Hark guides
Meeting recording and transcription guides
Step-by-step guides to recording Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls, transcribing audio, and taking better meeting notes.
Most meetings now happen on Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, and each one handles recording and transcripts differently: who is allowed to record, which plans include transcripts, where the files end up and how long they are kept.
These guides walk through the built-in options step by step first, so they're useful whatever tools you use. Then they show where a desktop recorder like Hark fits: recording any app from your own computer, transcribing on the computer, and labelling who said what. You'll also find guides to turning audio and video files into text, taking better meeting notes and minutes, and the legal side of recording other people.
- AI note takers without a bot Take AI meeting notes without a bot joining the call.
- Convert M4A to text Transcribe M4A files from Voice Memos and QuickTime.
- Google Meet transcription Meet's built-in transcripts and the alternatives.
- How to record a Teams meeting Recording in Microsoft Teams, licenses, and where files go.
- How to record a Zoom meeting Zoom's local and cloud recording, and recording when you're not the host.
- How to record computer audio Record the sound your computer plays on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- How to record Google Meet Which plans can record Meet, and options on a free account.
- How to take meeting minutes What to capture before, during and after a meeting.
- How to take notes in a meeting Practical note-taking methods for meetings.
- How to transcribe a Teams meeting Teams transcription and other ways to transcribe a Teams call.
- How to transcribe a Zoom meeting Zoom's transcripts and other ways to get a transcript.
- How to transcribe an interview Record, transcribe and check interviews, step by step.
- Is it illegal to record someone without permission? When recording a conversation is legal, and when it is not.
- Is Otter.ai safe? How Otter handles your data and what to ask any note taker.
- Local AI transcription How on-device speech recognition works, and the trade-offs.
- MP3 to text Convert MP3 audio into a transcript.
- Record internal audio on a Mac The ways to capture system audio on macOS, honestly compared.
- Recording consent laws by state One-party and all-party consent rules for all 50 states, with citations.
- Speaker labels in transcription How speaker diarization works and how to fix wrong labels.
- Transcribe an audio recording to text Every realistic way to turn a recording into text.
- Transcribe MP4 to text Get a transcript from an MP4 video file.
- Transcribe voice memos Turn iPhone and Mac voice memos into text.
- Voice recorders with transcription Apps that record and transcribe, on phone and computer.
Record, transcribe and remember every meeting
Hark records your calls on your own computer, transcribes them privately, and learns who is speaking. Free forever, with a 2-day preview of AI meeting notes.