--- title: "Getting started" description: "Upload or record audio, video and text, transcribe it across 135 languages with speakers identified, then summarize and analyze it with AI." --- > Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.speakai.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Getting started New to Speak AI? Start here. Speak AI transcribes audio, video, and text across **135 languages and regional variants** {/* fact:languages.transcription */}, separates and labels the speakers, then turns what was said into summaries, insights, and action items you can search, share, and act on. It is built for anyone who works with recorded content: meetings, interviews, podcasts, research, customer calls, and lectures. ![The Speak AI home dashboard, headed Welcome back. A Quick Actions card offers Upload, Recording, Meeting, Translation, Survey and Automation. Upcoming Meetings sits beside it with buttons to connect Google or Outlook Calendar, and Activity and Usage panels below list recent files and the credits and storage left on the plan.](/help/media/start/start-index.jpg) ## Your first five minutes ### 1. Add a recording From your [dashboard](https://app.speakai.co/dashboard), select **Upload** to add an audio or video file. MP3, MP4, WAV and [most other formats](/help/uploads/formats/) work. You can also [record straight into the app](/help/uploads/in-app-recording/), or let the [Meeting Assistant](/help/meeting-assistant/) join your Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex calls and record them for you. ### 2. Wait for the transcript Processing starts on its own. A typical file is ready in a few minutes, and you get a notification when it finishes. [Processing times](/help/transcription/processing-times/) ### 3. Read and correct the transcript Read and search the full transcript with timestamps, select any line to jump to that moment in the audio or video, and rename the speakers so you know who said what. [Speaker identification](/help/transcription/speakers/) · [Editing a transcript](/help/transcription/editing/) ### 4. Ask questions in AI Chat Open [AI Chat](/help/ai-chat/) and ask anything about the recording: what the key takeaways were, which action items came out of it and who owns them, a five-bullet summary, or which questions got asked. Pick which [model](/help/ai-chat/models/) answers from the chat toolbar. ## Quick actions on the dashboard The dashboard carries six quick action buttons, each of which opens the page it names: - **Upload** opens the upload window, for recordings and [text files](/help/uploads/text-notes/) alike - **Recording** starts an audio or video recording in the browser - **Meeting** sends the [meeting assistant](/help/meeting-assistant/) to a call - **Translation** opens the [translation](/help/transcription/translation/) window - **Survey** creates an [embeddable recorder](/help/recorder/) - **Automation** builds an [automation](/help/automations/) ## Beyond your first transcript - **[Folders](/help/folders/manage/)** group recordings into projects or topics - **[Insights](/help/insights/)** pull out keywords, categories, and sentiment for every file - **[The embeddable recorder](/help/recorder/)** collects audio and video from other people for interviews, surveys, and feedback - **[Automations](/help/automations/)** run AI Chat prompts on every new upload without anyone starting them - **[Zapier](/help/integrations/zapier/)** connects Speak AI to more than 5,000 other apps, and the [API](/api/) covers anything you want to build directly ## Plans and the free trial Speak AI starts with a free trial that has every premium feature turned on and needs no credit card. When it ends, the account converts to the free tier rather than being charged. [What the trial includes](/help/account/free-trial/) · [Compare plans](/help/account/plans/) ## Speak AI is not Speak.com Speak AI (speakai.co) and Speak (speak.com) are separate companies with different products. Speak AI, this product, transcribes and analyzes audio, video, and text. [Speak.com](https://speak.com) is a language learning platform where you practice speaking a foreign language in conversation with an AI. If that is what you came for, you want speak.com instead. ## AI Agents AI Agents are conversational assistants you deploy to run interviews, collect feedback, and answer questions by voice on a phone or the web, by video with an avatar, or by text chat on your site. Create one at [agents.speakai.co](https://agents.speakai.co): choose the agent type, set its name, personality, welcome message, and instructions, add a knowledge base of documents or website URLs, define the structured outputs you want extracted, then publish it. Share it as a link or QR code, embed it on your site, or assign it a phone number. Every conversation is recorded, transcribed, scored against those structured outputs, and available for review, and the agent flags the questions it could not answer well. AI Agents is a separate product from the core Speak AI platform, with its own pricing. See [speakai.co/ai-agents](https://speakai.co/ai-agents/) or [book a consultation](https://calendly.com/speak-ai/demo?utm_source=docs&utm_campaign=book-demo). --- Related: [Account setup](/help/start/account-setup/) · [Mobile app](/help/start/mobile-app/) · [Uploads](/help/uploads/) · [Transcription](/help/transcription/) Source: https://docs.speakai.co/help/start/index.mdx