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Meeting records a call as two independent channels — your microphone and the system loopback — transcribes both into one session, and writes the meeting up from the transcript, your own notes, and a template. It is a separate recording service, not a fourth mode: it shares only the speech-to-text transcriber with Dictation.
Meeting is a Windows desktop capability. System-audio capture is not ported to the macOS beta.
In everyday terms: you join a call as usual, SpeechKit listens to both sides in the background, and afterwards you get a written summary you can read, search and copy. It records what is said, not a recording you can play back, because audio itself is never kept.

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Before you start

  • Use the Windows desktop client. See Install on Windows.
  • Allow SpeechKit to use your microphone. If you have not set up your microphone yet, see Set up hotkeys, microphone and language.
  • Make sure no other SpeechKit mode is using the microphone. Only one capture can hold it at a time.
  • If you want everything to stay on your computer, check your privacy scope first. See Privacy settings.

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What a meeting produces

  • A transcript with both channels, labelled by capture channel. Channel labels say which side of the call a line came from; they are not identification of every remote speaker.
  • Your own notes, reproduced verbatim in the write-up.
  • A durable Meeting Review: a five-sentence executive brief, action items, and a body that cites the transcript it came from.
  • Reviews in English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, and Arabic.
Audio is never persisted. The transcript, notes, and review are what remain, and Retention Scope decides how long.

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Start and finish a recording

  1. Start a meeting from the desktop client, or let call detection offer one when you accept a call. Detection is a suggestion you accept, not an automatic recording.
  2. A compact transparent overlay shows capture health and controls during the call, and can unfold for notes.
  3. Rolling summaries run in batches while capture continues, so a long call does not wait until the end to be digested.
  4. SpeechKit stops shortly after the calling application releases the microphone, and notifies you when the review is ready or why it failed. A recording you started by hand is never stopped automatically.
What to expect after each step: after you start, the overlay shows that capture is running. During the call, the transcript grows and rolling summaries appear in batches. After the call ends, SpeechKit tells you when the review is ready or why it could not be made, and the meeting shows up in the meeting list. Exactly one capture holds the microphone at a time. Starting Dictation, Assist, or Voice Agent while a meeting records is refused rather than silently taking the device.

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Screen snapshots

Press Ctrl+Alt+S during a meeting to capture a chosen window or the monitor under the cursor. Snapshots appear as markers in the transcript timeline, are cited in the generated review, and briefly preview in the meeting pill so you can confirm the right window was captured. No image leaves the device.

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Find and export

The meeting list groups sessions by when they happened. Search covers titles, transcripts, notes, and write-ups. Notes render as formatted Markdown, and the complete write-up offers Copy Markdown and Save .md.

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Review generation

The local path needs no cloud credentials: the bundled local model generates the review on the device. GitHub Copilot is an optional review-generation provider behind a separate, revocable transcript-processing grant. Export connectors and cloud review providers are unavailable under the local network only and this device only Network Scopes. A fresh install configures no connector, so nothing leaves the machine until you choose it.

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If something goes wrong

  • The meeting will not start. Another SpeechKit mode may be holding the microphone. Finish or stop Dictation, Assist or the Voice Agent, then start the meeting again. See also Fix common problems.
  • There is no transcript, or only one side of the call. Check the microphone as described in Set up hotkeys, microphone and language. Meeting records your microphone and the system sound as two channels; if only the microphone is selected, the other side of the call is not captured.
  • No review appears. The notification names the reason. A review needs a review provider: the bundled local model works without an account, and a cloud provider is unavailable under the local network only and this device only scopes. See Work offline with local models and Privacy settings.
  • Detection offered nothing. Call detection is a suggestion, not a promise. Start the meeting from the desktop client instead.
  • You are on a Mac. Meeting is not available on the macOS beta. See Install on macOS.
  • Still stuck. See Fix common problems and Update or uninstall SpeechKit to make sure you are on the current version.

Install on Windows

Meeting ships with the Windows desktop client.

Modes and data paths

See how provider choice and the two privacy scopes work.