AI Meeting Transcription — No Subscription Required
Transform your meeting recordings into searchable transcripts with speaker labels, AI summaries, and action items. Works with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and any recorded meeting. Pay only for what you use at $0.067 per minute.
Meetings are where decisions happen, but the details often fade quickly. Within 24 hours, most people forget up to 50% of what was discussed in a meeting. Written notes help, but note-taking during meetings means divided attention — you are either listening or writing, rarely both. And shared meeting notes are often incomplete, reflecting the note-taker's interpretation rather than what was actually said.
Meeting transcription solves this by creating a complete, accurate record of every word spoken. With PlainScribe, you upload your meeting recording after it ends and receive a full transcript with speaker labels within minutes. Our AI summarization highlights key decisions and discussion points, making it easy to share meeting outcomes with stakeholders who could not attend.
Unlike subscription-based tools like Otter.ai that charge per seat per month, PlainScribe uses simple pay-as-you-go pricing. You pay $0.067 per minute of audio transcribed, with no monthly fees, no per-user charges, and no long-term commitments. For teams that record meetings occasionally rather than daily, this model is significantly more cost-effective.
How Meeting Transcription Works
Upload Your Recording
Download your meeting recording from Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or any platform. Drag and drop the file into PlainScribe. We accept MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, WAV, and all common formats up to 200MB in the web uploader.
AI Processes Your Meeting
Our AI transcribes the audio, identifies individual speakers, generates timestamps, and creates a summary with key discussion points. Processing takes approximately 10-20 minutes for a 60-minute meeting.
Review, Edit & Share
Review the transcript in our editor, rename speakers, correct any terms, and export in your preferred format (TXT, DOCX, PDF). Share meeting notes with your team in minutes.
Key Features
Speaker Diarization
Automatic speaker identification labels who said what. Rename speakers in the editor for clear, attributable meeting records.
AI Meeting Summaries
Generate concise summaries that capture key discussion points, decisions, and outcomes from your meetings.
Action Item Detection
AI highlights action items and commitments mentioned during the meeting, helping ensure follow-through.
Accurate Timestamps
Every segment is timestamped, so you can jump to any moment in the recording to hear exactly what was said.
Additional Features
- 47 language support for international meetings
- Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT
- Searchable transcript archive
- Automatic punctuation and formatting
- Secure cloud storage for all transcripts
- API access for workflow integration
Meeting Transcription Use Cases
From daily standups to board meetings, PlainScribe helps teams capture and share what matters.
Team Standups & Syncs
Daily and weekly standups go by quickly. Transcription captures status updates, blockers, and commitments that are easy to miss in fast-paced sync meetings. Review at your own pace and track progress over time.
Client Calls & Sales Meetings
Never forget what a client said or what was promised during a sales call. Transcripts provide an accurate record of client requirements, objections, pricing discussions, and agreed-upon next steps.
Board Meetings & Leadership Reviews
Board meetings involve critical decisions and strategic discussions. Accurate transcripts serve as official records, complement formal minutes, and ensure that decisions and rationale are preserved.
Job Interviews & HR Meetings
Transcribe candidate interviews to review responses carefully, compare candidates objectively, and maintain accurate records for compliance. Useful for panel interviews where multiple interviewers contribute.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
No per-seat fees. No monthly subscriptions. Pay only for the meetings you transcribe.
For meeting transcription
$2.01
30-min standup
$4.00
1-hour meeting
$12.06
3-hour strategy session
- 15 free minutes to start
- No credit card required for trial
- No per-seat or per-user charges
- Credits do not expire
“Otter.ai Pro costs $16.99/month per user — for a 10-person team, that is $169.90/month regardless of usage. PlainScribe charges $0.067/min with no per-seat fees, so the same team transcribing 20 hours of meetings per month would pay just $80.40 total.”
“A 30-minute daily standup costs $2.01 to transcribe with PlainScribe — less than $10 per week for a complete searchable record of your team's status updates, blockers, and commitments.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, PlainScribe accepts video and audio files from all major meeting platforms. Simply download the recording from Zoom (MP4 or M4A), Microsoft Teams (MP4), Google Meet (via Google Drive), or any other platform, then upload it to PlainScribe. We support all common video and audio formats.
Yes, PlainScribe includes automatic speaker diarization that identifies and labels different speakers in your meeting recordings. Each speaker is labeled (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.), and you can rename them in our editor. This makes it easy to follow who said what during the meeting.
Yes, PlainScribe includes AI summarization that can generate concise meeting summaries. The AI identifies key discussion points and decisions from your transcript. While it highlights important topics, we recommend reviewing the summary and manually confirming action items to ensure nothing is missed.
PlainScribe and Otter.ai take different approaches. Otter.ai offers live, real-time transcription during meetings with direct Zoom/Teams integration. PlainScribe transcribes recorded meeting files after the fact. PlainScribe is cheaper ($0.067/min vs Otter Pro at $16.99/month), requires no subscription, and supports 47 languages. Otter.ai is better if you need live transcription during meetings.
PlainScribe accepts files up to 200MB in the web uploader, which typically covers many meeting recordings. For larger meetings, extract the audio track or split the file before uploading. A 3-hour strategy meeting would cost approximately $12.06 to transcribe.
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