Google Meet is a popular service that organizations use to host meetings, webinars, and interviews. Meeting hosts who use the service can record and export videos and transcripts. This article provides instructions and considerations for recording and exporting meetings from Google Meet before importing a meeting as an interview record in Aha! Discovery.
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Confirm Google Meet settings
You will need one of the following Google Workspace editions to record meetings and transcripts: Business Standard or Business Plus; Enterprise Standard or Enterprise Plus; Teaching and Learning Upgrade or Education Plus; Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, or Enterprise Essentials Plus.
Transcripts and videos will save to your workspace's Google Drive, so you must first ensure that Drive and Docs are turned on for your Google workspace. Then, you will need to enable recording and transcripts for your organization. A Service Settings administrator in your Google Meet account can do this for you.
Enable Drive and Docs
To enable Drive and Docs for a workspace or organizational group:
Sign in to the Google Admin console.
Navigate to Navigate to Menu -> Apps -> Google Workspace -> Drive and Docs.
Click Service status.
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Select On for everyone.
Note: You can enable Drive and Docs for specific organizational groups, if necessary.
Enable recording and transcripts
To enable recording for a Google Meet workspace:
Sign in to the Google Admin console.
Navigate to Menu -> Apps -> Google Workspace -> Google Meet.
Click Meet video settings.
Click Recording and enable Let people record their meetings. Then, click Save.
Click Meeting transcripts and select On. Click Save.
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Record a meeting
Meeting hosts and co-hosts can record meetings in Google Meet. There are a few steps you need to take when recording a meeting with Google Meet to ensure you can export a transcript when it concludes:
Start the meeting.
Click the Activities menu in the lower right and select Recording.
Check the box next to Also start a transcript.
Click Start recording.
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Export from Google Meet
Google Meet recordings will be located in the meeting organizer's Google Drive.
Access your Google Drive and find the Meet Recordings folder.
Locate and open the meeting's transcript file.
Navigate to File -> Download -> Microsoft Word (.doc).
Go back to the Meet Recordings folder and open the video file.
Click the Download icon.
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Import to Aha! Discovery
Workspace contributors can import transcripts and videos directly as interview records in Aha! Discovery. Transcripts must be in VTT, DOC, or DOCX format. Videos must be in MP4 format.
To import a transcript or video file:
Navigate to the interview and open its Details view.
Click Upload transcript or Import video to import your file. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the file into the box that says Drop video or transcript here to upload.
The transcript will load in the main body of the interview's Details page. From here, you can manually highlight insights or use AI-powered transcript analysis (available in Aha! Discovery Advanced) to capture key learnings, analyze sentiment, and more.
The video will display in the upper-left corner of the interview's Details page. When you play the video, dialogue will be underlined in the transcript so you can follow along.