Turn meeting notes into an audio catch-up
Upload a week of meeting notes or call transcripts to Lissin and get one catch-up episode: decisions, open questions, what changed. What to redact first.
The short answer
Export the notes or transcripts as DOCX or PDF, upload the week together, and ask for decisions and open questions rather than a summary. The output is a catch-up for the meetings you missed, which is the only version of this worth listening to.
How to do it
Redact before you upload
Meeting notes contain other people’s words, salaries, customer names and half-formed opinions. Take out what should not leave the room. This is the step to do first and not skip, and it applies whatever tool you use next.
Export as DOCX or PDF
Most transcription tools export both. DOCX keeps speaker labels as structure, which lets the script attribute positions to people rather than flattening a debate into consensus.
Ask for decisions and disagreements
‘What was decided, what was left open, and where did people disagree’ is the prompt. A generic summary of five meetings produces five paragraphs of nothing; this produces something you can act on before the next one.
At a glance
- Sources it takes
- A link, pasted text, or an upload: DOCX, DOC, PDF, HTML, PPTX, XLSX
- Best request
- Decisions, open questions, disagreements
- Speaker labels
- Preserved from DOCX exports
- Transcript
- Included, synchronised to the audio
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Does Lissin join or record meetings?
- No. It has no calendar access, no meeting bot and no recording capability. It reads notes and transcripts you have already produced and uploaded.
- Is it safe to upload internal notes?
- Treat an upload the way you would treat sending the file to any external service, because that is what it is. Redact accordingly, and check your own organisation’s policy before uploading anything about identifiable people.
- Can it be a recurring weekly catch-up?
- Uploads are one-off by nature — you would upload each week. A recurring show works on a described subject rather than on files, so the weekly upload stays a manual step.
What this does not do
Automatic transcripts misattribute speakers and mishear names, and anything wrong in the transcript is wrong in the audio with more confidence than it deserves. Tone does not survive either: a joke and a commitment read identically in a transcript.
Try it on something you already have
Upload a PDF, a deck or a document and describe the show you want from it. Or press play on anything in the library first — no account, no app.
Last reviewed 9 September 2026 by Lissin Editorial.