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Jul 17, 2025 3:03 PM UTC
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Feature Request: Auto-Save Transcript with Configurable Storage Path Option

Hello Zoom Team,

I’d like to request a much-needed enhancement to Zoom’s transcript feature that would significantly improve usability and avoid lost content—especially for co-hosts and participants who rely on transcripts for meeting documentation, note-taking, or compliance.

Feature Request:

Please add a Zoom setting or transcript app enhancement that enables auto-saving of the meeting transcript to a user-defined file path (e.g., local drive, OneDrive, or network folder).

This would eliminate the need to manually click “Save Transcript” at the end of every meeting.


Why this matters:

  1. Transcripts are often lost when another host ends the meeting before I have a chance to hit "Save."

  2. Sometimes the transcript panel gets hidden or closed, and I simply forget to reopen it to save before leaving the meeting.

  3. In multi-host meetings or high-stress environments, it’s easy to miss the manual save step.

  4. Having a simple option like:
    Auto-save transcript to: [file path]
    would solve this entirely and align with the behavior of auto-recording.


Suggested Implementation:

  • Checkbox setting: “Auto-save transcript at end of meeting”

  • Optional storage path: Select default folder for saved transcripts (similar to the setting for auto-recording storage).

  • Enable for hosts, co-hosts, and even participants (when allowed).

 

Pretty Please with All the Cherries on Top... I beg you.

7 replies

Ray_Harwood
Community Super Champion | Customer
Community Super Champion | Customer
Jul 18, 2025 9:17 PM UTC

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @swhitfield.

 

While I agree that options to save the transcript would be a nice addition, there is a work-around: You can have your transcript saved to the Zoom Cloud as a VTT file.  I use this to quickly locate what time during a meeting a specific topic was mentioned.

 

Go to Settings -> Recording -> General and set this:

You'll get a text file with something like this:

 

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Newcomer
Dec 1, 2025 10:20 PM UTC

I agree. This feature is needed. The above workaround does not solve the issue for automatic saving of the transcription.

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Newcomer
Dec 10, 2025 6:52 PM UTC

Wait, so even tho I've enabled transcripts I won't actually get one unless I take another step to save a transcript of a particular call???

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Newcomer
May 13, 2026 1:47 PM UTC

Auto saving to cloud is only available if you have the rights to set this. As I am part of a bigger company, this will not be changed. 
Reason 2 for needing this is to have my AI buddy (Claude Code) that runs locally understand what transpired in the meeting, understand that was decided and define next actions, integrate the information in existing docs I’m building, etc. 

As a first step, could you at least warn me to save my transcript first when I press the end meeting button, so I don’t lose the transcript every time I forget to click save first? 
 

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Newcomer
May 13, 2026 1:51 PM UTC

If the user pressed transcript this meeting, in what scenario would I not want to save this at the end of the meeting? I mean really?
It’s like pressing record meeting and then needing to click store at the end of the meeting, otherwise it’s thrown away.

Why this is not treated as a bug, I’m baffled. 

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New Member
Jun 15, 2026 4:28 PM UTC

This function is desperately needed! Just today, my internet glitched and I got kicked out of my zoom meeting. Since I didn’t plan for this and hit save transcript, it only captured what said after I was able to get back into the meeting.

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New Member
Aug 26, 2026 11:54 AM UTC

This is much needed, the fact that I have automations built into my day but still have to go into Zoom and download the transcript is incredibly frustrating. I would be happy to either have the ability to auto save them locally, or for the full transcript to come via email automatically. 

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