h, about $0.50 an hour); an hour-long review about $0.50. No subscription, no per-seat pricing – the cost tracks recorded minutes, not team size.

Google Meet and Google Drive are trademarks of Google LLC. Hushscript is an independent service, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.