Automatically Save Closed Caption Transcript

The Google Meet version that I'm using with Google Education Plus is not perfect either.  I don't see the transcript as it happens. When I used the app Scribbl, I liked the way I could see the transcript as it happened.  I think Zoom has that.  It just needs to save it.  We will see if they make the change.

I would very much like this feature as well. I use transcripts to feed into AI tools for summaries, etc. and I need this for meetings where I am an attendee rather than just the host. Please add a feature so that we can auto-save transcripts for meetings irrespective of if the meeting is recorded, we are the host or a participant or not.

Similar request here for autosave of the transcript. It's a less intrusive way of capturing the conversation and remaining present during meetings. I use the transcript to summarize notes and action items for calls. This has become a vital tool for me. Removing the pressure of manually hitting that save button to capture the transcript - or losing it altogether if I'm disconnected unexpectedly - would deliver huge peace of mind and help with my AI-assisted workflow to keep the team aligned.

Google Meet handles this concern about legality by posting this statement below, just fyi. I suppose when you record, people will know that. People should know if you are keeping a transcript. However you can do it--you just have to press save yourself.

How about for hosts only?

Please allow the host of a meeting to enable auto-save the transcription just like we auto-save chat!

Thank you.

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Workaround:

1. Open Transcripts 
2. Select Download

This option is available even if the meeting was accidentally closed without saving the transcript.

This is beyond me why this auto-save feature isn't available. I've lost transcript a couple of times now (forgot to save before leaving the meeting!) and this is hugely frustrating! I interview people for product improvements and then use transcripts to put a document together - transcripts are key in this process. 

It is a lame excuse imo to say that there are regulations and legal concerns or whatever is Zoom's excuse, as main competitors have this feature and no concerns from there side. Really, it's just embarrassing for Zoom not to have such a basic feature. Sorry, very frustrated! 

I totally just got burned 🔥 by this. I had never done it before. 

After taking a look at this thread, I 100% agree there should be options to save at a time increment or when the meeting ends. 

However, until that is available, just clicking the "Save Transcript" button is super quick and easy. It creates a new text document the first time and then overwrites the file each time you click it with the transcript updated to that point in time. 

So basically, you can click it obsessively throughout the meeting in the hope that you capture as much as you can, without worrying about it creating a bunch of files that you don't need. 

Has there been any resolution?  I have this same issue.  If I forget to hit save then everything is lost. My company has locked recordings so I can only use transcripts.

Wow, there is a lot of passion here for the small but mighty transcript. I'm adding my voice as an advocate for an automated way for hosts/co-hosts to save the transcript without recording to the cloud.

Our use case: A member of our account is embarking on a research project with clinical patients. They can't record the meetings or use AIC summaries for compliance reasons, but they can use the transcript. They take the raw transcript and code it for qualitative research. This is a longstanding research practice: interview subjects, transcribe the interview, code the conversation to turn the spoken words into data.  

An auto-save feature for transcripts is absolutely necessary. It is unacceptable that this is still outstanding over 2.5 years after the initial request above.