Real-Time Transcription
Capture the meeting while it’s happening
MeetNote’s live notes experience is built for real meetings, not post-meeting cleanup. As audio streams in, transcript lines appear in real time and settle into finalized text as speech completes, so your notes keep up with the conversation instead of lagging behind it.
You’re not just watching text scroll by. You can follow the timeline, pin key moments, clean up lines, and navigate playback directly from transcript timestamps while the session is active.
Stay Present Without Staring at a Keyboard
The goal of live notes is not to give you another screen to stare at. It is to remove pressure from manual note-taking so you can actually look at the people you’re talking to.
In practice, live transcription lets you:
- Keep your phone flat on the table, screen dimmed or at the side.
- Look up, listen, and contribute while MeetNote does the capturing.
- Glance down occasionally to confirm that important points are being recognized.
- Let quieter participants see that their input is being taken seriously and recorded.
You get the benefit of having written notes without sacrificing eye contact and human conversation.
Follow live notes in real time without losing your place
Live transcription in MeetNote supports both focus and flexibility:
- Real-time transcript updates with in-progress and finalized lines
- Timeline-aware transcript display with tappable timestamps
- Auto-scroll when you want to follow the newest line
- Manual scroll mode when you want to review earlier context
- Built-in transcript search, including pinned-line filtering
This means you can stay in “live capture mode” during fast conversations, then immediately switch to review mode without leaving the same screen.
Edit and control the transcript as you go
Live notes are not write-once output. You can actively shape them while you work:
- Pin important lines for quick reference
- Delete the last line when needed
- Enter edit mode for line-by-line transcript corrections
- Adjust line timestamps in edit workflows
- Save transcript changes directly
- Download transcript as a text file
In practice, this gives teams a much cleaner first-pass record before they ever reach post-meeting refinement.
Use voice commands for hands-free control
MeetNote supports voice-command actions tied to live transcription workflows, including:
- Add bookmark / pin
- Delete last line
- Restart recording
- Cancel recording
- End meeting
Voice commands are gated by runtime controls and parsed conservatively (including wake-word style patterns) to reduce accidental triggers. In short: useful when you need speed, but with safeguards so command handling doesn’t become chaos.
Handle language and translation with clear constraints
Language controls in live notes are practical and explicit:
- Live language behavior is controlled in meeting AI settings
- Translation language management is slot-based (up to 3 target slots)
- Existing translations can be switched quickly once available
- Translation availability depends on team-level feature access and usage limits
- Language switching for transcript translation is intentionally constrained during active recording
So teams can work multilingual when enabled, while still keeping live capture stable during recording.
Built for unstable networks and long sessions
Real meetings don’t happen in perfect conditions. The live transcription flow includes resilience behavior such as:
- Session health monitoring
- Reconnect attempts with retry/backoff behavior
- Graceful stop/finalization paths to capture final transcript output
- Local persistence plus sync-aware save behavior
That reliability focus is exactly what makes “live notes” usable in day-to-day work, not just demos.
Optional meeting AI chat on top of live notes
MeetNote also supports an in-panel meeting AI chat workflow on top of transcript content, with setup requirements enforced in-app (for example, chat settings/model readiness and transcript readiness checks). It’s there when teams want conversational analysis during or after capture—without pretending to be always-on by default.
