Google Meet already writes the transcript. 1Presence just reads it.

Google Meet makes the transcript. You just have to let 1Presence read it.

When transcription is switched on in a Google Meet call, Google writes a full, speaker-attributed transcript and keeps it for you. 1Presence reads that transcript afterwards and files it in your vault as notes and a summary — no recorder joins the call, and it costs nothing. The one thing that varies is how 1Presence reads it, and that comes down to the account hosting the meeting. A company Google Workspace account is read through your Google connection; a personal account on the paid Gemini plan saves the transcript to your Drive, and 1Presence reads it there. Same result, different switch — and this page walks both.

It is the host's account that decides whether a free transcript exists at all, and which connection brings it in. There are three cases, and the first thing to do is find yours:

The dividing line is simple: a company Workspace (Business Standard or higher) and a personal account on Google One AI Premium both get a real transcript for free — they just reach 1Presence by different connections. A free Gmail account or a Business Starter Workspace makes no transcript Google will hand to an app, so those calls use the Meeting Recorder instead, and that path is just as good — it simply joins the call to capture it.

Meet transcription is a standard feature on the right plans — you do not need any add-on for the plain transcript 1Presence reads. These are the accounts that produce one:

What is left out: free Gmail and Business Starter — neither can produce a transcript at all (on Business Starter the transcription and recording controls aren't merely off, they're absent, because the edition doesn't include the feature). Those accounts use the recorder. Automatic transcription — where every meeting starts its own without anyone pressing a button — needs Business Plus or higher; on Business Standard someone just starts it in the call.

Not sure which edition a Workspace is on? An admin can confirm it under Admin console → Billing → Subscriptions. A quick tell from inside a call: if you see "Recording unavailable" or "you're not allowed to record", that is usually either an admin toggle left off (fixable — chapter 3) or a Business Starter edition that has no transcription to switch on (then it's the recorder, or an upgrade).

Meet only writes a transcript when someone starts it — there is nothing to read for a call where transcription was off. On a personal account that's a single step in the call. On a company Workspace there are two layers: an admin allows it once for the organisation, then anyone starts it in the call itself.

1. 1

   Workspace admin: allow transcripts (one-time)

   In the Admin console → Apps → Google Workspace → Google Meet → Meet video settings, turn Meeting transcripts on. (Recording is a separate toggle and is not needed — 1Presence only reads the transcript.) Changes can take up to ~24 hours to take effect. Google's reference: Turn meeting transcription on or off. On a personal Google One AI Premium account there is no admin and no console step — skip straight to the next one.

2. 2

   In the call: start the transcript

   During the meeting, open Activities → Transcripts → Start transcription (on a personal account, "Take notes with Gemini" does the same). Google writes the transcript live and files the finished one for you when the call ends — in the host's Drive, under a "Meet Recordings" folder.

3. 3

   Tip: make it automatic

   So no one has to remember, a Business Plus or higher Workspace can have transcription start by default for every meeting (set by the admin, or by the organiser for their own calls). Then the transcript is always there for 1Presence to read.

Recording and transcription are separate switches — 1Presence only needs the transcript, so you don't have to record the call to get your notes. (For the video file itself, that is the recorder's job.)

Here is the one part that is specific to Google Meet, and it's genuinely the only fork to get right. The transcript lives in a different place depending on the account — so a company Workspace and a personal account connect different Google services. Pick the row that matches you and connect that one; 1Presence works out the rest.

Unlike some platforms, there is no PowerShell, no app-access policy and no developer setup for Google Meet — for a Workspace it's the admin toggle in chapter 3 plus connecting Google Calendar; for a personal account it's just starting the transcript and connecting Google Drive. Connect once, and every transcribed Meet call flows in on its own.

With transcription on and the right Google service connected, you never touch a settings page again — you talk, and it happens:

One thing 1Presence can't do for Meet: browse past calls you never transcribed. Google only keeps a transcript for meetings where someone turned it on — so for an old call with transcription off, there is nothing to read after the fact. Switch it on going forward, or use the recorder for the next one.

If the free path doesn't fit — a free Gmail account, a Business Starter Workspace, transcription left off, or a call you weren't the host of — the Meeting Recorder covers all of it. A participant named 1Presence joins the call, records it, and writes up the transcript and summary into your vault — metered at $0.55 an hour, billed by the minute, from the same balance as everything else. It works the same on Google Meet, Zoom, Teams and Webex.

There are two ways to use it. On demand: just give the 1Presence chat a meeting link any time and ask it to join — it goes straight in. Automatically: turn the Meeting Recorder on in the Connectors panel and connect your Google Calendar, and 1Presence joins your meetings by itself — it watches your calendar and sits in on any entry that has a meeting link, with a tap-to-skip heads-up before each one.