Meeting transcription on your Mac means exactly that: oto records and transcribes the whole meeting on your machine, and nothing gets uploaded. Long-Form Meeting Recording captures your mic and the meeting audio as two echo-cancelled streams, then hands you a two-sided transcript once the call ends, your side and theirs kept apart.
Most meeting transcribers ship your calls to a server. oto keeps the recording, the processing, and the transcript on the Mac in front of you.
Your voice and the meeting audio are captured as separate streams, so the finished transcript keeps what you said apart from what the meeting said, instead of one long wall of text. It's clearest on one-on-one calls, where the other stream is a single person.
Echo-cancelled dual-stream capture means you can take the call on your Mac's speakers. oto records the meeting audio and your mic without the speakers bleeding back into your side of the transcript.
A two-hour recording shouldn't be one crash away from gone. If a long session is interrupted, oto recovers it, and the audio you captured stays yours.
Kick off a Long-Form Meeting Recording from the menu bar. oto sits quietly while you join the meeting in whatever app you use.
oto captures your mic and the meeting audio locally as you talk. No bot in the participant list, no "recording" banner from a third-party service.
Stop the session and get a two-sided transcript you can search in history and export as plain text, Markdown, or JSON.
oto records what your Mac hears, on your Mac. There's no cloud sync, no account, and it won't join calendar events for you. You start the recording, it does the rest. That trade is the point: your meetings never leave the machine.
oto splits your mic from the meeting audio, it does not tell individual speakers apart within the meeting side. On a group call with five people, the "meeting" stream is still one combined track. The split is cleanest on one-on-one calls, where your side is you and the other side is exactly one person.
No. Recording and transcription run on-device by default, with no account and no telemetry. Cloud engines exist only as an opt-in, bring-your-own-key option, and they're off by default.
No. The dual-stream capture is echo-cancelled, so you can run the call through your Mac's speakers and still get a clean, two-sided transcript with your voice and the meeting audio kept apart.
One $8 purchase, no subscription, no account, and a meeting transcript that never left your machine.
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