Record and summarize meetings
Beyond dictation, wispa records long meetings from your mic and the app audio, transcribes them, labels who spoke, and writes an AI summary you can export.
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wispa is not only for short dictation. It can record a full meeting, transcribe the whole thing, mark who said what, and hand you an AI summary, so a call turns into notes without you typing.
How meeting recording works
You record with a Meeting mode. wispa captures long-form audio, transcribes it in chunks so even long calls finish cleanly, and then an LLM writes a summary and a title. Each recording is kept in a separate Meetings list, apart from your short dictation history.
Record a meeting
- Create a mode from the Meeting template, or set an existing mode's source to mic, system or both.
- Grant Screen Recording permission once if you want system audio; wispa opens the right settings pane for you.
- Start the meeting recording, run your call, and stop when you are done. wispa transcribes and summarizes it.
- Open the meeting from the Meetings list to read the transcript, summary and, if enabled, the speaker labels.
Label who said what
Turn on diarization and add a Deepgram key, and wispa marks each turn with a speaker, so the transcript reads as a real conversation. You can rename the speakers afterwards. Without a Deepgram key the meeting still transcribes, just as one unlabelled block of text.
Summaries and your meetings library
Every meeting gets an AI summary and auto title, condensed in stages for very long calls. You can re-summarize, re-transcribe, rename, export or delete a meeting later, and even turn an existing audio file into a meeting. The audio is saved by default to $HOME/Documents/wispa/Meetings/, and the Meetings list holds your recent meetings separate from dictation.
FAQ
Questions and answers
Can wispa record the other people on a call, not just me?
Yes. Set the meeting source to system or both, and grant Screen Recording permission. wispa then captures the audio your apps play, which includes everyone on the call, alongside your microphone.
Do I need a cloud key to record a meeting?
Not to record and transcribe with a local model. Speaker labels need a Deepgram key, and the AI summary needs a cleanup provider, which can be a cloud key or a local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
Where are my meeting recordings stored?
In the Meetings list inside wispa, and the audio is saved by default under $HOME/Documents/wispa/Meetings/. Meetings are kept separate from your short dictation history, and you can export or delete any of them.