Record meetings and draft notes

What Meetings does#

Meetings records a call or an in-person meeting, shows a live transcript, labels who said what, and can draft notes you edit. Open Meetings in the sidebar to get started.

Meetings are saved with your transcript history, so saving must be on in Transcripts.

Start and end a meeting#

1. In Meetings, choose Start meeting. You can also use Start meeting in the tray or menu bar.
2. Optionally enter a Meeting name.
3. Choose what to record. Microphone captures you and anyone in the room. Computer audio captures other people on a call.
4. Choose Start recording.

If computer audio isn't available, the dialog says why and offers Record mic only.

While you record, the transcript appears as people talk. To add your own note, type it in the note box and choose Add note.

To finish, choose End meeting. Whisperstream then finishes the transcript and speaker labels.

Name and fix speakers#

Open the meeting's Transcript tab.

• Rename a speaker: click the speaker, type a name and choose Rename. Every line from that speaker updates.
• Merge two speakers: click a speaker, choose Merge into another speaker, pick the right person and choose Merge speakers. You can undo it right after.
• Move one line: choose Change speaker on the line and pick the right person.

Get notes#

1. Open the meeting's Notes tab.
2. Choose Draft notes.

Notes include a summary, topics, decisions and action items with owners. You can edit any of it. Your own notes stay separate and are never changed.

Notes use the provider you chose in Enhancement:

• Local: notes need the Customizable model. Stream-1 Mini doesn't draft notes.
• Cloud: Whisperstream asks before it sends a meeting to a provider for the first time.

To draft notes automatically when each meeting ends, open Meeting settings and turn on Draft meeting notes automatically. Enhancement must be on.

Change how notes are written#

Notes are written with the Meeting notes profile.

1. Open Enhancement and open the Meeting notes profile.
2. Edit its Cleanup prompt, for example to ask for shorter points or a more formal tone.

The prompt changes the wording, not the sections. You can also create your own profile and choose it under Notes profile in Meeting settings. On a meeting that already has notes, pick another profile and choose Redraft. See Profiles and routing.

Copy and export#

On a finished meeting:

• Copy notes copies the notes.
• Copy transcript copies the transcript with speaker names and times.
• Export saves a Markdown file with the notes and transcript, or the audio.

Exported files aren't encrypted.

Privacy#

Meetings are transcribed and labelled on this computer and stored encrypted with your transcript history. Meeting content leaves this computer only if you draft notes with a cloud provider you approve.