n8n Google Drive Transcript Transcriber to .TXT (Palatine Speech)

Automatically transcribe Google Drive audio/video into .TXT using Palatine Speech

Turn every new recording dropped into your Google Drive folder into a ready-to-read text transcript. This n8n workflow monitors a specified Drive location, transcribes each audio/video file with Palatine Speech, saves the result as a .txt file, and uploads it back to Google Drive—no manual work required.

What this workflow does

• Watches a Google Drive folder for newly created files.
• Filters incoming items so only audio and video files pass through (by MIME type and/or extension), skipping non-media files.
• Downloads the new recording from Google Drive.
• Transcribes the audio/video using the community node n8n-nodes-palatine-speech (Palatine Speech).
• Converts the transcription into a plain-text .txt file named after the original recording.
• Uploads the transcript back to a chosen Google Drive folder for transcripts.

Use cases

• Auto-generate transcripts for meeting recordings stored in a Google Drive “Recordings” folder.
• Create searchable text versions of training videos or recorded calls for your team.
• Build an internal workflow for SaaS operations: recordings land in Drive → transcripts are produced and saved back to Drive.

Technical details

• Trigger: Google Drive trigger (new file in selected folder).
• Processing: filter (audio/video only), download, n8n-nodes-palatine-speech transcription, convert to file (.txt).
• Output: Google Drive upload to the configured transcript destination folder.

Setup requirements

You’ll need Google Drive OAuth2 credentials and Palatine Speech API credentials, plus installation of n8n-nodes-palatine-speech. After confirming the correct destination folder, activate the workflow and start processing new recordings.