How to get a Zoom transcript in Persian

What Zoom does offer in Persian

Live captions. Zoom’s automated captions list Persian (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 Persian 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 Persian.

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. Persian is not one of them.
• Keeping the English transcript. A cloud recording is transcribed in English by default. Run on Persian 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

Persian-speaking teams and founders in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US often talk among themselves in Persian and with everyone else in English. The internal call is where the plan is agreed, and it is the one no built-in transcript writes down.

How Trippi Notes writes a Persian 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 Persian as the language you hear. Choose فارسی 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 Persian, 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

Sara, 17:05
پیشنهاد قیمت جدید را تا پنج‌شنبه برایتان می‌فرستیم.We will send you the new price offer by Thursday.

The Persian 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 Persian

• Right to left. Persian runs right to left and the transcript keeps it as Persian text. When you paste an export into an editor, set the paragraph to right-to-left so mixed lines with English names read in order.
• Dari and Persian. The list has one entry, فارسی. Dari speakers can use it; accents differ, so check names and numbers against the call.

Persian on the other platforms

Google Meet does not transcribe Persian either, though its live captions list it, marked beta. Microsoft Teams has the same gap: Microsoft Teams transcript in Persian. The whole picture is in the language table.