Disclaimer

Recording and consent laws vary

Laws about recording conversations differ from one state, province, and country to the next. Some places allow one participant to consent on behalf of the conversation, others require everyone to agree, and which rule applies can depend on where each person was at the time rather than where you were. Cross-border calls complicate it further.

You are solely responsible for making sure you have the consent and the legal right to record and transcribe any audio you use here. MeetingScribe converts audio you already have; it has no way to know how a recording was obtained and does not verify it.

Nothing here is legal advice

The guides on this site, including our overview of recording law, are general background written for a general audience. They are not legal advice, they are not a substitute for it, and they may be out of date or wrong for your situation. Using this site creates no professional relationship of any kind.

If you are unsure whether you may record or transcribe a particular conversation, ask a qualified lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction.

Transcription is not perfect

Automatic transcription makes mistakes, particularly with accents, background noise, crosstalk, distant microphones, and technical or proper nouns. Numbers, names, and negations are the errors most likely to matter and least likely to look wrong on the page: a dropped "not" reads perfectly naturally and inverts a sentence.

Speaker labels are best effort. They tell voices apart within one recording and can merge two people or split one, especially in crowded or overlapping conversation.

Review and correct any transcript before relying on it, and verify a passage against the audio before quoting it. Do not treat a machine transcript as a record of what was said without checking it.

Not a certified transcript

What this produces is a working transcript. It is not a certified or verbatim transcript, and it is not a substitute for a court reporter or a professional transcriptionist where the rules require one. Anything intended for a court record, a regulatory filing, or a formal proceeding needs the certified route.

No professional advice

MeetingScribe turns audio into text. It does not provide legal, medical, financial, clinical, or other professional advice, and nothing produced by it should be treated as such. If you use it in a professional setting, your own regulatory, record-keeping, and confidentiality obligations continue to apply in full and are yours to meet.

Privacy claims are about design, not certification

We say the tool is designed for confidential workflows because your audio is processed on your device and never transmitted, and how it works shows you how to verify that yourself. That is a statement about how the software is built. It is not a claim to HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, or any other certification, we offer no business associate agreement or data processing agreement, and it does not by itself make any particular use of the tool compliant with rules that apply to you.

Availability

The service is free and provided as is. It may be unavailable, change, or be discontinued without notice. Keep your own copies of anything you need, and do not rely on this site as your only route to a transcript on a deadline.

Questions

If something here is unclear, or you think a guide on this site is wrong, tell us at hello@meetingscribe.net. We would rather correct it.