Building a privacy-focused transcription app in 24 Hours

Many of my colleagues have been using Granola or similar apps to transcribe and get highlights and summaries of all meetings. In meetings where people don’t need to look at their laptops, everyone is still always keeping their laptops a tiny bit open, either for some agent working or for recording/transcribing.

Apps like these record invisibly, no AI notekeeper is joining the actual Google Meet/Zoom/Teams meeting so you have no idea that this is going on. There is of course some privacy issues with this - people should ask permission or at least inform their colleagues that they are recording/transcribing the meeting! It can be uncomfortable not knowing if everything you said is being recorded without you knowing.