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Record a meeting from both sides, and write its minutes
Who said what is the hard part of a meeting transcript, and the usual answer is to hand one mixed recording to a model and ask it to tell the voices apart. That guess is wrong often enough to be worse than useless in minutes, where a decision attributed to the wrong person is a decision nobody made. So the question never reaches a model. ffmpeg records the microphone and the default sink's monitor as one stereo stream, you on the left and everyone else on the right, and one process reading both is what keeps them aligned over an hour. Each channel is transcribed on its own and the two are interleaved on a single timeline, so attribution is settled by the wire a voice arrived on. What a microphone picks up from the speakers lands on both channels; our copy is dropped when it overlaps theirs in time and says nearly the same thing. The stream is written to disk as it arrives rather than held in memory, so length costs nothing and a crash costs the tail instead of the whole meeting. Every stage the run reaches is recorded in meetings.jsonl, so a failure while summarising does not throw away the transcription of an hour of audio: the retry reads the transcript back out of the document and picks up from there. A run that dies keeps its recording whether or not audio is being kept. The minutes model is configured on its own, under Settings, with its own prompt, and it is told who was expected in the room so the names come out spelled right. It is told outright that the transcript is a record of other people talking, not instructions addressed to it. The built-in listener now holds several bindings rather than one, and the KDE side is parameterised by desktop id, so the meeting toggle gets a shortcut of its own on the same footing as the dictation one.
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@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ set next to it.
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| Start / stop recording | `Ctrl+Space`, or click the tray icon |
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| Cancel a recording | Tray menu → *Cancel recording*, or `dikte cancel` |
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| Start / end a meeting | Tray menu → *Record a meeting*, or `dikte meeting` |
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| Settings | Tray menu → *Settings*, or `dikte settings` |
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| Reload after an update | Tray menu → *Restart*, or `dikte restart` |
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| Quit | Tray menu → *Quit*, or `dikte quit` |
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@@ -80,6 +81,15 @@ elapsed time, then the stage it is on. It never takes focus. Pressing
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- **A failed cleanup is never silent.** The raw transcript is still pasted so the
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dictation is not lost, but the indicator turns amber with the reason instead of
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looking like a normal run.
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- **Meetings** are recorded from the microphone and the speaker output at the
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same time, which settles who said what by the channel a voice arrived on
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instead of guessing at it. The two sides are transcribed separately and
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interleaved into one timestamped transcript, and a second model, configured
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under Settings → Meeting along with its own instruction, turns that into
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minutes: decisions, action items, open questions. They land in
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`~/.local/share/dikte/meetings` and in Settings → Minutes. A run that fails
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keeps its recording, and a retry resumes from the transcript it already paid
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for.
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- **Audio and video files** run through the same models under Settings → Audio
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file, optionally with `[mm:ss]` timestamps, chunked through ffmpeg when long,
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and saved as `.txt` or as `.srt` subtitles.
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@@ -100,7 +110,8 @@ needs your user in the `input` group: `sudo usermod -aG input $USER`.
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```
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dikte.py entry point, tray icon, state machine, IPC
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audio.py raw PCM capture through pw-record plus the level meter
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audio.py PCM capture: pw-record for dictation, ffmpeg for a meeting
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meeting.py channel split, speaker labelling, cleanup, minutes
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api.py transcription on either provider, OpenRouter cleanup (stdlib only)
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worker.py transcribe → clean up → clipboard → paste
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vad.py deciding whether a recording holds speech at all
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