talat on TechCrunch

Last Tuesday, TechCrunch published an article about talat by Sarah Perez. We released the first version of talat on 11 March, so it came out less than two weeks after launch.

How talat started

Granola was the first app I'd used that recorded a Mac's system audio without recording the screen as well. Working out how it did that took me to Core Audio taps, an Apple API with very little documentation at the time, and I wrote an open source library called AudioTee to make it easier to use. Over the following year I built most of the parts a meeting app needs, but never anything that felt like a product rather than a tech demo. FluidAudio, which runs small speech models on the Mac's Neural Engine, is what made talat possible.

The article quotes me on why I wanted to build it: "it always nagged me that the trade-off required providing not just my data, but my audio data; my actual voice." talat transcribes your meetings on your Mac, and your audio, transcripts and notes stay on it.

The week since

It's been our busiest week by far. On Monday I spoke to Ivan Mehta, also at TechCrunch, for his newsletter on voice AI.

Yesterday we released 0.6.0. The meeting view now has the transcript in the middle, with your notes on one side and the people in the meeting on the other. You can write a note during a call, or reply to a line of the transcript to attach a note to it. You can tell talat who you expect in a meeting before it starts, and it now learns what each person sounds like as they're identified. Summaries can go to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including one you host yourself, and the built-in summariser is now Qwen 3.5 4B, which writes better summaries than the model it replaces.

What's next

We're working on an MCP server, so you can ask Claude or another assistant about your own meetings. Calendar integration comes after that, so talat knows a meeting's title and who's in it before it starts.

Thanks to Sarah for writing about us, and to everyone who has tried talat this week. If you haven't yet, you can use it free for ten hours without creating an account.