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title: "Helix answers from meeting transcripts"
description: "Ask about a moment in a meeting and Helix pulls the exact excerpts — by time range, speaker, or phrase — and quotes them with timestamps."
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# Helix answers from meeting transcripts

Helix could already answer from a meeting's summary. It can now go back to the transcript when the summary isn't enough, and quote the part that actually answers your question.

## Excerpts, not whole transcripts

Meeting queries return the summary plus transcript metadata by default. When you ask for a quote, a timestamp, or what a specific person said, Helix retrieves only the excerpts it needs — a time range, a speaker's lines, or a phrase search — instead of loading an hour of conversation into the answer.

Quoted lines keep their `[MM:SS] Speaker:` attribution, so you can tell who said what and jump to that point in the recording.

![Helix answer quoting timestamped transcript lines from a meeting](/images/releases/transcript-excerpt-answer.png)

## Honest about what it has

If a transcript isn't available, a requested range falls outside the meeting, or a speaker label doesn't exist, Helix says so rather than filling the gap with plausible-sounding dialogue.

Source: https://docs.heizen.work/releases/1-11-5/index.mdx