Introduction

Getting started

• First launch

  The choices you'll make on first launch (permissions, auto-detection, speaker recognition, summarisation) and what they mean.

• Permissions

  Microphone and system audio access on Mac and Windows.

Recordings

• Record a meeting

  The ways talat starts a recording: auto-detection, manual, hotkey.

• Import a file

  Transcribe an existing audio or video file locally, with the same models and notes as a live meeting.

• In-meeting screenshots

  Capture what's on the shared screen with a keystroke; talat anchors it in the transcript and reads its text.

• End a meeting

  Auto-stop, titles, summaries, exports.

• Recording status

  How talat signals an active recording from the menu bar or tray, plus the optional elapsed-time label.

• Identify speakers

  How talat tells voices apart, names speakers, and recognises them in future meetings.

• Edit a meeting

  Edit the title, transcript, and summary of a finished meeting.

• Reorganise meetings

  Split one meeting into two, or merge two meetings into one, when talat captured them wrong.

• Search

  Find anything with the command palette, or search within a single meeting's transcript.

• Exports

  Export meetings as Markdown or PDF, manually or automatically into a folder of your choice.

Dictation

• Dictation

  System-wide voice-to-text on the same on-device engine as your meetings: hotkey, cleanup, replacements, auto-paste.

Settings

• Audio recordings

  Choose which microphone talat records from, whether to save audio alongside transcripts, and how long recordings are kept.

• Transcription

  Tune vocabulary boost and speaker identification.

• Summaries

  Turn summarisation on or off, pick a local or cloud provider, set your own prompt.

• Notifications

  Control which events talat notifies you about, and how long notifications stay on screen.

• General

  Startup and appearance: launch at login, colour scheme, UI scale, the sidebar, the Dock, and the menu-bar timer.

Integrations

• Calendar

  Connect Apple or Google calendars so scheduled meetings are titled, attended, and ready to record.

• Obsidian

  Save talat meeting transcripts and summaries into your Obsidian vault automatically.

• Webhook

  Push finished meetings to any HTTP endpoint as Markdown or structured JSON, with auth and retry.

• MCP server

  Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients to your local meeting data.