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Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by victorbjorklund »

blopker wrote: post #17

Nice! I really like how many variations on this idea are coming out. MacWhisper used to be great, but is kinda of a buggy mess now. I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the fundamentals. The major issues that I've run into: - Crash recovery. Most of these apps are incredibly buggy and crash all the time, taking the recorded audio with them. Macwhisper is in…

Handy works good with crash recovery (mostly from me turning off the computer mid-recording because I forgot about the recording)

Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by AG342 »

shireboy wrote: post #81

I tried this but it took over my mic and people couldnt hear me on teams call until I turned it off. Nice idea but needs to share the mic w teams to be useful for me. Not sure if it’s teams fault or trace fault but either way…

Someone else has also reported this, which is not coincidental… Have you tried this with other applications too to see if it’s a teams-specific issue?

I’ll take a look as my top priority.

Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by AG342 »

yilugurlu wrote: post #85

Looks awesome, I just bought. I'd love to see Office/Teams Calendar integration. Good luck!

Thanks. Trace integrates with your Mac calendar, so if you’ve signed into your accounts with those it will pick them up. No support currently for direct Teams/Exchange integration but I’ll add it to the list.

Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by AG342 »

shireboy wrote: post #81

I tried this but it took over my mic and people couldnt hear me on teams call until I turned it off. Nice idea but needs to share the mic w teams to be useful for me. Not sure if it’s teams fault or trace fault but either way…

Looks like echo cancellation is to blame here. I'm working on a more permanent fix but for now try turning off "Cancel system audio from the microphone" to see if that helps.

Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by scosman »

AG342 wrote: post #52
scosman wrote: post #48

Those transcription times are fast fast. What model/library do you use?

Trace has two engines that you can choose from. The fast one uses NVIDIA's Parakeet-TDT 0.6b v3 model run through FluidAudio, which surprised me with how fast it was. There is also an accurate engine, which uses Whisper large-v3-turbo via WhisperKit, which is slower but holds up better on accents and jargon.

ahh yes. I'm using Whisper v3 turbo via WhisperKit as well. Will play with parakeet

Re: Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call

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Post by Myrmornis »

AG342 wrote: post #39
Myrmornis wrote: post #32

I will be happy to spend £10 on this. One feature question though -- does it continue transcribing the meeting even if I've turned my volume down / muted it?

It does indeed. Trace will record your system audio regardless of your speaker volume. You do have the option to mute your own mic temporarily though, via a button on the “pill” or a global keyboard shortcut.

Thanks. I've bought it and started using it; it looks great. I was previously using Hyprnote which did work well, but yours appears to fit my "I just want markdown" case better and to generally be more polished.

I'll be wanting to find a good workflow to get the markdown transcripts into a git repo with file names that define a suitable sort order and also indicate what the meeting was. So would welcome your suggestions there. Not blocked of course, yo umake it easy to copy from clipboard or from the disk location and rename, but might be nice to have more control about where and how the .md lands.

I might email the support address on the off-chance that you're happy to have support/feature conversations like this. Thanks!

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