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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 AG342 »

Myrmornis wrote: post #90
AG342 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 suggesti…

Please do drop me a line on hello@traceapp.info and let's chat!

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

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Post by jamesbagley849 »

AG342 wrote: post #51
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…

Crash recovery is definitely something that I want to spend a bit more time on. I'm not entirely sure how Trace handles crashing right in the middle of a recording, so I'm going to put a bit of time aside in the next few days to properly explore this and see if I can come up with an elegant solution to it. I think I've got the other two bits covered. I pushed an update yesterday that adds active echo cancellation so…

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

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Post by fandorin »

AG342 wrote: post #59
fandorin wrote: post #57

looks great! and good that you decided on the one-time fee instead of a subscription. side question: what did you use to create these videos/gifs on the homepage that shows the app? They look really good!

Appreciate it, thanks. They’re just Vue components with CSS animations. Drop me an email and I’ll send you the code. hello@traceapp.info

thanks! will do

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

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Post by kexelion »

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…

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

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Post by AG342 »

transitKnox wrote: post #96

Would it be hard to add a summarization feature? Or put an executive overview at the top of the transcript?

It wouldn't be too difficult, but I'd be hesitant to do it for fear of bloating what Trace was designed to do. Trace is built to do transcription and hand you clean markdown (which you can paste into whatever LLM you prefer for a summary). Many alternative solutions in this space are bolting on lots of "AI frills", which, in my experience, is what makes them start to feel heavy.
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