The Colibri app for Slack allows you to bring live transcription from Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, and other video-conferencing platforms to Slack.
Table of contents:
- Availability
- How to connect Colibri to Slack
- How to add Colibri to a channel
- How to use the Colibri app in Slack
- How to set Colibri to automatically post all your transcripts to Slack
- How to disconnect your Colibri account from Slack
What you need:
- A Colibri account. Sign up here if you haven’t already.
- A Slack account.
- If you’re a Zoom customer, make sure you’ve installed the Colibri App for Zoom.
Connect Colibri to Slack
- Sign in to your Colibri account.
- Open the account menu in the lower left corner of the screen, go to Settings > Integrations.
- Navigate to Slack and click Add to Slack.
- Allow Colibri to access your Slack workspace.
☝️ Note: If you received an error message, please contact your admin and ask them to approve the Colibri App for Slack in your Workspace.
☝️ Note: If someone in your organization has already installed the Colibri App, go to your Slack workspace, type
/colibri start
in any channel and follow the instructions to connect your Colibri account. - Add the Colibri app to Slack channels and private groups where you want to share your transcripts. Instructions below 👇
Add Colibri to a channel
- Click on the Colibri icon in Slack. If you haven’t received any messages from Colibri yet, type
/colibri help
in any channel, then click on the Colibri icon. - Click Add this app to a channel …
- Select a channel where you want to use Colibri and click Add
Using Colibri app in Slack
- Start transcription of your meeting. In the Colibri workspace, the meeting status must be In progress.
- To start streaming the transcription to Slack, use the /colibri start slash command in a channel or a private group where you need it.
- Colibri will start a Thread with live transcription.
Anyone in this channel will be able to read through the transcript and add comments in real-time.
Also, everyone in the channel will get a link to the transcription in Colibri, where they can read and listen to the recording of the meeting.
- To stop the live transcription in Slack, use the /colibri stop slash command. You’ll be able to resume the live transcription in the same Slack thread by typing /colibri start.
☝️ Note: If you want to stop the recording of your current meeting, you’ll need to go to your Colibri workspace.
- To delete the transcript from Slack you need to delete the meeting transcript from your Colibri workspace.
Available Colibri commands

Automatically post all Colibri transcripts to Slack
Colibri can automatically post all your transcripts to Slack.
☝️ Note: Transcripts will be sent to you in direct messages. Only you will be able to see them.
To enable this feature, go to Settings > Integrations and check the box for Automatically send transcripts to Slack.

Revoking Colibri’s access to your Slack account
You can revoke Colibri’s access to your Slack account by going to the Settings > Integrations and clicking Disconnect.

Have more questions? Contact us at support@colibri.ai.