Is Dicta a Zoom alternative? How it differs and when to choose it

Short answer: partly, but they serve different purposes. Zoom is a tool for video calls. Dicta is a meeting platform where the outcome matters more than the call itself: the recording, a transcript split by speaker, and an AI summary with decisions and tasks are ready right after the meeting.

Let’s look at how they differ and who each one suits.

What they have in common

With Dicta you can hold online meetings right in the browser or in the apps. Guests join via a link, with no separate accounts and no software to install. Apps are available for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. For larger events there are webinars for up to about 600 participants.

So Dicta covers the basic job of getting people together for an online meeting.

The main difference

In Zoom, the meeting ends when everyone clicks “Leave”. After that, someone has to remember what was agreed, rewatch the recording and write up the minutes.

In Dicta, the most labor-intensive parts happen automatically:

• Recording and transcript by speaker. Every line is attributed to the person who said it. You can search the transcript by text and jump straight to the right moment in the recording.
• AI summary. Topics, decisions and tasks in one document. It takes about 2 minutes to read.
• Tasks. They are created automatically, assigned to participants, and can be passed to Jira, Trello, Asana and ClickUp.
• AI chat across past meetings. You can ask: “What did we decide about the budget last Tuesday?”
• Summary in Telegram. The results arrive where you already communicate.

Uzbek language

For companies in Uzbekistan this is often the deciding factor. Dicta transcribes meetings in Uzbek, Russian and English, and real conversations here often mix these languages.

What if your team already uses Zoom, Meet or Teams?

You don’t have to switch. There are two ways to connect Dicta to the calls you already have:

1. The Dicta bot. It joins Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meetings in your place. Even if you couldn’t attend, you get a full transcript and summary.
2. The desktop app, no bot. It detects when you join a call and records it, and other participants don’t see an extra “participant” in the room. Important: if the law requires consent to record, getting the consent of all participants is your responsibility.

So you can use Dicta both as a standalone meeting platform and as a “memory layer” on top of Zoom.

What’s in Dicta

• Transcription. Speech to text in three languages, with speaker separation.
• AI summary. After every meeting: topics, decisions and tasks.
• Recording bot. Records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls.
• Meeting room. Online meetings in the browser and in apps, with recording and summary built in.
• Offline recording. Recording from your phone with speaker separation, including a roundtable mode.
• Upload recordings. Transcript and summary from audio and video files.
• Desktop app. macOS and Windows: records a meeting on your computer.
• Webinars. Up to about 600 participants.
• AI chat. Questions about your past meetings.
• Tasks and integrations. Tasks, export to task managers, and summaries in Telegram.

Who it’s for

• Managers and project leads. Minutes and tasks without manual work.
• Sales teams and call centers. Customer conversations stay as searchable text.
• HR. Candidate interviews can be re-read and compared.
• Teachers and students. Lectures and classes become notes.
• Journalists and researchers. Interviews are transcribed without typing them out by hand.

Try it at your next meeting

Sign up, hold a meeting in Dicta or send the bot to your Zoom call, and see what the result looks like: transcript, summary, tasks.

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