🦜✨Use OpenAI to Transcribe Audio + Summarize with AI + Save to Google Drive

n8n template #3076

Summary

Automate Audio Transcription, AI Summarization, and Google Drive Storage Who is this for? Content Teams, Researchers, and Administrators who need to automatically process voice memos, meeting recordings, or interview audio into structured, searchable documents. What problem does this solve? Eliminates manual transcription work by automatically converting audio files into organized text documents with AI analysis, while maintaining human oversight through approval workflows. What this workflow does Smart Audio Processing: Triggers when new .m4a files appear in Google Drive Uses OpenAI's Whisper for accurate transcription Implements dual-format reporting (JSON + Markdown) Human Oversight (opti

How to set it up

Open template #3076 on n8n.io and click Use for free, or copy the template JSON and paste it onto an empty canvas in n8n.
Create 4 credentials under Credentials → Add credential: Telegram, Google Drive, Gmail, OpenAI. Then open each of those nodes and pick the credential.
Check the model in the OpenAI node. The template may point at a model your account can't use; swap it for one you have access to.
Click Execute workflow and step through each node's output to confirm the data looks right.
Toggle the workflow to Active so its trigger runs on its own.

Hand off to your agent

Prompt

Help me set up the n8n workflow "🦜✨Use OpenAI to Transcribe Audio + Summarize with AI + Save to Google Drive" (https://n8n.io/workflows/3076). It uses: Telegram, Google Drive, Gmail, OpenAI. Import the template JSON into my n8n instance, list every credential I need to create, and walk me through testing it.

Paste into Claude Code and it will do the rest.

Apps and nodes

Telegram Google Drive Gmail OpenAI

Questions

Yes. Joseph LePage published it free on n8n.io as a verified creator, and it has 18K views. It runs on n8n Cloud or a self-hosted n8n instance.

Telegram, Google Drive, Gmail, OpenAI. The other 0 nodes are built into n8n.

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