# Best Meeting Bot API for Legal Tech (2026) > Meeting bot API for legal tech: record depositions and client calls with per-participant audio and speaker-accurate transcripts. Source: https://meetstream.ai/meeting-bot-api/legal-tech ## Best Meeting Bot API for Legal Tech (2026) Legal software captures depositions, client intake, and matter calls where who said what is the record. A meeting bot API for legal tech has to attribute every speaker precisely, keep recordings inside infrastructure you control, and produce clean transcripts that hold up in review. Legal products live and die on accuracy and chain of custody. A summary that misattributes a statement, or a recording that sits in a vendor bucket you cannot audit, is a liability rather than a feature. That is why legal tech teams building on meeting infrastructure care less about a polished notetaker UI and more about the primitives underneath: separate speaker streams, exact timestamps, and storage they own. MeetStream is built as that infrastructure layer. You deploy your own bot with one API call, capture per-participant audio and video across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, and write recordings straight to your own S3 bucket, so client data never has to rest in a third party you cannot govern. For the full capability set behind these pages, see the meeting bot API overview. ### What legal tech teams need from a meeting bot API - Precise speaker attribution, so a deposition or client call transcript maps each statement to the right person - Bring-your-own storage, so recordings and transcripts live in your own S3 bucket and region - Encryption in transit and at rest across the whole capture pipeline - A visible, named bot in the room, which supports disclosure and consent - Webhooks and participant events for an auditable timeline of who joined and when ### Accurate speaker attribution, not guesswork Most tools hand back a single mixed audio track and lean on diarization to guess speaker boundaries. For legal work that guess is not good enough. MeetStream delivers separate per-participant audio on all three platforms, so each speaker is a distinct stream and attribution is exact rather than inferred. ### Data control and residency With bring-your-own S3, recordings and media are written directly to a bucket in the account and region you choose. Retention, lifecycle, and access policies stay on your side, so privileged material never has to sit in third-party storage you cannot audit. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest. MeetStream is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, and is currently under audit for SOC 2 Type 2. For specific compliance questions on a matter, reach us at info@meetstream.ai. ### How MeetStream handles depositions and long-form legal calls Legal recordings are long. A deposition can run most of a working day, and a truncated recording is worse than no recording at all. A bot records for four hours by default and can be raised to ten hours, set through the API rather than requested through support, which covers full-day proceedings without anyone watching a clock. Attribution has to survive scrutiny. MeetStream returns a separate audio stream for each participant on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, so who said what comes from the platform's own participant separation rather than a diarization model inferring it from a single mixed track. When a transcript is going to be read closely, that difference is the difference between a record and an estimate. Recordings and transcripts are retained for thirty days. With your own S3 bucket they are written into your account from the outset, so matter-level retention, legal hold and destruction schedules are enforced by your systems. Without one they remain on MeetStream infrastructure for the thirty-day window. Bots run in the United States by default, with EU, Australia, Japan and the Middle East available and other regions on request, which is the usual requirement when a matter is governed by a specific jurisdiction. There is no cap on concurrent bots, and service levels are agreed per customer. ### Frequently asked questions Yes. With bring-your-own S3, MeetStream writes recordings and transcripts directly to your own bucket, in your region and account, so you control retention and access. MeetStream captures separate per-participant audio on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, so each speaker is an isolated stream. Attribution is based on real separation, not diarization guesswork. Yes. The bot joins as a visible, named participant, which supports disclosure and consent in the room. Yes. The default limit is four hours and it can be raised to ten hours through the API, which covers full-day proceedings without a truncated record. ### Related ### Other industries ### Build it in an afternoon One API to join, record, stream, and transcribe meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. --- Full site index for agents: https://meetstream.ai/llms.txt API contract (OpenAPI 3.1): https://meetstream.ai/openapi.json MCP discovery: https://meetstream.ai/.well-known/mcp