Transcription & Summarization
How do I record a meeting?
Hold Control+Space for ~1s (or click “Record a Meeting” in the menu bar panel). The meeting hub opens with a Start Recording button, a prep notes editor, and your recent meetings. Optionally add prep notes — attendees, agenda, or goals — or select a template to pre-fill them. Click Start Recording to begin.
During the recording, the hub stays open with two tabs:
- Prep — review or edit your prep notes at any time
- Assistant — live AI talking points and action items (updates as the conversation progresses)
Hold Control+Space again (or click Stop) to end the recording. The hub transitions through processing stages — saving, identifying speakers, attributing speakers, generating summary — then shows the results.
Does it work with Zoom / Google Meet / Teams?
Yes. Most AI notetakers join the call as a participant — a bot in the attendee list, a recording badge. MimicScribe captures system audio at the OS level via Core Audio Taps instead, so it works with any app that produces audio output — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, Slack, Discord. Speakers are still identified on-device, just without anything joining the call.
How does speaker identification work?
A speaker diarization model creates voice embeddings for each speaker segment. After a meeting, you can name speakers directly in the Transcript tab of the summary view — hover over a speaker label and click the profile icon to assign a name. Once named, MimicScribe stores that voice profile locally and matches it in future meetings. Speaker profiles are suggested when there is sufficient voice data (about 60 seconds of speech).
How do I name a speaker after a meeting?
In the Transcript tab of the summary view, hover over any speaker label (e.g., “Speaker 1”). A profile icon appears — click it to assign a name and save a voice profile. Named profiles are visible in Settings > Speaker Profiles.
Will it recognize the same person in future meetings?
Yes. Named speaker profiles are matched against new recordings using voice embeddings. Recognition improves as more voice samples are collected across meetings.
How do I delete a speaker profile?
Settings > Speaker Profiles — find the profile and click the trash icon. A confirmation dialog appears.
How do I customize what the summary includes?
Settings > Meeting Recording > Summary Template — edit the prompt that controls what the AI produces after a meeting. There’s a “Reset to Default” button if you want to go back.
How do I ask follow-up questions about a meeting?
After a meeting, the summary view has two tabs — Summary and Transcript — with a text input at the bottom for follow-up questions. Type a question or click the mic button to speak one. You can also tap Control+Space when no meeting is recording to recall the most recent meeting summary from today.
Where are meeting recordings saved?
Transcripts and summaries are stored in a local database at ~/Library/Application Support/app.mimicscribe/mimicscribe.db. If Save meeting audio is enabled (Settings > Meeting Recording), audio files are saved to ~/Documents/MimicScribe/Recordings/ at ~8 MB per hour.
How do I search across past meetings?
Open the Transcriptions window from the menu bar panel. Use the search bar to query across all meetings with natural language. AI-enriched search results appear at the top.