So this wouldn't work in a web app, only a desktop app?
I guess that leaves electron and tauri?
Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
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Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#42Pardon my ignorance, but is recording a call without informing the other participants considered bad practice? Congrats on the launch! :tada:
It's not just bad practice, it's illegal in many countries. It is in France for instance - but it's not like you can actively prevent it
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#4370 cents per hour is a mountain of fees... basically a $1 per meeting. Sheesh.
The median salary in the US is $29/hour.
By definition a one hour meeting has at least two people in it; often more. So two median guys talking for an hour costs ~$60. The meeting the you really want transcripts for often contain more than one person; and often involve people earning more than the median. I'd happily ad $1 to every single one of my meetings if they get more productive.
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#44Our meetings often involve a mix of onsite and offsite employees. Typical setup might be CEO + CTO + a VP in a room, connected as a single zoom client to the call (either of these 3 guys depending on who got in the meeting room first), then few additional people joining remotely from home each on their own zoom instance. The guys on the meeting room are using a dedicated camera in the meeting room that captures the entire room, and has all participants in sight.
Is this a setup you are trying to address; how are you able to recognize speakers in this configuration ?
Most transcript system we have tried bundle everything that is said by the onsite people as a single entity which pretty much destroys the value of the transcript; especially if people in that room disagree with each other; reading the transcript makes it feel that the onsite guys is very schizophrenic
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#45> we support 0-day retention, and we don’t train models on customer data.
Checks out the website[1]:
> By default, all media associated with a recording is retained indefinitely. If needed, you can request early deletion of this data at any time via our API.
Data shared with 25 "subprocessors", some of who also retain data indefinitely. Yikes!
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#46> we support 0-day retention, and we don’t train models on customer data. Checks out the website[1]: > By default, all media associated with a recording is retained indefinitely. If needed, you can request early deletion of this data at any time via our API. Data shared with 25 "subprocessors", some of who also retain data indefinitely. Yikes! [1]: https://security.recall.ai/
There's no contradiction. One statement is about the default, the other is about the possibility.
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#47> we support 0-day retention, and we don’t train models on customer data. Checks out the website[1]: > By default, all media associated with a recording is retained indefinitely. If needed, you can request early deletion of this data at any time via our API. Data shared with 25 "subprocessors", some of who also retain data indefinitely. Yikes! [1]: https://security.recall.ai/
There's no contradiction. One statement is about the default, the other is about the possibility.
The contradiction is that some of those sub-processors retain data indefinitely[1], with no possibility of deletion.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-confronts...
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#4870 cents per hour is a mountain of fees... basically a $1 per meeting. Sheesh.
It is a lot but processing real time video and audio streams inherently consumes alot of CPU. So they may not be making as much profit on that price as you'd think. I run an open source alternative to Recall (for meeting bots), and our costs are about 8 cents per hour.
What is the open source project?
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#49Hi David and Amanda! Followed you guys from the very beginning, glad to see Recall.ai get so big!
Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts
#50I'm impressed with the desktop SDK demo video hosted by Nick. Very clever. I noticed he's using Emacs, and that got me thinking that maybe I could make a little capture template that invokes your service to transcript directly from org mode. :) - Adding this to the wood pile.