Record a Call

Record a call from Zoom, Meet or Teams in your browser and get a transcript with timestamps. Free and unlimited.

Your microphone catches your side, the tab catches theirs, mixed into one recording.

Your voice never leaves

Your browser downloads the speech model once, then runs it on your own machine. Your audio itself is never transmitted, on the first run or any run. Compare that with services that hold your recording for thirty days.

Timestamps on every line

Every line is timed and editable. Export as text, SRT, VTT, JSON, CSV or Markdown once you have it the way you want.

No account, no minutes

No sign-up, no email, no monthly minute cap and no paid tier holding the useful part hostage.

About this tool

Record a Call runs entirely inside your browser, so your file is never uploaded anywhere. Speech recognition uses OpenAI's Whisper, the same model most paid services run, except here it runs on your machine rather than theirs. The model is downloaded once, about 76 MB, and cached by your browser. Your recording itself is never transmitted.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes, and there is nothing unpleasant to find later. No account, no email, no minute cap, no watermark, and no paid tier holding the useful part. Your own computer does the work, so there is no per minute cost for us to pass on to you.

How long does it take?

The first time, your browser downloads a 76 MB speech model. That happens once and is then cached. After that it depends on your device: on the machine this was built on, eight seconds of audio took about eleven seconds with the model already loaded, using the graphics card. A device without WebGPU falls back to the processor and takes longer.

Do you keep my recording?

We never receive it. That is worth being exact about, because most transcription services upload your audio to a server and promise to delete it afterwards. Here the audio never leaves your device, so there is no copy to delete, nothing to leak, and nothing anyone could ask us to hand over.

How do I check that for myself?

Open your browser's developer tools and watch the network panel. On the first run you will see the speech model being fetched, once. After that you will see nothing at all while it transcribes, because your audio is never sent anywhere.

How accurate is it?

It uses Whisper, the same model family the paid services use. Clear speech from one or two people comes out very well. Heavy accents, background noise and people talking over each other are where every speech model struggles, and this runs a smaller version than a server would, so it will make more mistakes on difficult audio. Every line is editable before you export.

What files can I use?

Video or audio: MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI, MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AAC, WMA and more. The soundtrack is pulled out of a video automatically, so an MP4 behaves exactly like an MP3.

Can I get subtitles rather than plain text?

Yes. Every line carries a start and end time, so you can export straight to SRT or WebVTT for a video editor, or to TXT, JSON, CSV or Markdown if you only want the words.

Is there a length limit?

Long video is the current weak point. The whole file is decoded in memory, so a two hour recording can exhaust what a browser allows and fail. Calls, interviews, podcasts and ordinary recordings are fine. Chunked handling for long files is being built.

Does it work offline?

Once the model has been downloaded, yes. Disconnect from the internet and it keeps transcribing, because everything it needs is already sitting in your browser.

Can I record instead of choosing a file?

Yes. Record from your microphone, or capture the audio of another browser tab to get both sides of a call. Both can run at once and are mixed into one recording.

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