Potok turns speech into text in 33 languages, including English and Russian.
MTS Link (formerly Webinar.ru) has a text transcript in Russian, but only on Enterprise and academic plans: the “Meetings” line does not have it, and on “Meetings Free” you cannot even download the video. Then the recording is sent to the Potok Telegram bot @potok_now_bot or the bot's mini app: the text arrives in the chat or as a file, 60 minutes per month for free.
A recorded webinar or meeting in MTS Link (the service used to be called Webinar.ru) cannot always be transcribed right in the personal account: its own transcript is built in, but it is available not on all plans. What to do next depends on which plan is connected.
Where to find a meeting recording in Webinar.ru (MTS Link)
The recording is turned on by the organizer or the administrator of the event; for webinars this usually happens automatically.
- Ready recordings are stored in the “Recordings” section in the files of the personal account.
- The organizer sends participants a link to watch the recording online.
- The final file is exported in MP4 format, but only after conversion: on the free “Meetings Free” plan this conversion and download are not available at all.
How to transcribe a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting recording into text
If the plan allows downloading the recording but there is no transcript in the personal account, the file is turned into text by the Potok bot.
- In the personal account open “Recordings”, choose the meeting you need and download the converted MP4.
- In Telegram open @potok_now_bot and start it with the /start command.
- Send the bot the downloaded file.
- A small recording turns into text right in the conversation, a long one arrives as a separate file. Next to it the buttons “Summary”, “Tasks and deadlines”, “Ask”, “Other format” appear, and the breakdown by lines and timestamps are turned on in advance through /settings.
If the recording weighs more than two gigabytes or it is more convenient to work in a browser, the same file is moved to the bot's mini app: sign in by email or through Telegram, and the results are stored in the same place as in the bot.
The built-in transcript in Webinar.ru (MTS Link): who it is for
The “text transcript” is built into MTS Link and works in Russian, but it is turned on only on the Enterprise, Enterprise Total and academic plans: the whole “Meetings” line does not have such a feature on any plan. You open it like this: in the personal account choose the meeting recording and press the transcript in the upper right corner. Without a suitable plan this button simply will not be there, and then the bot or the web version of Potok will do. A broader overview of tools for turning a recording into text is in the comparison of audio-to-text transcription services.
| Service | Platforms | Free | Price | Payment from Russia | Where speech is recognized |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potok bot and web version | Telegram (@potok_now_bot, mini app inside the bot) | 60 minutes per month | 7 days: 249 ₽, 30 days: 449 ₽, one year: 2 890 ₽; included in the Potok app subscription | Russian bank cards, rubles | cloud, servers in Russia; internet required |
| Telegram voice message transcription | Telegram | without Premium, a few transcriptions per week; with Premium, no limit on their number | — | not disclosed | Telegram servers |
| Fireflies.ai | Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension | limited storage and AI credits | — | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Notta | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android | 120 minutes per month, up to 3 minutes per recording | $13.99/mo (Pro, monthly, 1800 minutes); $27.99/mo (Business, monthly) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| TurboScribe | Web | 3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes | $20/mo (Unlimited, monthly) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| KolerskyAI Whisper Bot | Telegram | the first 5 minutes | 69 ₽/15 minutes; 149 ₽/50 minutes; 490 ₽/200 minutes | rubles | not disclosed |
| SaluteSpeech Bot (Sber) | Telegram | free; voice messages, audio and video notes | — | not disclosed | SaluteSpeech cloud (Sber) |
| Voix (@RecogMyAudioBot) | Telegram | voice messages up to 15 minutes, video up to 6 minutes | — | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Happy Scribe | Web | 10 minutes of AI transcription | $17/mo (Basic, monthly, 120 minutes); $29/mo (Pro, monthly, 600 minutes) | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Voicy (@voicybot) | Telegram | free; on the Wit.ai engine, recordings of up to 50 seconds | — | not disclosed | Wit.ai, Yandex SpeechKit or Google Speech; the user chooses the engine |
| Transkribator (@gotranscribeai_bot) | Telegram, Max | 3 transcriptions per month | — | not disclosed | not disclosed |
| Service | Free | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Potok bot and web version | 60 minutes per month | 7 days: 249 ₽, 30 days: 449 ₽, one year: 2 890 ₽; included in the Potok app subscription |
| Telegram voice message transcription | without Premium, a few transcriptions per week; with Premium, no limit on their number | — |
