To record and transcribe a Google Meet automatically: invite Oak Bot to the Meet call. It joins as a participant, captures the conversation live, and when the meeting ends it uploads the transcript and a structured summary to your Oak account — no local recording, no file to find, no manual upload. Live Meeting Integration is in beta.
Google Meet has a built-in recording feature, but it leaves you with a video file you still have to transcribe and summarise. A meeting bot skips that round trip: instead of recording the call and processing it later, you invite Oak Bot into the meeting and the finished, structured notes are waiting in your account the moment everyone hangs up.
Key takeaways
- Invite, don't record. Add Oak Bot to the Meet call instead of running Google's recorder and processing the file afterwards.
- The bot is a visible participant. It appears in the Meet attendee list, so everyone can see the call is being captured.
- Notes upload automatically. The transcript and structured summary land in your Oak account when the meeting ends.
- Bilingual calls are handled. Cantonese–English code-switching is transcribed with the same accuracy as an uploaded recording.
How to record a Google Meet with Oak Bot
- Add Oak Bot to the Meet call. Invite the bot to a scheduled Google Meet, or bring it into a meeting that’s already in progress from your Oak account.
- Let the bot join. Oak Bot enters the call and appears in the participant list with a clear label, so everyone present knows the meeting is being captured.
- Hold your meeting as normal. The bot transcribes the conversation live — including bilingual and code-switched discussion — and tracks who said what.
- Collect the notes after the call. When the meeting ends, the transcript and a structured summary with action items upload to your Oak account automatically. Nothing to export.
Oak Bot vs. Google Gemini notes for bilingual calls
Gemini can now take notes in Google Meet and drop a summary into Drive, so the question is no longer notes versus no notes — it is whether those notes hold up on a Hong Kong call. Two gaps decide it. The first is accuracy: Meet’s transcription handles Cantonese–English code-switching poorly, and since a Gemini summary is only as reliable as the transcript underneath it, those errors carry straight through. Oak’s structured summary sits on top of Cantonese-first, code-switch-aware transcription built for that mix. The second is fragmentation: Gemini’s notes live in Drive, Zoom’s in Zoom, Teams’ in Microsoft — so a team on multiple platforms ends up with three formats in three places. Oak Bot produces one consistent, decision-grade output — persistent speaker labels, topic-grouped details, and action items with owners and ETAs — in a single searchable archive whichever platform the call ran on. The broader trade-off between bots and native notes is covered in the Live Meeting Integration guide.
Where this shows up
In Oak for Customer Success Meetings, where multilingual support calls on Google Meet become searchable records agents can hand off cleanly between shifts.
Live Meeting Integration
Invite Oak Bot to Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams — currently in beta.
What you get after the meeting
The output is identical to Oak’s upload workflow, because once the audio reaches the engine the path is the same. You get a full transcript with speaker labels, and a structured summary with Meeting Overview, Attendees, topic-grouped Meeting Details, and Action Items with owners and ETAs. Every action item links back to its moment in the transcript, so context is one click away. If you want to understand how that summary is built, see the AI meeting summaries guide.
Frequently asked questions
How do I record a Google Meet automatically?
Invite Oak Bot to the Google Meet call. It joins as a participant, captures the conversation live, and uploads the transcript and a structured summary to your Oak account when the meeting ends — without running Google's own recorder or processing a file afterwards.
Do I need Google Meet's recording turned on?
No. Oak Bot captures the meeting itself by joining as a participant, so you don't need Google's native recording. You invite the bot instead of pressing record.
Will other people see that the meeting is being recorded?
Yes. Oak Bot joins as a labelled participant in the Meet attendee list, so everyone in the call can see it is present and capturing the conversation.
Does it transcribe Cantonese and English in the same Meet call?
Yes. A bot-captured Google Meet is transcribed with the same multilingual accuracy as an uploaded recording, including Cantonese–English code-switching. See the code-switching guide.
Where do the notes go after the Meet ends?
The transcript and structured summary upload to your Oak account automatically when the meeting ends. There is no file to export or upload manually.