Auto-Generate Minutes from Zoom & Teams Recordings

You hit “record” on the online meeting — but the recording just piles up, never watched again. Sound familiar?

I’m Naohiro Hayashi, creator of Soreda!. Now that remote meetings are routine, I keep hearing the same thing: the recordings keep growing, but nobody puts them to use. Here’s the good news — that recording can become minutes with nothing more than an upload. This article lays out how to turn a Zoom or Teams recording into minutes automatically, for readers who aren’t AI specialists.

Are your recordings actually working for you?

Having the recording is the easy part. The question is what happens next.

Recorded, but never reviewed

Almost no one sits through a one-hour meeting a second time. So the recording sits in the cloud or on a laptop, untouched. A perfectly good record never becomes an asset — it just eats up storage.

Writing minutes by hand is still work

“I’ll turn it into minutes later” sounds fine, but replaying the recording while you pick out the key points takes as much effort as taking notes live. With all the rewinding and fast-forwarding, it can take even longer. A recording on its own doesn’t lighten the load.

Getting your Zoom and Teams recordings ready

The first step is simply having the recording file on hand. Nothing complicated here.

Getting the file out of Zoom

Zoom saves either a local recording on your computer or a cloud recording. Either way, download the saved file so it’s on hand, and you’re set.

Getting the file out of Teams

Teams also stores a recording after the meeting, and you can retrieve the file from there. The exact save locations and steps shift with each service’s updates, so check the official guidance for the current path. The one thing to remember is this: as long as you can get the recording file onto your device, you’re ready.

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Turning a recording into minutes

Once the recording is ready, the rest is on Soreda!. Three steps.

Upload the audio or video file

Upload the recording — audio or video, either works. It handles up to 45 minutes per upload, which covers a typical online meeting as-is. Split a longer meeting and upload it in parts.

AI transcribes, then builds the minutes and next steps

On upload, the AI transcribes the content, shapes it into readable minutes, and extracts the decisions and next steps — the concrete tasks and preparation each person owns. Online meetings tend to have people speak one at a time, which pairs well with speaker separation, so you get a record where it’s clear who said what. If your calls are full of product names or internal shorthand, registering them in the custom dictionary keeps those terms accurate too.

Review and share with the team

Check the finished minutes and share them with the people who need them. When you update the content, version history keeps a trail, so there’s never any confusion over which version is the latest. Bringing in a colleague who missed the meeting takes a single step.

What automating online minutes actually gets you

Change the workflow and the payoff goes well beyond saving a little time.

Share right after the meeting, and tasks start moving

When the decisions and next steps land with everyone right after the call, people can act from that moment. The stall — where momentum fades while everyone waits on the minutes — disappears. For remote teams spread across locations, that same-day clarity is often the difference between a task starting now and slipping a week.

No more dead recordings

Recordings that used to pile up unused become something usable: minutes. Because the text is searchable, you can find a decision from three weeks ago in seconds instead of scrubbing through an hour of video. Past meetings accumulate into a record the whole team can draw on, and your recordings shift from a storage burden to a genuine asset.

FAQ

Q. Can it use any Zoom or Teams recording format? A. It supports both audio and video. A standard recording file uploads as-is.

Q. What about cloud recordings? A. No problem. Download the recording from the cloud, have the file on hand, and upload it.

Q. Does it work for long online meetings? A. Up to 45 minutes per upload. Split anything longer and upload in parts.

Q. Can it tell who’s speaking? A. Yes — speaker separation organizes the minutes by speaker.

A recording, at the moment you capture it, is just a record. It only becomes an asset that drives the next piece of work once it’s turned into minutes. If you’ve got recordings stacking up, upload one and watch the change.

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