Granola. Best meeting app I’ve used. I have a notepad that takes markup I can add myself and it intelligently fills in the notes I wrote.

eg. I put bullet points with something like “updates from Steve?” And do that for everyone during our check in. When the meeting ends it takes all their conversation in the transcript and fills in my markup with the notes.

I’ve attended meetings where I had zero participation and focus on doing something else during the meeting. When it’s over it gives me a detailed summary of the meeting. It felt like I had an assistant taking detailed, ordered notes for me. It’s almost like that scene from the movie Old School. Rodney Dangerfield sent his secretary to stenograph the lecture time so he didn’t have to attend and she gets called out by the professor. Felt just like that kind of transcribing.

Spellar.ai does a great job. There’s others out there for Mac but I like Spellar’s calendar integration.

Interestingly, their initial raison d’être was to help with English pronunciation and speaking speed, giving you real time feedback. They’ve downplayed this in recent releases, but the functionality is still there. Though, I’m a native English speaker and it always flagged me as pronouncing words incorrectly even though I’ve got little regional accent (I’ve been told this by others, not just my opinion. I had a speech therapist as a mother, hence little accent)

We do this at quillmeetings.com - the audio stays on your device and is transcribed by whisper. We also do speaker splitting and recognition with a combination of models. If you share or sync notes/meetings they are e2e encrypted.

FYI, the transcript-only product is free forever (it's local, so why not?), but generating AI notes, interpreting screenshots if you enable that, etc. are in the Pro plan and do require using a cloud API.

https://speechpulse.com does fully local audio transcription. The UI and settings are not the most intuitive, but it works fairly well and they are making constant updates.

As an additional note, Spellar does let you bring your own Open AI key but does not allow for purely local processing. You’ve still got to send the audio out for transcription and interpretation.

Also, I have no affiliation with Spellar, just a user.