If you've just downloaded talat, read what to expect on your first launch. If anything is missing from this documentation or could be clearer at all, please get in touch.
Getting started
- First launch
The choices you'll make on first launch (permissions, auto-detection, speaker recognition, summarisation) and what they mean.
- Permissions
Microphone and system audio access on Mac and Windows.
Recordings
- Record a meeting
The ways talat starts a recording: auto-detection, manual, hotkey.
- End a meeting
Auto-stop, titles, summaries, exports.
- Recording status
How talat signals an active recording from the menu bar or tray, plus the optional elapsed-time label.
- Identify speakers
How talat tells voices apart, names speakers, and recognises them in future meetings.
- Edit a meeting
Edit the title, transcript, and summary of a finished meeting.
- Reorganise meetings
Split one meeting into two, or merge two meetings into one, when talat captured them wrong.
- Exports
Export meetings as Markdown or PDF, manually or automatically into a folder of your choice.
Settings
- Audio recordings
Choose which microphone talat records from, whether to save audio alongside transcripts, and how long recordings are kept.
- Transcription
Choose the transcription model, live preview, speaker identification.
- Summaries
Turn summarisation on or off, pick a local or cloud provider, set your own prompt.
- Notifications
Control which events talat notifies you about, and how long notifications stay on screen.
- Appearance
Color scheme, hiding talat from the Dock and app switcher, UI scale.
- General
Launch at login and other small preferences.
Integrations
- Obsidian
Save talat meeting transcripts and summaries into your Obsidian vault automatically.
- Webhook
Push finished meetings to any HTTP endpoint as Markdown or structured JSON, with auth and retry.
- MCP server
Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients to your local meeting data.
