Meetings
Record both sides of a call, or a conversation in the room, without a bot joining.
Meeting mode records your microphone and the audio your Mac plays, so you get both sides of a call. It does not record your screen. For that, use Video.
Nothing joins the call and there is no meeting link to share. It works the same with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack huddles and in-person conversations.
Can't record from your Mac? Send the Notetaker to a Google Meet or Teams call instead. It joins as a participant.
Tell people when you record them, and follow your organization's policy and the consent rules where you are.
Record a meeting
- Open the launcher with ⌘⇧Space and choose Meeting.
- Talk as usual. The bar shows how long you've been recording, and you can open it to see live captions.
- Choose stop when you're done.
Hearing the other side of a call needs the Screen Recording permission.
Live captions
Live captions are made on your Mac as people speak, and are on by default. Each line is labelled by where it came from: your microphone, or the call's audio. Turn them off under Settings → Live captions. They need the Speech Recognition permission.
Eavesy does not tell individual speakers apart. Everyone on the call's side shares one label.
After you stop
Without an account, the audio is saved in a folder named like
2026-06-15 Meeting recording, next to a notes.md you can write in.
When you're signed in, audio uploads in segments while you record, so a long meeting is not lost if your Mac restarts or the network drops. After you stop:
- a cloud transcript replaces the live captions, with lines marked You and Them, and
- a brief is written on top of it: a title, a short summary, decisions and action items.
The brief and transcript are written into the same folder as summary.md and
transcript.md. The folder keeps its original name even after the brief
suggests a better title.
Getting clean audio
- Eavesy records what your Mac is playing. If the call plays through a device you've muted, it won't be heard.
- Headphones are fine. The call's audio is recorded before it reaches them.
- In a room, the built-in microphone is usually enough. Make a short test recording before anything important.
Next
Work with the result
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