Collect audio and video from anyone through your website or a share link. Submissions upload and transcribe automatically.

The embeddable recorder collects audio and video from other people: customers, research participants, applicants. Put it on your site or share a link, ask questions alongside the recording, and every submission lands in your library transcribed and analyzed.

The Recorder list with a demo recorder scoped to a folder

What people use it for

Research interviews. Participants record their responses at their own pace.
Customer feedback. Collect what customers say in their own voice.
Surveys. Add spoken answers to a form.
Testimonials. Gather video testimonials from customers.
Education. Collect student presentations or language assessments.

Create a recorder

There are two ways to reach the new recorder page. Select Survey in the Quick Actions panel on the dashboard, or open Surveys in the left sidebar under Content and select New recorder in the top right.

Setup runs in four steps, and each one ends with a button that carries you to the next.

Settings

The Settings step is grouped into four sections:

Basic Information: the recorder name and description, the language submissions are transcribed in, and the folder they are saved to.
Recording Options: what people can submit. Toggle Audio, Video, Screen Share and File Upload on or off, and use Transcribe & Analyze to have Speak process each submission automatically. Live Transcription transcribes as the person records.
Duration Limits: the minimum and maximum recording length, both entered in seconds.
Notifications: Send confirmation email to client emails the respondent, and Notify your team on every upload alerts the team members you pick under Notify team members.

Select Create & Continue at the bottom to move on.

Questions

On the Questions step you add what each respondent answers. Under Default Fields, Collect Name and Collect Email are on by default and you can turn either off.

Select Add Question to open the Add Question dialog, write the question, pick the answer type, and confirm. The question appears in the list below, where you can edit or delete it at any time. You can also set up Consent Configuration here, which asks respondents to agree before they record. Repeat for as many questions as you need, then select Continue, or Skip to move on without any.

For the answer types you can choose, and for saving answers into structured fields, see Questions and Field mapping.

Customize

On the Customize step you set Primary Color, Font Family, Theme (Light or Dark) and Logo. Branding is a Pro feature, so on lower plans these controls prompt you to upgrade. Logos must be PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP and under 2 MB.

For finer control over buttons, cards, inputs and players, see Custom CSS. Select Save & Continue to carry on, or Skip.

The final Share step has three sub-tabs:

Link. Send it to anyone and they record directly in their browser. A QR Code is provided here too.
Embed. Paste it into your website, landing page or app. Choose Static (iframe) or Script (advanced), and position it Embedded (Inline), Floating Bottom-Left or Floating Bottom-Right. See Embedding for the query parameters and the fix for site builders that strip microphone permissions.
Mobile App. Pair a phone or tablet to record on the go. See Pairing codes.

Select Finish to save, Create Another to save and start another one, or Back to List to return to your recorders.

What happens when someone records

They open your recorder link or visit the page you embedded it on.
They answer the questions you configured.
They record their audio or video.
The recording uploads to your Speak AI library.
Speak transcribes and analyzes it.
You get a notification when it is ready.

Where submissions land

Recordings arrive in the folder you chose during setup. Each submission carries the recording, the transcript, the insights and the answers to your questions.

Send new submissions to other tools

You can fire a webhook when a new recording is submitted, which lets you send the data to Airtable, Google Sheets or your CRM, notify your team on Slack, or trigger a follow-up email.

For which browsers respondents can record in, see Browser support.

Collecting recordings at scale for research or hiring? Book a demo and we’ll build a recorder for your use case.

Embeddable recorder