What is Recall AI?
Recall AI is a note taker API that gives developers a single endpoint to capture transcripts, recordings, and metadata from video meetings. The note taker API pulls structured data from live and recorded calls across major conferencing platforms. It solves the core problem of building meeting capture infrastructure from scratch. Recall AI includes a Meeting Bot API, a Desktop Recording SDK, and a Calendar API. Each component targets a different capture method, from a bot joining a call to a background desktop process.
Features & Benefits
- Real-Time Transcription: produce live, word-by-word transcripts from active meetings as they happen.
- Asynchronous Transcription: generate full meeting transcripts after a call ends for post-session processing.
- Speaker Diarization: identify each speaker individually by capturing separate audio streams per participant, so transcripts always show who said what.
- MP4 Recording: capture clean video recordings in MP4 format with switchable speaker and gallery views.
- Real-Time Audio Streaming: access raw per-participant audio streams during a live call for custom processing.
- Real-Time Video Streaming: access per-participant video streams in real time to support downstream video applications.
- Screen Share Capture: record shared screen content as a separate data stream during meetings.
- Chat Message Access: read and send in-meeting chat messages programmatically through the API.
- Meeting Metadata: retrieve meeting titles, participant names, participant IDs, and other call-level data.
- Participant Emails: pull attendee email addresses from connected calendar events.
- Meeting Bot API: deploy a bot that joins video calls to record, transcribe, and interact, with built-in support for recording consent flows and breakout rooms.
- Desktop Recording SDK: capture video conferences and in-person meetings through a desktop app without placing a bot in the call.
- Calendar API: sync and retrieve calendar events to surface participant emails, meeting titles, and scheduling metadata inside your app.
- Storage and Playback: store recordings and make them available for playback within your application.
- Interactive Meeting Agents: build bots that stream audio and display images inside a live meeting.
- Platform Integrations: connect to major video conferencing and productivity platforms through a single API.
Real-World Applications
A product team building a note taker API feature into their SaaS tool can deploy Recall AI’s Meeting Bot API in a matter of hours. The bot joins calls, captures diarized transcripts, and returns structured data ready for downstream summarization or CRM logging. Teams building in competitive sales intelligence or call coaching tools can use that same note taker API layer to pull per-rep recordings and real-time audio without managing bot infrastructure themselves.
Legal technology platforms handling sensitive client calls may rely on the Desktop Recording SDK to capture conversations without placing a visible bot in the meeting. This approach suits situations where a stealthier recording method fits compliance or client experience requirements. The SDK feeds the same transcript and metadata pipeline, so the rest of the note taker API workflow stays consistent.
Healthcare and clinical documentation tools can use the note taker API to capture patient-provider conversations and route transcripts to AI scribes or documentation workflows. The HIPAA coverage on Recall AI’s security layer supports use cases where protected health information passes through the recording pipeline.
Enterprise productivity tools that need calendar-aware scheduling can pull participant emails and meeting metadata through the Calendar API. This data feeds into auto-join logic, pre-meeting context cards, or post-call follow-up automation without requiring users to copy and paste invite details manually.
