Soundbites make it easy to capture the most important moments from your meetings—without rewatching the full recording. Whether it's a key decision, a memorable quote, or a quick action item, soundbites help you highlight and share what truly matters.

In this guide, you’ll learn what soundbites are, how they work, and the different ways to create and manage them in Fireflies. With both manual tools and AI-powered options, turning long meetings into quick, meaningful clips becomes effortless.

Let’s dive in. 🚀

🎧 What Are Soundbites?

Soundbites are short audio or video clips created from your meeting recordings or transcripts. They help you capture key insights—without sifting through the entire meeting. You can use soundbites to highlight decisions, memorable quotes, important explanations, or moments you want to share with your team.

Fireflies gives you multiple ways to create soundbites:

• Manually, by selecting parts of the transcript

• Automatically, using AI to surface key moments

• Using meeting markers to quickly flag important sections

No matter how you create them, all your soundbites stay organized in one place for easy access.

✨ What You Can Do With Soundbites

Soundbites give you simple ways to capture, organize, and share key meeting moments. You can:

• Create clips manually

• Generate clips automatically with AI

• Highlight moments using meeting markers

• Edit, share, download, or delete soundbites

• Organize them into playlists for quick access

🎬 How to Create Soundbites

There are three ways to create soundbites in Fireflies, depending on how you prefer to capture moments from your meetings:

Manual and Automatic Method:

You can create soundbites manually by selecting words, lines, or sections from the transcript—or automatically using AI through Magic Soundbites or Keyword Soundbites to surface key moments instantly.

Using meeting markers

Highlight important moments during or after the meeting with bookmarks, action items, or reactions. These can be converted into soundbites or quickly revisited later.

🛠 How to Manage Soundbites

Once your soundbites are created, Fireflies gives you several ways to keep them organized and easy to work with:

• Edit the title, timing, or access settings

• Share soundbites with teammates or external viewers

• Download clips as MP3 or MP4

• Delete soundbites you no longer need

• Add them to playlists for grouped viewing and sharing

All your soundbites live in the Soundbites tab, where you can manage them in one place.

Soundbites make it effortless to capture and highlight the key moments from your meetings.

Now that you understand what they are and how they help, you’re ready to start creating your own. Continue to the guide on how to create soundbites to learn the exact steps for manual and automatic soundbite creation.