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February 3, 2022
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Recovering a Live Transcript after ending the Zoom meetintg: Is there any way to do this?

  • February 3, 2022
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I just hosted a Zoom in my graduate seminar at UCSB where we didn't record but had Live Transcript enabled. Usually I then save the live transcript but this time I ended the meeting without doing so. Is there any way to retrieve that?

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    Newcomer
    April 21, 2022

    Any answer to this?

     

    Newcomer
    May 30, 2022

    I don't see where *we*have to be responsible for saving the live transcript. I don't think this feature is working well at all. Enabled for all my meetings and webinars and nothing is showing up.

    Newcomer
    September 21, 2022

    At the end/bottom of the transcript window, it says "Save Transcript" which I often click on several times during the meeting in case I forget to click it before logging off. It gets saved as a .txt and I have managed to find it somehow. It will have the title of the Zoom. If you forget to save it, I don't think it saves at all. Hope this helps.

    Newcomer
    November 19, 2022

    Thank you for your suggestion.  I will do that from now on.  I had a new device and I couldn't find the Save Transcript tab.  It wasn't in it's usual place and then I got disconnected.  At least I took notes.  

    Newcomer
    November 19, 2022

    When you are on a new device you have to search for the SAVE TRANSCRIPT.  It is not an automatic pop-up after there is no speech for awhile.  I agree.  I don't know why we have to save it manually when we have already decided we want a transcript.  The feature does not work well.  My supervisor does not want an audio/video recording to be preserved.  

    Newcomer
    February 28, 2023

    It is very confusing.  I have tried multiple times to get a copy of the transcript, but it is never to be found.  It seems that the zoom vendor does not appreciate how complicated they have made this capability.  Looks like they would be interested in knowing what the users want.  

    Newcomer
    March 10, 2023

    Selecting transcript should trigger a saved file after the meeting, just like it does for recordings. Having to remember after a meeting, AND before ending when heading to another meeting is not user friendly nor practical in real-time. Transcripts are sometimes more essential to the meeting than the recordings to accessibility and for other uses following the meeting. Please make this adjustment ASAP.  

    Newcomer
    May 13, 2025

    I FULLY agree - when you trigger it it should save, just like Q&A saves as a 'report' without having to ask it to save. I lost an entire focus group transcript yesterday 😞 

    Newcomer
    April 21, 2023

    I just did the same and am waiting to find out if the other individual saved their transcript... but yes, this is ridiculous... if  one is enabling use of CC, and the transcript, it should be saved automatically and then if person does not want it, they can discard the transcript, but chances are, they will want it... I am working on a research paper and did exactly as you. In my haste to log off, I failed to save the transcript and here  I am... very frustrating. 

    Newcomer
    April 26, 2023

    I need the caption transcript for zoom meeting that just ended.  I forgot to save it and call ended. Is there any way to recover it?  

     

     

    Newcomer
    May 30, 2023

    I just want to add that transcripts did save automatically as of late 2021. Don't know why Zoom decided to change it but it is an issue.

    Newcomer
    June 17, 2023

    Have we figured out how to make this automatically save if CC is selected in settings. 

    It is extremely frustrating. 

     

    Newcomer
    January 26, 2024

    I was just in a meeting, for which I was not the host.  I enabled transcripts but did not record.  The host ended the meeting before I was able to click "save transcript" and the transcript was lost.  I've reached out to the host and they also did not record the meeting or save the transcript.

    There was a lot of action items lost to the ether.  😵

    Newcomer
    February 27, 2025

    This just happened to me, too. It would be really preferred if, after leaving the meeting, the Zoom app asked me if I want to save the transcript so that I can act if the meeting ended abruptly.

    Newcomer
    August 11, 2025

    I run into this issue at least a couple of times a week. I am relying on the transcripts to create meetingnotes for meetings hosted by others. first of all, its typically after the first important topic has been discussed when I realize I should have had transcripts turned on. this is already nonsense. I want this on by default. then typically the meeting is ended by the host and I did not come to save the transcript. a full meeting gone useless. I just can't understand how this was meant to work the way it does now.