I'm making my own, for personal use. I did a survey of many and they all (that I could find) skip the fundamentals.

The major issues that I've run into:

- Crash recovery. Most of these apps are incredibly buggy and crash all the time, taking the recorded audio with them. Macwhisper is incredibly bad at this.

- Disk space. Many of these apps save wav files to disk. After a few hours of meetings, you may end up with gigabytes eaten.

- Microphone bleed. People don't always use headphones, the system mic will pick up the speaker sounds, causing duplicate (approximately) transcriptions.

I've yet to find a solution that handles all these correctly, let alone having high quality transcriptions.

Anyway, most of these apps are built around https://github.com/FluidInference/FluidAudio, if anyone is curious. Their readme has a big list of similar apps as well.

Due to audio quality, transcription sometimes produces garbled output or understands something wrong. FluidVoice offers the option to use a LLM to „interpret“ the text to rescue garbled audio through context. Do you also plan to support something like this? This would be a great feature!

What's your diarization pipeline? Pyannote?

I'd taken a different approach that used a LLM clean-up pass to summarize and progressively compress the transcript for ultra-long content, but I like the idea of targeted "pay attention here" flags.

I just purchased it. What's the best way to give you feedback? (Do you want any?)

From the top of my head: - will the mic switch automatically when I am at my office? Or do I have to change settings every time? Maybe a preference of what's available + auto switch would be good. - I personally don't need the hot key. Menu bar icon would be fine. - Download the model is a long process. Put it into the installer, not into the bar on the bottom - Speaker correction would be amazing. If it could "Learn" the speakers based on voice. - Overall neat app. Good animations and UX

    **Speaker 1** [00:00] What if I fell to the floor?
    **Microphone** [00:02] Yes, this is Phil, I'm just speaking, this should be         my voice, and there's music in the
    **Speaker 1** [00:05] Couldn't tell this anymore

- record and separate two sides of the conversation

- save meetings in a simple transcription format in a local folder

- connect with my calendar (Outlook, Google Calendar) and name meeting transcripts accordingly

- for recurring meetings, append rather than create a new transcript

- let me label speaker voices and recognise those voices across different meetings

A tool that did all this and then ALSO built a knowledge base to let me RAG query my meetings would be the holy grail for me.

https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap

I would be more willing to purchase if it was open source and I could build from source to try it first.

Minor complaint is that it steals Cmd-Shift-P (Firefox Private Browsing shortcut) by default.

Easy to change in the UI though, so no big deal.