If you've just downloaded talat, read what to expect on your first launch. If anything is missing from this documentation or could be clearer at all, please get in touch.

Getting started

• First launch
  The choices you'll make on first launch (permissions, auto-detection, speaker recognition, summarisation) and what they mean.

• Permissions
  Microphone and system audio access on Mac and Windows.

Recordings

• Record a meeting
  The ways talat starts a recording: auto-detection, manual, hotkey.

• End a meeting
  Auto-stop, titles, summaries, exports.

• Recording status
  How talat signals an active recording from the menu bar or tray, plus the optional elapsed-time label.

• Identify speakers
  How talat tells voices apart, names speakers, and recognises them in future meetings.

• Edit a meeting
  Edit the title, transcript, and summary of a finished meeting.

• Reorganise meetings
  Split one meeting into two, or merge two meetings into one, when talat captured them wrong.

• Exports
  Export meetings as Markdown or PDF, manually or automatically into a folder of your choice.

Settings

• Audio recordings
  Choose which microphone talat records from, whether to save audio alongside transcripts, and how long recordings are kept.

• Transcription
  Choose the transcription model, live preview, speaker identification.

• Summaries
  Turn summarisation on or off, pick a local or cloud provider, set your own prompt.

• Notifications
  Control which events talat notifies you about, and how long notifications stay on screen.

• Appearance
  Color scheme, hiding talat from the Dock and app switcher, UI scale.

• General
  Launch at login and other small preferences.

Integrations

• Obsidian
  Save talat meeting transcripts and summaries into your Obsidian vault automatically.

• Webhook
  Push finished meetings to any HTTP endpoint as Markdown or structured JSON, with auth and retry.

• MCP server
  Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and other MCP clients to your local meeting data.