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Daisy news and articles
Weekly product news — shipped work kept separate from beta and internal testing — and articles you can check for yourself. Reference documentation lives in Docs.
Daisy and mymeet.ai: bot-free is not local
Both record without a bot. mymeet.ai uploads the recording to its cloud; Daisy transcribes on your Mac, in Russian too. And where mymeet.ai is ahead.
Dictate while a meeting records, without adding it to the transcript
Mac 1.0.8.47 is stable. Dictation can run alongside meeting capture, the meeting card shows progress after Stop, and long local summaries have more time to finish.
The best local meeting transcription apps for Mac and Windows in 2026
Seven tools that record meetings without a bot, compared on what people actually ask: Russian, speaker separation, local summaries, MCP for AI assistants and price. Every cell checked against the vendor's own pages on October 31, 2026.
Local meeting transcription apps for 2027: what to check before you choose
Going into 2027, the questions are changing: where audio becomes text, who can read your archive through MCP, which platforms you need and whether an account is required. The same seven tools compared on those points, with sources.
Meeting transcription in 2027: eleven feature trends, and what they mean for your data
What meeting note-takers actually shipped between May and October 2026 — bot-free capture, on-device speech models, MCP for agents, chat across meetings, wearables, voiceprints, live translation — with a source for every example, and what each trend changes about where your meetings end up.
Daisy and MacWhisper: two local Mac apps, two different jobs
Both transcribe on your Mac. MacWhisper leads on file transcription and subtitles; Daisy is built around meetings, with a plain-file archive and a local MCP server.
Daisy and OpenWhispr: two open-source local meeting apps
Both are open source and transcribe locally. OpenWhispr runs on more platforms; Daisy keeps meetings as plain files and serves agents from a local MCP server with no account.
From a spoken thought to text you can use
Mac beta 1.0.8.43 brings together the week's voice commands, meeting templates, in-app Ollama model downloads and a simpler first-run experience. iPhone and Apple Watch remain in internal testing.
Choose what to keep, know what you share
Mac 1.0.8.32 moves to stable. Beta 1.0.8.33 adds dictation retention choices, safer imports and sync, and optional usage reports you can inspect. The internal iPhone build makes follow-ups and notes easier to work with.
Choose when to process meetings, keep your audio in sync
A new stable Mac release, processing plans in beta, aligned audio tracks and crash reports you control. The internal iPhone build also handles longer transcripts in parts.
Daisy and Krisp: meeting notes that stay on your Mac
Krisp transcribes only English on-device and keeps meetings in its cloud by default; Daisy keeps everything local in any language. And where Krisp is ahead.
Private therapy notes: a local recording workflow
How to plan consent, local transcription, supervision excerpts and retention before recording a therapy session. Where Daisy fits and what it does not guarantee.
Private medical meeting notes: from conversation to reviewed record
A practical workflow for doctors evaluating local transcription: separate drafts from the clinical record, check critical details and control every copy.
Confidential client meetings: a note-taking workflow for lawyers
How to organize client recordings, transcripts and AI drafts by matter, review quotations and share only what the legal team needs.
Private HR interview notes and one-on-one records
A workflow for hiring interviews, employee one-on-ones and sensitive HR conversations: collect less, review the evidence and limit access.
Meeting tools for sales teams: notes, CRM and coaching
Compare Daisy, HubSpot and Gong by the job you need done. A practical handoff from a sales call to verified CRM fields and accountable follow-up.
Call center tools: recording, quality review and team results
How to choose between telephony, quality assurance and local notes. Compare Aircall, Zendesk QA and Daisy against the work your team actually does.
An open-source meeting assistant: what the source actually lets you check
Open source is only useful if it covers the parts that matter and matches what you run. Four checks for any open-source meeting tool, and where Daisy stands on each — including how to match the app you run to its source.
Project memory and useful next steps after a meeting
Six Mac beta builds brought project context, follow-up drafts and audio quotes. On iPhone and Apple Watch, work continued on archive search, Russian localization and recording reliability.
A steadier Mac release, with iPhone and Watch taking shape
This week brought a stable Mac update, a smaller follow-up beta, and a lot of reliability work on the private iPhone and Apple Watch builds.
Why Daisy stopped hearing the other side — and what we changed
Two people told us Daisy stopped recording the other side of their calls. Three separate faults, one symptom, and a warning nobody could see. What happened, what shipped the same day, and what is still open.
A local meeting recorder for Mac: what “local” should mean, and how to check
“Local”, “private” and “on-device” get used loosely. Five questions that separate a local meeting recorder from a cloud one with a local-sounding name — and how Daisy answers each, including the parts that do leave the Mac.
Open speech benchmarks
A reproducible AMI diarization baseline and the open methodology for WER, DER, speaker count, capture completeness and processing time.
Daisy and Granola: local meeting notes for Mac
Local recording and on-device transcription, plain Markdown, your choice of AI, open source and a local MCP server — where Daisy and Granola differ.
Daisy and Otter: private meeting notes for Mac
No meeting bot and no transcripts uploaded to a cloud workspace — how Daisy compares with Otter.ai.
Daisy and Apple's built-in transcription
Apple's apps already transcribe on-device. What Daisy adds: both sides of a call, speaker labels, your own AI, Markdown and MCP.
Verify Daisy is local — yourself
Block Daisy at the firewall and record a meeting, watch every connection it makes, read the files it writes. Every host Daisy can contact, and what triggers each one.