Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by nduncan_hmc » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 3:58 PM UTC

Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings
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Re: Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by nduncan_hmc » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 3:58 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by lirimkon » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by nduncan_hmc » Mon, Jun 09, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

lirimkon wrote: post #3

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.

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.

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/

Re: Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by bosky101 » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 4:10 AM UTC

Very impressive that you were able to pull this off. And kudos for open sourcing it.

Q: is it possible to have the bot speak?

Re: Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings

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Post by nduncan_hmc » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 4:50 AM UTC

bosky101 wrote: post #5

Very impressive that you were able to pull this off. And kudos for open sourcing it. Q: is it possible to have the bot speak?

Yep, see these endpoints: https://docs.attendee.dev/api-reference#tag/bots/POST/api/v1... https://docs.attendee.dev/api-reference#tag/bots/POST/api/v1...