Use cases / Researchers

Interviews,
transcribed offline.

Record or import. Transcribe, search, and quote.

UX researchers, journalists, and academics interview people who trusted them with their words. MeetingDebrief transcribes those interviews on your own computer, in more than 50 languages, and keeps a searchable record of the whole study.

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The problem

Transcription is the slowest part of research.

An hour of interview takes several hours to transcribe by hand. Paying a service to do it means uploading recordings of people who agreed to talk to you, not to a vendor.

Then the transcripts sit in separate documents, and finding the quote you remember takes longer than it should.

How it works for you

01

Record or import the interview

Record remote interviews from any call app, in-person sessions with just the microphone, or drop in files from a recorder or phone: MP3, WAV, M4A, and more.

02

Get a transcript you can correct

Transcripts are produced on your machine, with timestamps and Me or Other labels. Fix a misheard word in place and MeetingDebrief offers to remember the correction.

03

Analyze and write it up

Ask each interview questions with cited answers, search across all of them, and dictate your observations into your notes or draft as they occur to you.

What you get

50+ languages

Automatic language detection for meetings and imports. When detection guesses wrong, re-transcribe with the language forced.

Audio file import

Bring recordings from other devices and apps. They are converted, transcribed, and summarized like any other session.

Editable transcripts

Correct any line in place. Edits are saved, searchable, and written through to the Markdown export.

Vocabulary

Names, places, and field-specific terms, taught once. Let MeetingDebrief suggest terms it found in an interview.

Search every interview

Find a quote across a whole study. Tags and folders keep projects and participants apart.

Sources stay on your device

Audio and transcripts are processed and stored locally, and everything works offline after setup. Useful when participants were promised discretion.

A transcript with timestamps you can trust.

Click a line to hear it. Speaker labels separate your questions from the answers when you record both sides of a call.

Teach it the words your field uses.

Vocabulary primes the transcriber, corrects saved transcripts, and explains your terms to the model that writes summaries and answers questions.

A day with MeetingDebrief

  1. 10:00

    Remote interview with a participant in Lisbon. You record the call and keep your eyes on them.

  2. 11:10

    Language detection read Portuguese correctly. One product name came out wrong; you fix it once and add it to Vocabulary.

  3. 13:00

    You import yesterday's in-person session from your phone as an M4A file.

  4. 15:30

    Synthesis. You search all interviews for "onboarding" and ask each one what frustrated the participant most.

  5. 16:15

    You dictate the first draft of your findings, quoting timestamps as you go.

FAQ

Which languages are supported?
Meetings and imported files can be transcribed in more than 50 languages using Whisper, or 25 languages with Parakeet. Dictation uses Parakeet, which covers 25 languages including English and Dutch.
Can I transcribe recordings I made elsewhere?
Yes. Import MP3, WAV, M4A, and other audio files. MeetingDebrief converts, transcribes, and summarizes them on your device.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. After downloading the models and activating your license, recording, transcription, summaries, chat, and dictation all work offline.
Can I export transcripts?
Session Mirror writes every transcript and summary to Markdown files on disk, ready for Obsidian, Notion, or your analysis tools. You can also copy any transcript with timestamps and speaker labels.

Transcribe your next interview without uploading it.

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