talat records two audio streams, your microphone and your system audio. System audio covers every app on every output. Which microphone it records from lives under Settings → Audio; whether it keeps the audio afterwards, and for how long, lives under Settings → Recording behaviour. Transcripts are always kept, whatever you choose here.
Choosing a microphone
Under Settings → Audio:
- Microphone. Which input captures your voice. Leave it on the system default to follow whatever the operating system is using, or pin a specific device (a USB mic, an interface, a headset).
- Show all audio devices. Reveals virtual and aggregate microphones, for uncommon setups. Off by default to keep the list short.
Changes take effect at the next recording.
Keeping the audio
Under Settings → Recording behaviour:
When Record audio is on, talat saves the meeting audio to disk alongside the transcript, so you can play it back later from the meeting view. Turn it off to keep only the transcript and save disk space. Existing audio from past meetings isn’t affected by the toggle.
Audio storage
Auto-delete recordings after sets how long talat keeps the audio for a meeting before deleting it automatically. Only the audio file is removed; the transcript and the meeting itself stay.
- 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year. Audio older than the chosen window is deleted.
- Never. Audio is never deleted automatically. Disk usage grows over time, so pick this only if you actively need the audio for every meeting.
The cleanup runs in the background once a day, so nothing is deleted the instant you change the setting. The default is 30 days: long enough to revisit a recent meeting, short enough that disk usage stays bounded.