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Meeting Recording

Starting a meeting

  1. Open Voice Recorder Forge and click the Meetings tab.
  2. Optionally type a name in the Meeting Title field. If you leave it blank, the app generates a title automatically using the date and time.
  3. Click Start Meeting.

The recording indicator appears with a live duration counter. Audio capture begins immediately.

Pausing and resuming

You can pause a meeting without ending the session — useful if you need to take a private call or step away briefly.

  • Click Pause to pause recording.
  • Click Resume to continue.

Paused time is excluded from the recorded audio and transcript. The session timer continues running so you can see total elapsed meeting time.

Stopping the meeting

Click Stop Meeting to end the session. The following happens automatically:

  1. Audio recording stops and the file is saved.
  2. Transcription begins via the OpenAI Whisper API.
  3. Once complete, the transcript is stored in the local database.
  4. The meeting entry appears in the meeting list with its title, date, and duration.

Viewing past meetings

All recorded meetings are listed chronologically in the Meetings tab. Each entry shows:

  • Meeting title
  • Recording date and time
  • Duration
  • First 150 characters of the transcript as a preview

Click any entry to view the full transcript.

Meeting data

Each meeting is stored locally with the following information:

| Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | ID | Auto-generated unique identifier | | Title | Name you entered, or auto-generated | | Start time | When recording began | | Duration | Total recorded audio length | | Transcript | Full text from Whisper | | Notes | AI-enhanced notes (if enhancement has been run) | | Audio file | Path to the .webm file |

Audio files are stored at:

[UserData]/meetings/[meetingId]-[timestamp].webm

System audio in meetings

By default, only your microphone is recorded. To also capture audio from other applications (a video call, a presentation), configure system audio capture. See Audio Settings for platform-specific setup.

Deleting meetings

Meeting data can be removed directly from the database at [UserData]/app.db. A delete option in the UI is planned for a future release.