Summit AI Notes - Private Audio Transcription & AI Insights

I started Summit out of frustration with two things: privacy, and the fact that transcripts with superficial summaries alone don't solve the real problem. They quickly turn into a graveyard of meetings you never come back to.

Capture nothing misses

- Dual audio: mic + system audio simultaneously, with echo deduplication
- No meeting bot — Summit records the audio your Mac already hears, on Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, anything
- Calendar auto-record picks up in-progress meetings even after a manual stop
- Import audio files from anywhere
- Per-document language override when auto-detect guesses wrong
- Speaker identification that recognizes the same person across recordings

Search and chat that respect your workflow

- Find the quote, not just the keyword
- Chat scoped to one document, sidebar selection, or your whole library
- Person view showing every action item assigned to a teammate, across all your meetings
- Meeting prep that pulls context from recurring series

Local by default, cloud by choice

Everything — transcription, insights, chat, embeddings — runs on your Mac. No accounts, no telemetry, no servers. If you'd rather route a summary through Claude, GPT, or Gemini.

Built for people who care about the output

- Knowledge workers — auto-recorded calendar meetings turn into insights with action items already assigned
- Researchers & journalists — speaker-attributed transcripts in 99+ languages, exact-quote search
- Founders & PMs — chat across every customer call you've ever recorded
- Legal & medical — sensitive conversations never touch a server you don't own

Requirements

Apple Silicon Mac, 16 GB RAM minimum (24 GB+ recommended for the larger models). Initial model download 500MB–4GB depending on tier.

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