Free, local meeting transcription. Better than Granola, Fireflies & others

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Andrew Warner and Nick McDonald review Meetily, a free, local AI meeting note taker that keeps your transcripts private.

Andrew Warner and Nick McDonald take a hands-on look at Meetily, an open-source AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings entirely on your computer. They cover local transcription with Parakeet and Whisper, AI-generated meeting summaries, video transcription, offline privacy, speaker identification limitations, hardware requirements, and how to connect transcripts to AI agents for follow-up tasks. They also compare Meetily with cloud-based meeting note apps and discuss when a fully local workflow makes the most sense.

Links featured:

- The FREE version of Meetily: https://github.com/Zackriya-So....lutions/meetily/rele
- Meetily's (paid) hosted version: https://meetily.ai/
- Get the source code: https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily/

00:00 - Meetily Overview: A free local AI meeting note taker without meeting bots.
00:45 - Local Transcription: Keep audio and transcripts entirely on your computer.
01:39 - AI Agent Workflows: Store transcripts locally for future AI automation.
02:06 - Parakeet vs Whisper: Compare transcription models and hardware needs.
03:27 - AI Summaries: Generate concise meeting summaries with local models.
04:12 - Video Transcription: Create transcripts from existing video files.
04:39 - Speaker Identification: Current limitations and missing speaker labels.
05:24 - Live Transcription: See how Meetily performs during a real conversation.
07:12 - Cross-App Support: Record meetings from Zoom, FaceTime, Slack, Discord, and more.
08:06 - Open Source Review: Pros, limitations, pricing, and GitHub access.

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