Olive Meeting Notes
A phone on the table, recording, then put away. When the meeting ends, Olive writes out what was said, works out who said it, and produces a transcript that can be fixed line by line. It exports to Word or PDF with the team's own letterhead, and the desktop app opens the same project files. Everything is worked out on our users' own devices, with no account and no server for any of it to sit on.
- Meetings
- Mobile and desktop
Coming to iOS, Android, and desktop.
Screenshots coming closer to release.
Record first, process afterwards
Nothing heavy runs while the meeting is happening. Olive captures clean audio and nothing else, so the recording is not competing with the work of transcribing it. The processing happens after the recording stops.
That ordering matters more than it sounds. A recorder that tries to transcribe live is a recorder that can drop audio when the room gets difficult, and the audio is the one thing that cannot be recreated afterwards.
A transcript that can actually be used
Every turn of the conversation is laid out and timestamped, so a half-remembered moment is findable. Olive separates the voices in the room, plays a short sample of each one, and applies the name it is given throughout. If it has run two people together, or split one person in two, that is a couple of taps to fix.
Every line is editable in place, because the people in the room know what was said and Olive was not there. Tapping a line plays that moment of the recording back.
Meetings held in two languages
If people in the room switch between languages, Olive notices. It puts an English version alongside anything that was not in English, and keeps what was actually said underneath it.
One project, on the phone and on the desktop
Olive is a mobile app and a desktop app that work on the same project files. Recording happens on the phone, because that is what is in the room. The same project then opens on the desktop for naming speakers, correcting the transcript, and exporting, because that work is faster on a full screen with a keyboard.
It stays on our users’ devices
There is no account and no password, and we do not run a server, so there is nowhere for a recording to go. Meeting rooms are where the confidential things get said, which is a strange place to point a microphone that uploads to somebody else’s cloud.
What comes out at the end
A document that can be sent: Word or PDF, in a choice of layouts, with the team’s own logo at the top. Automatic transcription makes mistakes, and names, numbers, jargon, and people talking over each other are where it slips most, so it wants reading through before it goes out. This is a tool for writing a meeting up quickly, not a certified verbatim record.
Status
In development for iOS, Android, and desktop.