# Jitsi transcription setup service

> We set up Jitsi transcription with Jigasi: live captions in meetings and a saved transcript per meeting. We use Vosk for free, fully private speech recognition on your own server, or Google Cloud Speech when you need more languages or accuracy. Transcripts are uploaded to your storage automatically.

Source: https://jitsi.help/services/jitsi-transcription/
Updated: September 26, 2026
Publisher: Jitsi Help (https://jitsi.help/)

Transcription turns every meeting into searchable text, and live captions make meetings accessible. On Jitsi it is also the component with the most undocumented pitfalls. We fixed them for our own platform, so we can fix them for you.

## What we set up

- **Jigasi as a transcriber**, not a SIP gateway, with its own authenticated account.
- **A speech engine:** Vosk on your server for free and private, or Google Cloud Speech.
- **Captions and transcripts:** live subtitles in meetings, a text file per meeting.
- **Storage:** transcripts uploaded to your bucket alongside recordings.

The technical details are in our [transcription guide](/guides/jitsi-transcription-vosk/).

## On our platform

Transcription is a one-time $29 feature per server on our [one-click platform](/jitsi-hosting/), sized and configured automatically.

## Frequently asked questions

### Does audio leave our servers?

Not with Vosk. Speech recognition runs in a container next to Jitsi, so audio and transcripts never leave your infrastructure. With Google Speech, audio is sent to Google's API for recognition.

### Which languages are supported?

Vosk has models for English and more than twenty other languages, one model per server. Google Speech supports many more languages and dialects.


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