Taking notes during a meeting, lecture, or important conversation can be challenging. You want to pay attention to the speaker, capture important details, and avoid missing information. Switching between recording apps and note-taking tools only makes the process more complicated.

At Transcribr, we are making that process easier with Live Notes, a new feature that lets you capture spoken words as they happen, directly from your browser.

Whether you are attending a business meeting, sitting in a classroom, participating in an online conference, or listening to a lecture, Live Notes helps you focus on the conversation while keeping a record of what is being said.

Capture Audio from Your Microphone, a Browser Tab, or Both

Different situations call for different recording methods. That is why Live Notes gives you three options for capturing audio.

Microphone: Capture conversations happening around you, including in-person meetings, discussions, and classroom sessions.
Browser tab: Capture audio directly from an online meeting or video playing in your browser. Your own voice is not included in this option.
Both: Capture audio from your microphone and browser tab together. This is particularly useful when you are participating in an online meeting and want to capture both your voice and the other participants.

Choose the option that suits your session, give it a clear name, select the spoken language, and click Start Listening.

Live Notes is designed to make capturing spoken information straightforward, without requiring you to juggle multiple applications.

Your Notes Stay on Your Device

Privacy matters, especially when you are recording meetings, business discussions, lectures, or other important conversations.

Live Notes uses on-device speech recognition to capture spoken words. Your recognized notes remain in your browser, and nothing is uploaded automatically.

You can also choose whether to record the original audio locally. This is useful if you want to keep a recording for later reference or need to transcribe it in greater detail.

By default, Live Notes saves recognized text rather than retaining meeting audio. If you enable local recording, the audio is saved in your browser instead of being automatically uploaded to the cloud.

You remain in control of what you save and when you choose to use cloud-based services.

Record Now, Transcribe in the Cloud Later

Live Notes is useful even when you do not need a full transcript immediately.

You can capture notes during a session and, if you enable local recording, keep the original audio for later processing. When you are ready, you can choose to upload the recording for cloud transcription.

This gives you a practical workflow: capture the conversation first, then generate a more detailed transcript when you need one.

For students, this can mean focusing on a lecture rather than trying to write down every sentence. For professionals, it can mean participating more actively in meetings while preserving a record of important discussions.

Manage Your Sessions and Export Your Notes

Your captured sessions can serve as a useful reference library for future work and study.

Live Notes includes options to manage sessions and export notes in different formats, including TXT and Markdown. These formats make it easier to keep personal records, organize information, or move your notes into other writing and documentation tools.

You can also give each session a descriptive name, making it easier to identify a particular meeting, class, or discussion later.

For those who want to reduce the size of their local recordings, the feature also includes an option to omit sustained silence. This pauses the local recorder after two quiet seconds.

Back Up Your Notes with Encryption

Losing important notes because of a device problem can be frustrating. Live Notes includes backup options designed to help protect your work.

You can export or restore a private backup protected with AES-256 encryption. The password is not stored by Transcribr.

There is also an encrypted cloud backup option. With this feature, your notes are encrypted on your device before they are sent to the cloud. The passphrase stays on your device, meaning Transcribr stores encrypted data rather than readable notes.

Cloud backups can help you maintain a copy of your notes beyond your current browser session, while keeping the encryption key under your control.

Who Can Benefit from Live Notes?

Live Notes can be useful to a wide range of people, including:

Students and researchers: Capture lectures, discussions, and research interviews for later review.

Business professionals: Keep track of meetings, planning sessions, and important conversations.

Remote workers: Capture audio from browser-based meetings while participating in discussions.

Journalists and content creators: Preserve spoken information that may be useful for research, interviews, and content development.

Teachers and educators: Capture lecture notes and other spoken material for reference.

As with any recording tool, make sure you have the necessary permission to record conversations and comply with applicable privacy rules, institutional policies, and workplace requirements.

Start Taking Live Notes Today

Live Notes brings real-time note capture, local recording, cloud transcription, export options, and encrypted backups into one browser-based workflow.

You can decide what audio to capture, whether to save the recording, and when to send it for cloud transcription. The goal is simple: help you capture important spoken information without making the process unnecessarily complicated.

Ready to try it? Visit Transcribr.org, open your dashboard, and select Live Notes to get started.

Spend less time worrying about taking notes and more time engaging with the conversation.

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