Glossary
Meeting transcription
Meeting transcription is the process of converting the spoken audio of a meeting into a written text record.
What it means
A transcript turns a recording you would have to replay into a document you can read, search, and quote. It can be done by a person typing while they listen, or by automatic speech recognition software that processes the audio. Most modern tools use speech recognition, then optionally add timestamps, speaker labels, and a summary.
Where the transcription runs matters. Cloud services upload your audio to a vendor's servers. On-device tools keep the audio and the transcript on your own machine.
How this relates to Autorec
After a recording finishes, Autorec transcribes the audio on your own computer using whisper.cpp and writes a plain-text transcript plus an SRT subtitle file next to the video. Nothing is uploaded, so the transcript of a confidential call never leaves your disk.
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