Stopping a recording
A recording can end in four ways: auto-stop when talat detects the end of the call, Stop now in the title bar’s recording menu, Stop recording in the menu-bar / tray icon, or the global hotkey (if set).
Auto-stop grace period
Auto-stop applies to recordings talat started on its own, to ones you started from a talat notification for a call, and to calls you join with Join and record. Each is tied to one app: the one in the call. Recordings you start yourself with the record button or a shortcut run until you stop them, and so does a recording talat resumes after a crash or an update.
When the app the call is in stops using the microphone, talat waits for a short grace period before stopping, in case you rejoin. Auto-stop grace period in Settings → Recording behaviour sets it, from 0 (no grace period) to 30 seconds. If the same app uses the microphone again within the grace period, it stays one recording.
If the app lets go for the first time before a conversation has started, talat waits 10 seconds, or the grace period if that is longer. Zoom briefly lets go of the microphone when it lets you in from a waiting room.
A call in a different app is not part of the recording. When the first call ends, the recording stops, and the other call gets its own recording, a notification asking first, or nothing, depending on that app’s setting in Settings → Meeting apps.
Turning off Automatically stop recording when a call ends in Settings → Recording behaviour stops this for recordings that start after you change it. They then only stop when you click Stop now, use the global hotkey, or stop from the menu-bar / tray icon.
Change what ends a recording
While a recording runs, the title bar shows what ends it: Ends with call, Waiting for the call’s app, or Until you stop. When the call’s app stops using the microphone it reads Stopping… for the grace period. A small dot on it means an app on the microphone could end this recording.
On the recording’s page, click it to open the recording menu, which lists the apps using the microphone. Anywhere else in talat, the click takes you back to the recording. Pick an app and the recording stops when that app stops using the microphone, after the grace period. Pick None, I’ll stop it and it runs until you stop it. This works for any recording, including ones you started yourself, and talat never changes it on its own. Stop now at the bottom of the menu ends the recording straight away.
If the call is in an app talat doesn’t recognise, the menu says an unknown app is using the microphone. Click Add it to open Settings → Meeting apps, where unknown apps are listed first. Adding the app there links the recording to it.
Notes: title, summary, action points, chapters
The transcript is already complete when a recording stops. talat transcribes in real time, so there’s no post-recording transcription step.
If summarisation is enabled, talat then reads the transcript in the background and writes a title, a summary, a set of action points, and chapters that break the meeting into topics. The transcript is usable immediately; the rest appear on the meeting as they’re ready. The action points land on the meeting’s Actions tab and the chapters show as a ribbon on the playback bar.
Which model does this (local or cloud), and whether action points and chapters are generated at all, is set on the summaries page. Both are on by default. talat only ever generates them once, so re-running a summary never overwrites edits you’ve made.
Post-meeting actions
Folder exports and webhooks with Auto-export turned on fire once the title and summary are in place, so whatever they send always contains the final transcript and summary. Actions without it wait for you to send a meeting by hand.