How to get a Zoom transcript in Hebrew

What Zoom does offer in Hebrew

Live captions. Zoom’s automated captions list Hebrew (Zoom Support: automated captions), so you can read the call as it happens. Since May 2026 captions are a live feature only and cannot be saved after the meeting (Zoom Support: May 2026 changes).

Translated captions from Hebrew exist on Business Plus and Enterprise plans, or with the Translated Captions add-on (Zoom Support: translated captions). They are live and are not saved either.

The in-meeting transcript. The host can turn on Zoom’s meeting transcript, and participants can request it (Zoom Support). Zoom’s help page for it does not publish a language list, so we do not claim it works in Hebrew.

What people try instead

• Changing the transcript language. The host can change the language of a cloud-recording transcript and have it made again, but only to one of the 19 languages. Hebrew is not one of them.
• Keeping the English transcript. A cloud recording is transcribed in English by default. Run on Hebrew speech, that file does not give you what was said.
• Uploading a recording to a transcription service. It needs a recording, which the host owns, and a step after every call. Everyone on the call has to agree to being recorded.
• Asking the host. If you are a participant, you get Zoom’s files only if the host records, turns on the transcript and shares it.

Who needs this

The typical case is an Israeli startup on a call with a partner or investor in the US. The client part of the call is in English, but before and after it the team talks in Hebrew, and that is often where the real decisions are made: who answers which question, what price is the floor, what goes into the follow-up.

How Trippi Notes writes a Hebrew transcript

1. 1Open Zoom in the browser. Click the meeting link, cancel the prompt to open the app and choose Join from your browser. The host or admin can switch this link off; then ask them to allow it.
2. 2Click the Trippi Notes icon. Click the icon in the Chrome toolbar once the call starts. Chrome lets the extension hear the tab only after that click.
3. 3Set Hebrew as the language you hear. Choose עברית on the language bar. It is a hint, not a lock: if someone switches to English, that is written down too.
4. 4Turn on translation if you want it. Tick translation and pick the language you read best. Each line then gets a second line in that language.
5. 5Read the notes after the call. The transcript with names and times, a summary, tasks with owners and a follow-up draft are in your journal.

The transcript is written in Hebrew, as it was said, with the speaker’s name and the time on every line. The summary is written in the language you read: the one you translate into, or your browser’s language if translation is off. No bot joins the call and no participant is added. Still, tell people you are taking notes. It is good manners, and in some places it is the law: AI note taker consent.

What a line looks like

Noa, 11:05
אני חושבת שכדאי לדחות את ההשקה בשבוע, עד שהלקוח יאשר את המחיר.I think we should push the launch back a week, until the client approves the price.

The Hebrew line is what was said; the line under it is the translation, shown when translation into English is on. After the call, a line like this becomes a decision or a task with an owner in the summary, and Ask AI answers questions about the call with quotes that jump back to the moment.

Notes on Hebrew

• Right to left. Hebrew runs right to left, and the transcript keeps it as real Hebrew text. When you export it as Markdown or plain text and paste it into an editor, set that paragraph to right-to-left. A line that starts with an English product name can look shuffled in a left-to-right editor; that is how mixed-direction text behaves everywhere, and no words are lost.
• English words in Hebrew speech. Israeli teams say “roadmap”, “deployment” or a product name in the middle of a Hebrew sentence. Add the terms you use to the glossary: it goes to speech recognition as a hint and keeps the spelling the same in the summary.

Hebrew on the other platforms

Google Meet has the same gap: Google Meet transcript in Hebrew. Teams does: Hebrew is on its list of spoken languages, if the organizer’s policy allows transcription. The whole picture is in the language table.