Everything talat does, on your machine.
A complete tour of the app: meeting recording, transcription, speaker recognition, AI meeting notes, calendar and export. Every capability below runs locally on your own device, with cloud services used only when you explicitly choose them.
Privacy
Private by design.
The whole product is built so your conversations never leave your machine. Privacy isn't a setting. It's the architecture.
100% on-device
Recording, transcription, speaker labelling and storage all happen locally. Nothing is uploaded.
No app telemetry
talat doesn't phone home. We can't see your meetings, your usage, or even that you're running it.
Your data stays yours
Recordings, transcripts and notes live in a local database you control, with retention you set.
Cloud only if you ask
Summaries run on a local LLM by default. Point them at a cloud provider only when you choose, with your own key.
Works air-gapped
Run talat on a fully offline or air-gapped machine; it never needs a network to work.
Always informed
Auto-start always shows a recording notice. Nothing is ever captured silently.
Capture
Recording that starts itself.
High-quality dual-stream capture that knows when a call begins and ends, so you never miss the first minute or fumble for a record button. A native player replays it all afterwards.
Dual-stream capture
Your mic and system audio are recorded as separate channels, so every participant comes through cleanly.
Echo cancellation
Built-in echo cancellation removes the remote voices that bleed back through your speakers into the mic.
Auto-start on calls
Detects Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and others using your mic and starts recording: always, selective, prompt, or manual.
Calendar-triggered
Scheduled meetings promote to a live recording the moment the call actually begins.
Auto-stop with grace
Stops shortly after the last call releases the mic; back-to-back calls stay a single recording.
Live mute & meters
Per-channel mute and real-time level meters on the live meeting panel.
Resume a meeting
Pick up a recent meeting where you left off; the new audio joins onto the existing recording.
Configurable retention
Auto-delete audio after 7, 30, 90 or 365 days, or keep it forever. Transcripts always survive.
Built-in playback
Play any meeting back with a scrub bar and chapter markers; click any line in the transcript to jump straight to that moment.
Merge, split, delete
Reshape your library: fold meetings together, split one in two, or remove cleanly.
Transcription
Every word, as it's spoken.
Accurate speech-to-text that runs entirely on your device, with a live preview that keeps pace with the room.
On-device speech recognition
Top accuracy for English, or a multilingual mode that spans dozens of languages.
Live streaming preview
Words appear as they're spoken, before the high-accuracy batch pass finalises each segment.
Custom vocabulary
Bias the recogniser toward names, jargon and acronyms so it spells your terms correctly.
Inline editing
Fix a word, split a line, or merge it with the one above, right in the transcript.
Full-text search
Search every word across every meeting instantly, ranked by relevance.
Speakers
Knows who said what.
Automatic speaker identification that improves over time, recognising familiar voices across every meeting you record.
Speaker identification
Splits each conversation into distinct speakers as it records, all on your device.
Recognised across meetings
Once talat knows a voice it identifies them in future meetings: off, suggest, or automatic.
Voice references
Store reference clips for each speaker; reassigning a line enrols their voice automatically.
Live presence rail
A calm stack of who's in the room, unifying both audio channels in real time.
AI notes
Notes that write themselves.
AI meeting notes generated the moment a meeting ends: a summary, action points and chapters, on a local model or the cloud LLM of your choice.
Auto-summaries
Every meeting is summarised when it ends, with inline timestamps that link back to the moment.
Action points
To-dos with owners, written by hand or extracted from the meeting by AI. Accept, edit, or dismiss each one.
Chapters
Timestamped topic sections on the scrub bar, added by hand or generated by AI, editable and included in exports.
Auto-titles
Meetings name themselves automatically, so your library stays legible.
Your choice of LLM
Local on-device, or OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with your key kept in the OS keychain.
Custom prompt
Rewrite the summary instructions to get the kind of notes you actually want.
Integrations & export
Your meetings, everywhere you work.
Open formats and an MCP server, so your notes flow into the tools and automations you already use.
MCP server
Read and write your meetings from any MCP-aware assistant, over the Model Context Protocol.
Webhooks
POST or PUT Markdown or JSON to your endpoint when a meeting finishes processing.
Markdown & PDF export
Export notes, summary, actions, chapters and transcript, with per-section toggles.
Automatic & batch export
Write every finished meeting to a folder automatically, or bulk-export your whole history at once.
Calendar
In step with your schedule.
Connect your calendar so meetings are ready before they start: titled, attended, and one tap from recording.
Calendar sync
Connect Apple Calendar or Google; events become scheduled meetings in talat.
Attendee extraction
Pulls attendees in and matches them to known speakers by email address.
Meeting-URL detection
Finds Zoom, Teams, Meet and Webex links in events so recording can auto-start.
Pre-meeting heads-up
A notification before a call begins, with a one-tap join action.
Platform
A good citizen on your desktop.
Native on macOS and Windows, fast to reach, light on resources, and careful never to interrupt a recording.
macOS & Windows
Native on both, with menu-bar / tray presence and a system-wide recording hotkey.
Command palette
⌘K to search meetings and transcript segments, or start a recording from anywhere.
Tunable notifications
Unobtrusive notices for recordings, calls, meeting starts and updates, all fully configurable.
Deferred auto-update
Updates install on restart, so they never interrupt a recording or revoke permissions mid-session.
No account
A 10-hour free trial, then a one-time purchase. No account, ever.
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