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transcribe Zoom
Transcribe Zoom calls, host or not.
Zoom’s own transcript needs a paid plan, and the host decides who gets it. nchova transcribes any Zoom call from your Mac: your microphone as you, the call’s audio as everyone else. No bot joins, the audio never leaves your Mac, and the notes are written when you hang up.
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In short
- Any Zoom call
- yours or someone else’s, on a free plan or a paid one: if you can hear it, nchova can transcribe it.
- No bot
- nobody joins the meeting. nchova listens from your Mac, in the Zoom app or in the browser.
- Free
- transcripts and notes with Apple’s models are free; Pro adds the voices told apart, Parakeet and better notes.
What Zoom gives you, and who decides
Since May 2026 Zoom no longer lets you save live captions once a meeting ends. Its meeting transcript needs a Pro, Business or Enterprise account, stays off until a host or an admin turns it on, and a participant can only ask the host to start it. The transcript of a cloud recording needs a paid plan with cloud recording on. AI Companion’s summary is started by the host or a co-host, and everyone sees its icon light up.
So when you are not the host, or the host is on Zoom’s free plan, you usually leave with no transcript at all. nchova does not ask Zoom for anything: it transcribes what your Mac plays and what your microphone hears.
Zoom’s tools do one thing nchova does not: a transcript that belongs to the meeting and can be shared with everyone in it. nchova’s belongs to you.
A bot in the call, or nobody
Notetaker bots get a transcript by joining the meeting as a guest. nchova needs no seat in the call.
Transcribe your next Zoom call
- Download nchova and open it. In the setup, under For meetings, connect the Calendar to name meetings after their events, and press Ask now next to System audio: that is how nchova hears the others.
- Join your Zoom call as usual, in the Zoom app or in the browser.
- When nchova asks, click Transcribe. Click the pill at the bottom of the screen to watch the transcript, or to jot your own notes.
- Hang up. nchova notices the call has ended, writes the notes, and keeps the meeting in Meetings (Fn+M).
When you hang up
The notes are written around what you jotted down. Then ask the meeting: what did we decide, what do I have to do, write the follow-up.
Questions about Zoom
- 00:00:04 You Does Zoom tell the others that nchova is transcribing?
- 00:00:09 nchova No: nchova is not in the meeting, so Zoom has nothing to show. Where the law asks you to, tell the people in the call that you are transcribing.
- 00:00:27 You Do I need to be the host, or a paid Zoom plan?
- 00:00:32 nchova No. nchova transcribes any call you are in, whatever the plan and whoever the host.
- 00:00:50 You Does it work with Zoom in the browser?
- 00:00:55 nchova Yes. nchova tells a Zoom meeting from other tabs that use the microphone by the window’s title, and asks.
- 00:01:13 You With headphones or without?
- 00:01:18 nchova Either. Without headphones, nchova takes the loudspeakers’ echo out of your microphone by itself, without touching what Zoom sends.
- 00:01:36 You Can it start by itself?
- 00:01:41 nchova Yes: in Settings › Meetings, set When a call starts to Start transcribing by itself.
- 00:01:59 You Can I ask Claude about my Zoom calls?
- 00:02:04 nchova Yes: nchova’s MCP server runs on your Mac and connects with one click. See meetings in your assistant.
Checked on 8 October 2026: Saving captions ends · Meeting transcripts · Cloud recording transcripts · AI Companion meeting summary · AI Companion notice