What is the best way to transcribe a meeting?

The best way to transcribe a meeting is to record it with everyone's consent and run the audio through an AI transcription tool. That produces searchable text in minutes, against roughly four hours of human typing per hour of audio.

You can transcribe a meeting from your phone: set it to record on the table for in-person meetings, or capture system audio for calls. Built-in options like Teams transcription work when the license and admin settings cooperate, which is exactly when they usually do not.

Quality hinges on the microphone more than the software. Get the recorder close to the speakers, and the transcript improves more than any settings change.

A meeting transcription app handles the capture and the cleanup in one place.