Meeting summary generator
Meetings Brief's meeting summary generator turns your notes or a meeting transcript into a short summary: decisions, action items with owners, open questions and next steps. Paste the text, or drop the .vtt, .srt or .txt file your meeting tool saved. Long transcripts work too: they are read in sections. It is free, with no account.
Or drop a .vtt, .srt or .txt transcript file here.
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Add the meeting name, date and who was there (optional)
The same text can also make meeting minutes or a follow-up email. Your text goes with you.
Your summary will appear here.
Paste your notes or drop a transcript file, choose the options, then press “Write the summary”.
At a glance
As of 7 Oct 2026.
- Goes in
- Notes you paste, or a transcript file: .vtt, .srt or .txt
- Comes out
- A bullet summary, a quick recap, the action items only, or a founder view
- Owners
- Taken from speaker names in the file or names in your notes; otherwise “Unassigned”
- Length
- Up to 400,000 characters. Over about 8,000, the text is read in sections and takes longer
- Cost
- Free. No account, no paywall, no credit card
- Your text
- Sent to an online AI service to write the summary; not used to train AI models
What it does not do
- It does not listen to audio. For a recording, use audio to text first and review its processing choice: Online sends audio to the provider named before upload (Cloudflare Workers AI or Groq); On this device keeps recognition local.
- It does not tell voices apart. Names come only from your text or your file.
- It keeps no history: copy or download the summary before you leave.
- It does not write formal minutes or the email after the meeting: the meeting minutes generator and the follow-up email generator do.
Want the notes written for you next time? Live meeting notes writes the transcript during the meeting and gives you the brief when you stop. Tell the people in the meeting first.
Try live meeting notes →Getting a summary you can actually send
Which kind of summary to choose
Bullet summary is the default, and the right choice when you are writing for people who were in the room: decisions, action items, open questions and next steps, with nothing that retells a discussion they already sat through.
Quick recap is three to five sentences for a chat message or a status update. Action items only keeps who owes what by when and nothing else, the right format for a standup or a project tracker. Founder view puts the same notes as risks, opportunities, decisions and the one thing to watch.
You can run the same notes through several kinds. For the formal record, use the meeting minutes generator; for the email to send afterwards, the follow-up email generator. The links under the button take your text with them.
Works with the transcript you already have
- Microsoft Teams: the meeting organizer can download the transcript as a .docx or .vtt file, and it includes each speaker's name (Microsoft support, checked 7 Oct 2026). Download the .vtt and drop it here: each line keeps its speaker.
- Zoom: the transcript of a cloud recording is saved as a separate VTT file (Zoom support, checked 7 Oct 2026). Drop that file here.
- Google Meet: transcripts are saved in the meeting organizer's Google Drive (Google Meet help, checked 7 Oct 2026). Open the transcript, copy the text and paste it in.
- No transcript, only a recording? Turn it into text with audio to text, which runs in your browser so the audio is not uploaded, then paste the transcript here.
There are step-by-step guides for getting a transcript out of Google Meet, Zoom and Teams.
What to paste in
Messy notes work. Fragments, half-sentences, arrows and shorthand are all fine; that is the normal input, not a poor one. A full transcript works too, and so do the two together.
The one thing worth adding is who was there. Action items need owners, and a task cannot be given to a name that appears nowhere. Type the names under “Add the meeting name, date and who was there”, or start your notes with a line naming them. A transcript file that names each speaker does this for you.
Deadlines work the same way. “Priya to send the scope Friday” gives a usable action item; “send the scope soon” gives one nobody can check.
Why a summary comes back vague
Check the notes for three possible causes. The notes recorded what was discussed rather than what was decided, so there is nothing definite to pull out. The notes are very short, and four lines cannot make a summary without padding. Or several meetings were pasted in at once, and the summary blends them: run them one at a time.
Always read the action items before you send them. A task can end up with the wrong person when two names appear close together, and that is the mistake that is costly to find a week later.
Long meetings
Up to about 8,000 characters, roughly 1,300 words, is summarized in one go. A longer text goes to the engine that writes Meetings Brief's meeting briefs. It splits the text into sections at paragraph and sentence breaks, notes the decisions, commitments, open questions and names in each, and then writes the summary from those notes. That takes longer, so keep the page open while it works. The most it takes is 400,000 characters.
What happens to what you paste
The text is sent to an online AI service to write the summary, and it is not used to train AI models. This page has no account and keeps no history, so copy or download the summary before you leave. For a long text, the finished summary is held in private Supabase storage temporarily so this page can retrieve it again if a response is interrupted. It becomes eligible for daily cleanup after one day, normally completing within two days; outages can delay removal. Reading the result does not delete that temporary copy. The details are in section 4 of the privacy policy.
If the notes are too sensitive to send to an AI service at all, do not paste them here.
Questions people ask
Is the meeting summary generator free?
Yes. There is no account, no paywall and no credit card. There is a daily limit per browser so the service stays available to everyone.
Can it summarize a whole meeting transcript?
Yes. Paste it or drop the file. Text up to about 8,000 characters is summarized in one go. Longer text, up to 400,000 characters, is read in sections first, so it takes longer.
Which files can I drop in?
Transcript files ending in .vtt, .srt or .txt. The file is read in your browser and its text is put in the box, with the speaker names kept. Word (.docx) files cannot be read yet: download the .vtt version instead, or copy the text in.
Will it name owners and due dates?
Only the ones in your text. In a transcript file that names each speaker, someone who says “I will send it” becomes the owner. A task with no name is marked Unassigned, and the summary is told never to guess one. Read the action items before you share them.
Which language will the summary be in?
It is asked to write in the language of your notes. Check it before you use it.
Are my notes saved or used for training?
This page has no account and keeps no history. The text is sent to an online AI service to write the summary and is not used to train AI models. Copy or download the summary before you leave. For long input, the finished result is temporarily held in private server storage. It becomes eligible for daily cleanup after one day, normally within two days; outages can delay removal.
Can I get meeting minutes or a follow-up email instead?
Yes. The meeting minutes generator writes company or board minutes, and the follow-up email generator writes the email for the people who were there, someone who missed it, or a client. The links under the button take your text with them.
Can I share the summary?
Copy it, download it as a text file, or copy a share link. The summary travels inside the link itself, after the # sign, a part of a link that browsers do not send to any server.
Can I summarize a recording?
Not on this page. Turn the recording into text with audio to text first, then paste the transcript here. Review that tool's processing choice: Online uploads audio for transcription; On this device keeps recognition local. Generating the summary is a separate online step that sends the transcript text to an AI service.