MeetingScribe

What MeetingScribe is

MeetingScribe is a free, open-source desktop tool for creating meeting notes from Google Meet and Zoom calls. It captures microphone and system audio, and a small faster-whisper model drafts a transcript locally on the CPU while a meeting is underway. A local quantized language model can produce summaries and decisions; an extractive fallback works without API keys. The tool supports editable transcripts and notes, action items, templates, playback, highlights, comments, chapters, and talk-time analytics. Full-text search covers past meetings, and users can ask questions across meetings with citations. Notes can be exported in Markdown, plain text, SRT/VTT, HTML, or JSON. Webhooks can send notes to Slack, Discord, Notion, or Zapier. The project describes its storage as local-first, keeping recordings, notes, and database files in a configurable local directory. Batch processing can optionally send audio to a configured Cornell GPU cluster, with local CPU processing as a fallback. Live speaker labels currently distinguish only “Me” and “Others”; fuller diarization runs in the batch pass.