It's surprisingly hard to get transcripts and recordings out of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet meetings.
The only API that had the features I needed (Recall.ai), charges $1000 / month minimum, so I decided to build my own. We're now processing thousands of hours of meetings each month and it works reliably. We also have a few features that let the bot interact with people in the meeting, in addition to recording it.
lirimkon · 3h ago
Nice take. It’s indeed very difficult to build the entire infrastructure around this, nice that you open-sourced it
Recall is pretty good, but it’s clearly the number one out there and is kind of “taking advantage” of that
I’ve noticed some other APIs popping up that aren’t open source but are more affordable and reliable, like Skribby (meeting bot API) and MeetingBaaS.
nduncan_hmc · 3h ago
Agreed, it's gotten better since I started working on this 6 months ago. At that time, it was only Recall and MeetingBaaS and the latter didn't work when I tried to use it.
The only API that had the features I needed (Recall.ai), charges $1000 / month minimum, so I decided to build my own. We're now processing thousands of hours of meetings each month and it works reliably. We also have a few features that let the bot interact with people in the meeting, in addition to recording it.
Recall is pretty good, but it’s clearly the number one out there and is kind of “taking advantage” of that
I’ve noticed some other APIs popping up that aren’t open source but are more affordable and reliable, like Skribby (meeting bot API) and MeetingBaaS.
I expect Recall to open up a bit more, since a much larger company (Nylas) is moving into their turf: https://www.nylas.com/products/notetaker-api/