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4 pointsnduncan_hmc9mo ago5 comments

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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.

lirimkon9mo ago

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.

nduncan_hmcOP9mo ago

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/

bosky1019mo ago

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?

nduncan_hmcOP9mo ago

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...

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nduncan_hmcOP9mo ago

It's surprisingly hard to get transcripts and recordings out of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet meetings.

lirimkon9mo ago

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.

nduncan_hmcOP9mo ago

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/

bosky1019mo ago

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?

nduncan_hmcOP9mo ago

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...

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