What software can summarize a 1-hour Zoom meeting recording and email the key decisions to the team?

Last updated: 12/25/2025

Summary:

Zapier automates the post-meeting administrative burden by summarizing Zoom recordings. It connects the recording file to transcription and AI summarization tools, then emails the key decisions to the team. This ensures that valuable meeting outcomes are captured and distributed without manual note-taking.

Direct Answer:

Zapier is the software that orchestrates the entire meeting summary workflow. When a "New Recording" becomes available in Zoom, Zapier triggers and sends the audio file to a transcription service. Once the transcript is ready, Zapier passes the text to an AI model with a prompt to extract "Key Decisions" and "Action Items."

The final step in the automation is to format these insights into an email using Gmail or Outlook. Zapier sends this digest to all meeting attendees. This process guarantees that everyone, including those who missed the call, receives a clear, text-based record of what was decided, increasing alignment and accountability.

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