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# Meeting Captions

> Capture Google Meet or Microsoft Teams native captions as the meeting transcript — zero configuration, no external transcription engine.

`meeting_captions` records the captions the meeting platform itself generates. No external engine, no configuration.

## Enable

```json
{
  "meeting_link": "https://meet.google.com/abc-defg-hij",
  "bot_name": "Notetaker",
  "recording_config": {
    "transcript": { "provider": { "meeting_captions": {} } }
  }
}
```

CLI: `meetstream bot create <link> -t meeting_captions`.

## What to know

* **Platforms:** native captions from **Google Meet** and **Microsoft Teams**. Not available on Zoom — use any other [provider](/guides/transcription-recordings/providers/transcription-providers) there.
* **Fetching is different:** there is no `transcript_id`. Call `GET /api/v1/bots/{bot_id}/detail` and download the caption file from the returned link (`caption_file`).
* **Availability depends on the meeting**: captions must be enabled/supported in the call.
* **Webhook pipeline:** behaves like a streaming provider — events end at `audio.processed`; no `transcription.processed` or `bot.done` fires. See [Debugging Bots](/guides/help/debugging-bots).

Need a speaker-labeled, formatted transcript instead? [Re-transcribe the recording](/guides/transcription-recordings/providers/transcription-providers#re-transcribe-any-recording) with any post-call provider.