Turn Your Meeting Transcript Into a Song (Yes, Really)

Every meeting you sit through now produces a meeting transcript. Zoom makes one. Teams makes one. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and tl;dv exist purely to make more of them. As a species we have never had more meeting transcripts, and we have never done less with them. They pile up like snow in a Norwegian driveway, except nobody has ever once gone out to shovel.

Most meeting transcript tools want to summarize your meeting. Extract action items. Sync to your CRM. Very responsible. Very beige.

So I built the opposite: a free tool that turns your meeting transcript into a one-minute song. It's called This Meeting Should Have Been a Song, and it does exactly what it says. I've spent years putting the comedy into commodities. Consider this my attempt at putting the bangers into business.

What it does with your meeting transcript

You paste in a transcript, or upload the file. Pick a genre: rap, pop, or country. Enter your email. About a minute later, an MP3 lands in your inbox in which an AI has found the emotional core of your Q3 planning sync and set it to music.

The AI reads the whole transcript and pulls out the moments that mattered. The budget nobody would commit to. The "let's take this offline" that never came back online. Kevin's fourth "quick question." Then it writes and performs an original song about them.

It is, and I say this with the confidence of a man who has listened to dozens of them while his family worried, the best possible use of a meeting transcript.

How to get a meeting transcript in the first place

If you don't already have one, every major meeting platform will happily hand you a transcript:

• Zoom: enable audio transcript in recording settings, download the .vtt file after the call
• Microsoft Teams: start transcription during the meeting, download it from the meeting chat afterward (I live in Teams all day at work, so trust me, the transcripts are in there, multiplying)
• Google Meet: turn on transcripts in a Workspace account, they land in Drive
• Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv: making transcripts is their entire job; export as .txt

The tool accepts .txt, .vtt, .srt, .pdf, .docx, .md, .json, and .csv, so whatever your transcript tool spits out will almost certainly work. Or just copy and paste like the rest of us.

What about privacy?

This is the part I actually took seriously. Your transcript is never stored. It's held in your browser, sent once to generate the song, and discarded. No database row, no log, no training data. The only things saved are your email and your genre choice, because someone has to know that your company is a country music company.

Whether the contents of your Monday standup are sensitive enough to worry about is between you and your legal team. But the answer here is the same as if you'd never pasted it.

Why I built this

I sit in a lot of meetings. Some of them are good. Many of them generate a meeting transcript whose highest calling is not a bulleted summary in Confluence that nobody reads. It's a country song.

Also, the tech got weirdly good. Modern AI music generation can take a wall of corporate dialogue and return something with an actual hook. Once I heard the first chorus built from a real product sync— and caught myself humming it in the shower the next morning—this stopped being optional.

A word of thanks: the songs aren't free to make. Every banger burns a pile of AI tokens, and those tokens are generously sponsored by Tana. If you want to do something actually useful with your meetings, Tana is the responsible-adult version of this entire idea. Takk for the tokens.

FAQ

Try it

Take the worst meeting on your calendar this week. Get the transcript. Feed it to This Meeting Should Have Been a Song and pick country.

You'll never hear "let's circle back" the same way again.