Engineering notes on meeting bots, transcription and the infrastructure behind them.
Google Meet now sorts join requests into a verified queue and a high-risk one. Data-center bots land in the second. Here is how we sign bots into a real Workspace account using SAML, and how to set it up.
Teams holds anonymous joiners in the lobby and increasingly gates them behind a captcha. Signing the bot into a real Microsoft 365 account removes both. Here is the API, the tenant setup, and why Teams works differently from Meet.
Gladia, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Speechmatics, Soniox and ElevenLabs, selected per bot, with your own API key, your own region, and full pass-through of every provider-specific option.
Recall.ai, Meeting BaaS, Skribby, MeetStream, Attendee and Vexa compared on pricing, platforms, streaming and deployment — with the tradeoffs each vendor won't tell you about themselves.
The architecture behind every AI meeting assistant: a meeting bot records the call, webhooks deliver the transcript, an LLM writes the summary. Here's the whole pipeline with code.
Stream live transcripts out of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with ElevenLabs Scribe v2 Realtime (~150ms latency): a bot joins the call, your WebSocket receives text as people speak.
Use your own speech-to-text provider on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings: one bot API records the call, your provider transcribes it. Setup, code and pricing for every supported provider.
Record and transcribe Google Meet calls from your backend with one API call — no Google Workspace admin setup, no Chrome extensions. Bot joins, records, and webhooks deliver the transcript.
Feed Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings into AssemblyAI: a bot captures the call, AssemblyAI transcribes with speaker labels and language detection, and you get AssemblyAI-native JSON by webhook.
Pipe Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings into Deepgram: a bot records the call, Nova-3 transcribes it with your models and keyterms, and you get Deepgram-native JSON by webhook.
Capture Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings and transcribe them with Soniox's multilingual, language-switching speech recognition — one bot request, Soniox-native output by webhook.
Route Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings through Speechmatics: a bot records the call, Speechmatics' enhanced model transcribes it with speaker diarization, delivered by webhook.
Zoom's Realtime Media Streams delivers meeting audio, video and transcripts over WebSockets without a bot in the room. Here's how RTMS actually compares to meeting bots — and why you'll likely run both.
Zoom is requiring OBF tokens for Meeting SDK apps joining external meetings starting March 2, 2026. We break down what this means and how to prepare.
Discover how Meeting BaaS's Meeting Transcription API can transform your Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams meetings into searchable, actionable text. Learn about our 100+ language support, speaker diarization, and real-time processing capabilities.
