How to Generate Meeting Minutes from a Zoom or Teams Recording

Every conferencing tool records the call. Almost nobody watches the recording. Meeting minutes generated from that file, after the meeting, give you the decisions and the tasks without inviting a transcription bot into the room. Here is the workflow.

1 min read4 stepsUpdated September 3, 2026
  1. Find the recording

    Zoom saves to the cloud or to a local folder as MP4 or M4A; Teams keeps recordings in OneDrive or the channel's Files tab; Google Meet saves to Drive. Download the audio or the video - NoteBase uses the audio track either way.

  2. Upload it on the Meeting Summarizer page

    Drop the file into the upload box, choose the language the minutes should be in, and pick the meeting template. The meeting notes generator transcribes the call with speaker tags, then writes the minutes from the transcript.

    • Executive summary of the whole call on top
    • Key decisions, as they were stated
    • Action items with an owner and a deadline each
    • A searchable transcript with timestamps underneath
  3. Review before you share

    Read the decisions against your memory of the call and click into the transcript where one looks off - the timestamp takes you to the moment. Owners the AI could not hear are listed without a name so they do not disappear; assign those by hand.

  4. Share the minutes

    Send the note to Notion so it lands in the team's meeting database with the headings intact, export it as PDF for the thread, or ask the AI chat a question about the call a week later when someone disputes what was agreed.

The tool this guide uses

AI Meeting Summarizer

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Questions about this guide

Does anything join the call?

No. You record or download the call yourself and upload the file afterwards; nothing appears in the invite and nobody has to be told a bot is present.

Can I use the recording from my phone instead?

Yes. A meeting recorded on a phone in the room - or with NoteBase's own recorder - is summarized exactly the same way.

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