About Owl Meeting
Owl Meeting is a local-first meeting transcription application for Windows that helps people record, recognize, review, translate, and export speech on their own computer.
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Why Owl Meeting exists
Meetings, interviews, and lectures often contain information that should not be sent to an unknown cloud service. Owl Meeting is designed to provide a more transparent workflow in which users choose the recognition model, data location, and downstream AI processing.
The product supports both live use and careful post-meeting review. Users can read changing text during a meeting, process existing audio or video, correct timing and speaker labels, and export files for continued work.
Workflows covered by the product
- Recognize microphone, system audio, or dual audio sources in real time
- Transcribe audio and video files locally on Windows
- Separate speakers and optionally match known speakers after samples are configured
- Review text, timestamps, and speaker labels, then export text, CSV, or SRT
- Connect local LLM workflows such as Ollama for translation and text processing
Local-first is a boundary, not a vague promise
When a user selects a local recognition model and a local Ollama service, speech recognition and related AI processing can run on the device. The actual data path still depends on the model, service address, and task configuration selected by the user.
If a user configures an external or cloud service, data may leave the device under that service's terms. Our documentation aims to distinguish local capabilities, optional network steps, and third-party conditions that users need to verify.
Continue with Owl Meeting
Use the documentation for detailed setup instructions, or contact the team with a question or correction.