Meeting minutes from a transcript: paste the text, get the document
A transcript exists, the minutes do not — the most common state of a meeting an hour after it ends. Paste the transcript from Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any recorder, and a minute later you have decisions, action items with owners and dates, and open questions — with quotes that let you verify every line.
Free · two documents a day · nothing is stored
DecisionLaunch moves to Thursday
- Reason
The deck will not be ready by Tuesday
12:04 - Task
Maria — update the deck by Wednesday
12:07
OpenWho takes the wording to legal
- Positions
Ivan — product; Olga — legal handles it
12:09
The tool
Paste the transcript
Any text of a conversation works: with speaker names or without, with timestamps or without. The fuller the transcript, the more precise the minutes. The limit is 12,000 characters — roughly 20–30 minutes of speech; split a longer meeting in two.
What you get
Five sections written for the people who were not in the room
The structure is the one from our guide to meeting minutes: decisions first, then action items, then what was left open. The order is not cosmetic — a task without a decision has no basis, and a dispute buried among decisions resurfaces later as “but we agreed”.
- 1–2 Context and decisions Why the meeting happened, in a sentence or two. Every decision comes with the reason that was voiced and with the person who made it, when the text shows one.
- 3 Action items: what, who, when A table. Names and dates are exactly the ones spoken. If no date was named, the cell holds a dash rather than an invented Friday.
- 4–5 Open questions and quotes What was discussed but not settled, with each side’s position. Then two to four verbatim lines behind the main decisions, so you can verify the document in a minute.
Where the transcript comes from
Most meetings already have a transcript — nobody opens it
Zoom keeps a transcript when the host records to the cloud; the file sits next to the recording. Google Meet writes transcripts to Google Docs on paid Workspace plans. Microsoft Teams stores them with the recording in OneDrive. A phone recorder plus any speech-to-text service gives you text without names — the tool copes with that too, the task table just has fewer owners.
If there is no transcript at all, Whisperer’s live transcription writes one during the call, with no bot in the participant list — and the minutes are then built automatically, nothing to paste.
Limits
What the tool does not do
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First
It does not store your text
The transcript lives exactly as long as one request to the model and is written nowhere: you have no account, so there is no consent to store anything. Close the page and the minutes are gone with it — copy them right away.
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Second
Two documents a day, 12,000 characters each
Enough to test the tool on your own meetings. A third meeting in a day is work, and in the product it is done without pasting: the minutes are built after every session on their own.
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Third
It does not replace a human check
The model does not invent decisions — the instructions forbid it — but it can confuse which of two speakers said what when the text has no names. The quotes section exists precisely for that check.
Questions
What people ask before pasting
Where does my transcript go?
To the model, and only for the duration of one request. It is not saved on Whisperer’s servers, not written to any database and not used for training. If a conversation is confidential enough that no external model may see it, do not use this tool — or any other AI service.
How is this different from minutes inside Whisperer?
There you paste nothing: Whisperer listens to the meeting itself and builds the breakdown afterwards — decisions, tasks and open questions tied to the minute they were spoken. Tasks go to the tracker, and answers can be searched across all meetings. Here it is the same document logic, applied to text you brought yourself.
Which language will the minutes be in?
The language of the transcript. An English meeting gives English minutes; a mixed one uses the language that dominates the text.
Can I paste notes instead of a verbatim transcript?
You can, but the minutes will be exactly as accurate as the notes. A verbatim transcript is better: the model takes its quotes from it, and the quotes are how you verify the document.
The next meeting does not need to be transcribed by hand
Run Whisperer on your next call: the transcript is written as the conversation goes, and the same minutes are waiting afterwards — nothing to paste, no two-document limit.