Turn a Transcript Into Meeting Minutes
Paste a transcript you already have, from Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or another transcription tool, and get it back as meeting minutes: a summary, the decisions made, and any action items the text mentions. There is no recording step and no upload of an audio or video file. If the meeting is already transcribed, this tool works from the text alone.
Working from text instead of a recording skips the wait for transcription. The AI reads the pasted transcript directly and returns minutes without processing any audio.
What you get:
- Paste text directly, or upload a TXT, DOC or DOCX file
- A summary and the decisions made, written in plain language
- action items with an owner and deadline, and decisions listed separately, when the transcript states them
- Choose the output language from 12 options, and Full notes or a Quick summary
- Copy the result or download it as a text file
- Free, no signup required, runs in your browser
If you have a recording instead of a transcript, ScreenApp’s meeting minutes generator transcribes it for you and builds the minutes from that.
How to Convert a Transcript to Minutes
- Paste or upload your transcript: Paste the text directly, or upload a TXT, DOC or DOCX file exported from Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or another transcription tool.
- Choose a language and format: Pick the output language from 12 options, and choose Full notes for a detailed writeup or a Quick summary.
- Read or download the minutes: The AI returns a summary, the decisions made, and the action items the transcript mentions. Copy the text or download it as a file.
The minutes are only as complete as the transcript you paste in. One with clear speaker labels and few transcription errors produces a cleaner summary; a transcript with no speaker names leaves the minutes generic about who said what. If you are recording or uploading audio instead of pasting text, accuracy also depends on the recording itself; see how we measure accuracy.
Transcript to Meeting Minutes Converter vs Other Tools
| Feature | ScreenApp | Tactiq | Otter.ai | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input | Paste text, or upload TXT, DOCX | TXT, DOC, DOCX and PDF, up to 50KB | Not stated (records or imports audio; no transcript-paste tool) | Not stated (meeting bot or uploaded recording; no transcript-paste tool) |
| Action items | action items with an owner and deadline, and decisions listed separately | Included | Included, automatically assigned | Included |
| Output format | Copy, or download as text | PDF or copyable text | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free tier | Free, no signup | 10 transcripts/month | 300 min/month | 400 min storage/month |
| Paid plan (full app) | $19/month annual | $8/month annual | $8.33/month annual | $19/month annual |
Sources, checked 2026-09-28: ScreenApp pricing, tactiq.io/tools/ai-meeting-minutes-generator, tactiq.io, otter.ai, fireflies.ai, Tactiq plan guide, otter.ai/pricing, Fireflies pricing
- vs Tactiq: Tactiq’s meeting minutes tool accepts TXT, DOC, DOCX and PDF, up to 50KB and exports as PDF or copyable text. Its free plan is capped at 10 transcripts a month; Pro is $8 a month billed annually. ScreenApp’s transcript tool has no monthly cap.
- vs Otter.ai: Otter is built to record and transcribe audio, with 300 minutes a month on its free plan, and it does not offer a tool for pasting a transcript you already have. If you have a recording rather than a transcript, upload it to ScreenApp’s meeting minutes generator instead.
- vs Fireflies.ai: Fireflies works from a meeting bot or an uploaded recording, with 400 minutes of storage free a month. Like Otter, it has no plain transcript-paste tool; ScreenApp’s converter works directly from the text.
Who Converts a Transcript to Meeting Minutes
Executive assistants already have a Teams or Zoom transcript from the call and need it turned into minutes for distribution, without opening the recording again.
Project managers paste sprint planning or retrospective transcripts and pull out the decisions and action items without reading the whole document.
Compliance officers and legal teams convert deposition or discovery meeting transcripts they already hold into a structured summary for the file.
Consultants turn a client call transcript into a short set of minutes to send as a deliverable, without billing time to manual formatting.
Academic researchers paste an interview transcript and get a structured summary of the topics and any commitments discussed.
Sales teams paste a discovery call transcript exported from their call platform and pull out the prospect’s requirements and next steps.