| Fireflies.ai | limited storage and AI credits | — |
| Notta | 120 minutes per month, up to 3 minutes per recording | $13.99/mo (Pro, monthly, 1800 minutes); $27.99/mo (Business, monthly) |
| TurboScribe | 3 files a day, each up to 30 minutes | $20/mo (Unlimited, monthly) |
| KolerskyAI Whisper Bot | the first 5 minutes | 69 ₽/15 minutes; 149 ₽/50 minutes; 490 ₽/200 minutes |
| SaluteSpeech Bot (Sber) | free; voice messages, audio and video notes | — |
| Task | Characters | Typing (200 chars/min) | Voice (900 chars/min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| chat reply | 300 | 2 min | 0.5 min |
| 1500 | 8 min | 1.7 min | |
| post or meeting minutes | 4000 | 20 min | 4.4 min |
| article | 10000 | 50 min | 11.1 min |
When the bot will not fit for a Webinar.ru meeting
It is worth remembering: the Potok bot is cloud-based, recognizes the recording on servers in Russia and does not work without the internet. If the recording is not in Russian or you need translation into another language, the bot cannot cope with that. There will be no real names of participants in the finished text, only labels “Speaker 1”, “Speaker 2” and the like. The text appears in full after the file is processed, not during the meeting itself. You can compare with similar transcription services in the review of the Otter ai service in Russian (in Russian).
Frequently asked questions
No. Converting and downloading online recordings is not available on the free “Meetings Free” plan; this option appears on paid plans. You can watch the recording online by the organizer's link even without it.
Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text. Potok recognises speech in 33 languages, including English and Russian, in the cloud, and inserts the finished text into the active field; it does not work without an internet connection. Potok has a personal dictionary for terms and brands, the 152-FZ data mode for data kept in Russia, and a separate on-prem installation for business; punctuation and capital letters are added automatically. Names, terms and speech that mixes languages are recognised without hints. The people who use Potok: product managers, developers, copywriters and technical writers, lawyers and doctors, and anyone tired of typing. For Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text. Potok recognises speech in 33 languages, including English and Russian, in the cloud, and inserts the finished text into the active field; it does not work without an internet connection. Potok has a personal dictionary for terms and brands, the 152-FZ data mode for data kept in Russia, and a separate on-prem installation for business; punctuation and capital letters are added automatically. Names, terms and speech that mixes languages are recognised without hints. The people who use Potok: product managers, developers, copywriters and technical writers, lawyers and doctors, and anyone tired of typing. For Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text. Versions are available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and the default hotkey is Ctrl+Space; there are no mobile versions. Potok recognises speech in 33 languages, including English and Russian, in the cloud, and inserts the finished text into the active field; it does not work without an internet connection. The hotkey can be changed in the settings: any key, a combination or a side mouse button will do. Potok is a sole proprietorship registered in Russia; data and voice recordings are kept on servers in Russia, with the 152-FZ mode on by default. For Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text. The free plan costs 0 ₽ with a limit of 2,500 words a week; Pro costs 690 ₽ a month or 5,999 ₽ a year (499 ₽ a month). Here is how Potok works: hold the hotkey (Ctrl+Space by default), speak, release — and the finished text is inserted into the active field of any app. Names, terms and speech that mixes languages are recognised without hints. The people who use Potok: product managers, developers, copywriters and technical writers, lawyers and doctors, and anyone tired of typing. For Transcribing a Webinar.ru (MTS Link) meeting into text you dictate into the same field where you normally type, so there is no need to switch between apps.
Recording to text
Send a recording to Potok's Telegram bot or upload a file of up to 2 GB in the bot's mini app. The first 60 minutes of every month are free.
Open @potok_now_bot in TelegramPrimary sources: yandex.ru · vc.ru · speech2text.ru · audio-2-text.ru
Transcribe a recording in Telegram
Voice messages, video notes, audio and video are transcribed by Potok's Telegram bot @potok_now_bot: forward it a voice message from any chat, or send a file or a YouTube, VK Video, RuTube, Instagram or TikTok link. A short recording comes back as text in the chat, a long one as a file; timestamps and speaker labels can be turned on. The buttons give a short summary, tasks and deadlines, an answer to a question about the recording and export to TXT, DOCX, PDF or SRT. Large files, up to 2 GB, are easier to upload in the bot's mini app, via the Upload button next to the input field. The bot recognizes 100+ languages (the language is detected automatically); 60 minutes per month are free.