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Transcribe and summarize calls automatically
Business data & reporting · Dev, web & IT · checked 2026-10-17
Send call recordings to Deepgram’s API for transcription, have a model summarize each call, and store summaries in Notion. See the voice-assistant build for a fuller example.
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Confirmed means the vendor documents it (linked). It doesn't mean IonBin has tested it. AI-platform and human steps need no source.
Human approval
Record only with consent. You spot-check summaries.
Watch out for
Keep the human approval step: Record only with consent. You spot-check summaries.
Starter prompt
Goal: Make every call searchable without a meeting bot. Tools involved: Deepgram, Notion. Your part: summarizes each call; stores the summaries. Work step by step, show me each draft or proposed change, and wait for my approval before anything is sent, published, signed, filed or changed in a live system.
Assembled from this page’s goal and steps. Paste it into your AI platform and adjust it to your situation.
Deepgram: code execution to verify (or run it in Make or n8n); Notion: pairing not named in vendor docs
Perplexity
To verify
Deepgram: code execution to verify (or run it in Make or n8n); Notion: pairing not named in vendor docs
Computed from the MCP and API steps only: "Confirmed" needs the tool's docs to name the platform and the platform to support the connection. Browser, upload and human steps work from any platform.
What we checked
Deepgram transcribes pre-recorded audio from a file or a URL through its API and SDKs (JavaScript, Python, C#, Go and Java). Streaming transcription is a separate API; for recordings you already have, use pre-recorded.
Pricing. Deepgram’s pricing page offers a $200 credit, then pay as you go. Per-minute prices depend on the model and on whether audio is streamed or pre-recorded, and some streaming rates are marked as limited-time promotions. Run a few calls through it and check usage before you commit to a volume.
Notion MCP can create pages and databases, so your AI platform can file each summary as a page in a calls database.
Consent
Recording-consent rules differ by location, and some places require every party’s consent. Tell people the call is recorded and why before you start.
Set it up
Save recordings to one folder or storage bucket.
Send each file to Deepgram and keep the transcript with the call date and participants.
Ask your AI platform for a short summary with decisions and follow-ups, and file it in Notion.
Spot-check a few summaries against the transcript each week.
