- Transcript translation
- Built for Google Meet
Translate a Google Meet call into a transcript your team can read
MeetVoice writes the call down while it happens and translates every line into the language you picked, so the record is finished at the same moment the call is.
The trial gives you 30 minutes of live translation, no payment card required.
26 languages, any pair, chosen before you join.
The call this page was written for
You run a weekly build review with a contractor team in Madrid. Most of the call is in Spanish, the write-up goes to a stakeholder in Toronto who reads none of it, and somebody always ends up retyping the whole thing from memory afterwards. With MeetVoice that review is already written out in English by the time the call drops, line by line, with names and timestamps attached.
What this looks like during the call
Live transcript
ESENA translated, timestamped record of the call that you can export and forward the same day.
El proyecto piloto duró dos semanas más, así que las cifras finales solo llegan el jueves.
The pilot project ran two weeks longer, so the final numbers only land on Thursday.
Entonces movamos la revisión al viernes por la mañana. Hoy aviso al cliente.
Then let's move the review to Friday morning. I'll let the client know today.
Me sirve. Mándame el borrador la noche anterior, con el desglose de costes.
Works for me. Send me the draft the evening before, with the cost breakdown.
Action items
Built for Google Meet- Move the review to Friday morning
- Tell the client today that the numbers land Thursday
- Send the draft with the cost breakdown on Thursday evening
How to set it up
MeetVoice is a Chrome extension plus a companion desktop app. The extension reads the Google Meet tab you already have open and the desktop app coordinates the session from your machine, so no extra participant is added to the call.
Step 1Install the extension and the desktop app
Add MeetVoice from the Chrome Web Store, then install the companion desktop app for Windows or Apple Silicon macOS. The desktop app coordinates the session from your machine; speech is processed in transit and never stored, and the extension only reads the meeting tab.
Step 2Choose the spoken language and the record language
Open the MeetVoice panel before you join and pick the language people will speak in and the language you want the written record in. Any pair out of 26 languages works, and you can change it between calls.
Step 3Press Start, then export when the call ends
The transcript panel fills in as people talk. When the call is over, export the whole thing as PDF, SRT or plain text from the same panel — there is no separate processing step to wait for.
What usually goes wrong
- Whatever Google Meet shows you stays inside the call window: nothing is spoken back in the other language, and nothing is left to read once the call ends.
- Retyping a call from memory takes longer than the call did, and the specifics are the first thing to disappear.
- Forwarding a recording instead only moves the problem: the person who needs it has to sit through an hour in a language they do not read.
Why this holds up in a real call
- Translation runs on the live audio, so the record is finished when the call is, not hours later.
- Every line carries a speaker label and a timestamp, so a contested detail can be traced back to a point in the call.
- Export is a styled PDF, an SRT file for subtitle editors, or plain text, and the last 50 meetings stay in your history.
How the three options compare
What Google Meet does on its own
Google Meet will show captions during that review, but the caption track lives and dies inside the call window. Nothing is handed to you at the end, so what reaches Toronto is still whatever somebody managed to remember and retype.
Google Meet can show captions and, for a limited set of pairs, translated captions. They are read on screen while the call runs: nothing is spoken back in the other language and nothing is left as a file afterwards.
| What you are comparing | MeetVoice | Google Meet built-in captions | Notetaker bot that joins the call |
|---|---|---|---|
| Do you get a translated record you can keep? | Yes — a translated transcript you can export as PDF, SRT or plain text. | No — captions are shown during the call and are not offered as a file. | Often yes, but the file is produced on the vendor's servers rather than on your machine. |
| Who has to be in the call for it to work? | Only you. The other participants see the usual roster and nothing is added to it. | Nobody extra — captions are part of Google Meet itself. | An extra participant is visible to everyone, and in organizations where administrators restrict guest apps it may not be admitted at all. |
| When is the written record ready? | At the end of the call, because it is written during the call. | Never — there is no record to be ready. | After the call, once the vendor has finished processing it. |
| What does it cost to find out? | 30 minutes of live translation with no payment card, then plans from €9 per month. | Included in the Google Workspace plan your organization already pays for. | Varies by vendor; most publish a limited free tier and charge per seat above it. |
Questions people ask before installing
Does the transcript keep the original wording too?
This page is about the translated record, so by default you get one line per utterance in the language you chose. MeetVoice can also keep the spoken line and the translation next to each other if you would rather review both.
Can I translate a Google Meet recording I already have?
No. MeetVoice works on live audio while the call is running, so it has to be switched on before people start talking. There is no upload step for an existing file.
How reliable are the speaker labels?
Lines are labelled with the speaker MeetVoice heard. Overlapping speech and shared conference-room microphones can put a line under the wrong name, so treat the labels as a strong hint rather than a formal record of who said what.
Is the audio of my call kept anywhere?
No. Audio is processed in transit and is not stored on our side. What lands in your history is text, and it stays on your own computer.
Turn what was said in one language into a written record the rest of your team can actually read.
The trial gives you 30 minutes of live translation, no payment card required.
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