talat 0.13.0: now in 33 languages
talat now transcribes 33 languages, up from 25, with more accurate live text that keeps pace in the language being spoken. It also adds chapters and action points at the end of a meeting, and talat MCP can now write as well as read.
More languages
The eight new languages are Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese.
The full list of 33 languages talat now transcribes is:
- Arabic (new)
- Bulgarian
- Chinese (Mandarin) (new)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hindi (new)
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese (new)
- Korean (new)
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Norwegian (new)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish (new)
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese (new)
More accurate live text
talat streams the words onto the screen within a second of being spoken, before each line settles into the finished transcript. That live text used to come out in English no matter what was being said, so a meeting in another language either showed nothing until the line finished or streamed past as English-shaped nonsense. It now keeps pace in the language actually being spoken, in that language's own script, whether Cyrillic, Arabic, Japanese or Korean.
It used to arrive all in lowercase with no punctuation, too, then visibly reflow a moment later as the finished line landed, capitals and punctuation appearing and the longer words pushing everything along. That jump is now much smaller: what you see forming carries proper capitalisation, punctuation and grammar, so it reads near-identical to the line it settles into.
Chapters and action points
When a recording ends, talat now divides it into chapters, so you can jump straight to the part of the meeting you want, and pulls a list of action points out of what was said. Both sit alongside the summary, both are written on your own machine, and any of them can be switched off if you'd rather keep just the transcript.
talat MCP can write as well as read
talat can expose your meetings to other tools over MCP. That connection used to be read-only. It can now write as well: titles, tags, summaries, chapters and action points can all be updated from a connected tool, and the change shows up in the app straight away. As with everything else in talat, none of it leaves your machine.
There's a lot more in 0.13.0 than I've covered here. The full changelog has the rest, including a much-requested setting that makes you the default speaker on your own microphone.
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