Record Webex meeting audio on your Mac.

Webex recording and local transcription

Webex offers both cloud and local meeting recording, and which options you see depends on your account and site settings. The free plan can record locally through the desktop app, but neither local recordings nor free-plan recordings come with a transcript.

echo99 provides a separate way to capture meeting audio and transcribe it on your Mac. It records your microphone and the audio your Mac plays, rather than using Webex’s recording controls. Audio, transcripts, and generated summaries stay in your chosen folder.

How to record a Webex meeting with echo99

1. Complete echo99 setup: grant microphone and system audio recording access and install the transcription models.
2. Join Webex on your Mac using computer audio. Confirm that you can hear the meeting through your Mac’s selected headphones or speakers.
3. Open echo99 in the menu bar and click Record.
4. At the end, click Stop Recording. Open Recordings to play the audio and read the transcript after processing finishes.

Before an important meeting, save a short test recording and confirm it contains both your voice and the other participants. echo99 records your Mac’s default input (System Settings → Sound → Input), so pick the same microphone in Webex’s audio settings. Headphones help keep the other voices out of your microphone track. Should either track go quiet for about 90 seconds while the other still has sound, the menu-bar panel flags it with “Mic looks silent” or “System audio looks silent”. Each recording is saved in its own folder, named by its start time, in ~/Documents/echo99/; Config → Storage changes where.

Use computer audio, even when the meeting has a dial-in number

If you join the audio on a separate phone, that sound does not pass through your Mac. echo99 cannot directly capture it as system audio. Join the audio on the Mac you are recording instead, and keep that Mac awake and in the meeting.

With Auto-record calls turned on in the menu-bar panel, echo99 starts recording a few seconds after Webex starts using your microphone and stops shortly after the meeting releases it. If you only listen, start and stop recording manually: auto-record depends on another app using the microphone, so don’t rely on it for a listening-only session.

Review the discussion and keep your notes

The local transcript includes speaker labels and timestamps. Use full-call playback to check a decision or quotation. To turn the transcript into key points and action items, install a local model using the AI summaries guide; the resulting notes are saved as Markdown beside the recording.

If you already have a Webex MP4 recording, you can import the file for local transcription instead of recording it again.

Audio only, with sharing under your control

echo99 does not capture meeting video, slides, chat, or the participant list, and it does not publish anything to Webex. Other sound playing on your Mac may be captured too. If you need the presentation on video, use a suitable Webex recording option.

Recording locally does not change your organization’s recording rules.

Tell people you are recording

echo99 never joins the Webex meeting, so nothing like Webex's recording indicator tells the others you are recording. Many jurisdictions require the other side’s consent, and your organization or the host may have rules of its own. Say it out loud at the start, before the conversation gets going.

Webex feature details checked in September 2026. See Cisco’s meeting recording documentation for current plan availability and local recording limits.

Related guides: Record Zoom calls, Record Teams calls, Meeting notes without a bot, Speaker identification, Meeting summaries, Transcribe audio and video files