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Record your first meeting

Join a call as usual: Transcript Audio notices, records after a short countdown, and writes your notes when the call ends.

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There is nothing to start. Join a call in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack or any other app, and Transcript Audio does the rest.

The menu bar menu after a Zoom call is detected: "Recording starts in 7 s (Zoom)" with options to start now or not record this call, and a "When a call starts" submenu.The menu bar menu after a Zoom call is detected: "Recording starts in 7 s (Zoom)" with options to start now or not record this call, and a "When a call starts" submenu.
The menu after a call is detected: a countdown, with Start now and Don't record this call.
  1. Join your call. When an app has used your microphone for 10 seconds, a countdown starts in the menu bar or system tray.
  2. Recording begins when the countdown ends. Click Start now to begin straight away, or Don't record this call to skip it.
  3. While it records, a notification says Recording: and the meeting name, and a recording bar with Pause and Stop recording shows at the top of every app window.
  4. Leave the call. Once the microphone has been free for 30 seconds, recording stops and a notification says Recording saved:.
  5. A minute or two later a Notes ready: notification appears. Click it to open the meeting in Recent meetings.

In-person meetings

For a meeting in the room, open the menu and choose Start recording. It is named In-person meeting until the notes give it a proper title.

Mac
The Transcript Audio menu when no call is on: Ready, then Start recording, When a call starts, Recent meetings, Open meetings folder, Settings, Setup guide, Help and Quit.The Transcript Audio menu when no call is on: Ready, then Start recording, When a call starts, Recent meetings, Open meetings folder, Settings, Setup guide, Help and Quit.
Windows
The Transcript Audio menu when no call is on: Ready, then Start recording, When a call starts, Recent meetings, Open meetings folder, Settings, Setup guide, Help and Quit.The Transcript Audio menu when no call is on: Ready, then Start recording, When a call starts, Recent meetings, Open meetings folder, Settings, Setup guide, Help and Quit.
Start recording in the menu bar or tray menu.

Find and share your notes

  1. Click the Notes ready: notification, or choose Recent meetings > Show all meetings... in the menu.
  2. In Recent meetings, click Open meeting record to read the notes, or Open folder to see every file.
  3. To share, attach Meeting record.md (or Meeting record.docx if you chose Word in Settings > Saving > Export formats) to an email or upload it where your team keeps notes.
The Transcript.audio window during a call: a purple bar with a red dot shows "Recording: Pension transfer review", above a list of recent meetings marked Recording or Done.The Transcript.audio window during a call: a purple bar with a red dot shows "Recording: Pension transfer review", above a list of recent meetings marked Recording or Done.
Recent meetings: each meeting with its status and what you can do with it.

Want other formats, such as plain text, captions, JSON or a CSV of action items? Turn them on in Export formats. What each file is: What's in a meeting folder.

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