Live meeting assistant

The Live section records an ongoing meeting, transcribes it with speaker labels, and surfaces live insights, Q&A, and an editable summary you can attach to a topic. Audio is transcribed in the browser via Azure Speech and never stored — only the transcript and derived insights are kept.

A live session — speaker-labeled transcript alongside live insights (action items, decisions, open questions).

Prerequisites

Transcription uses Azure AI Speech. Set a Speech key and endpoint under Settings → Speech-to-text. Until then, sessions can be created but the Record button stays disabled.

Capturing meeting audio

A browser can only capture audio it's given access to. For an in-person meeting, selecting your microphone is enough. For a remote meeting in a desktop app (like Teams), you route the app's output through a virtual audio device that then looks like a normal microphone to the browser — while still sending the audio to your speakers so you keep hearing the call.

The How to capture meeting audio dialog (the ? next to the input picker) has step-by-step, OS-specific instructions:

• macOS — BlackHole + a Multi-Output Device.
• Windows — VB-CABLE with Listen to this device enabled.
• Linux — a PipeWire / PulseAudio null sink + loopback.

For hybrid meetings, tick + mic to also capture your local microphone alongside the virtual device — both streams are mixed and transcribed together.

Language

Pick the meeting language when creating the session or from the Live toolbar. Changing it mid-session briefly restarts the recognizer (Azure can't switch a running recognizer's language in place). Live insights and Q&A answers are produced in the session's language.

Insights, Q&A, and summary

The Live view is a tabbed, splittable panel — Transcript · Live Insights · Summary · Context. Use the Split toggle to view two sections side by side, each with its own tab-strip and a draggable divider.

• Live Insights — while recording, the assistant re-derives a snapshot of action items, decisions, open questions, suggestions, and risks from the rolling transcript on a short pause / interval cadence.
• Ask assistant — ask free-form questions; answers stream from the transcript plus the attached topic.
• Speaker labels — click a label in the transcript to rename it (Guest-2 → Thomas); the name applies to every past and future phrase from that voice.
• Summary — an editable markdown recap, including an Attendees list (seeded from renamed speakers and any linked meeting's invitees), which you can post into the linked topic as a message.
• Context — an AI summary of the attached topic, and — via the WorkIQ MCP (Microsoft 365) — the ability to link a meeting from your agenda so its invitees flow into the summary's attendees.

Settings

Configure the section under Settings → Live: enable/disable it, and choose the fast model + reasoning effort used for live insights and Q&A (summaries use your default chat model for quality). Speech credentials live under Settings → Speech-to-text.

Privacy

Audio is streamed directly from the browser to Azure Speech using a short-lived token minted by the backend — the subscription key never reaches the browser, and raw audio is never persisted. Only the finalized transcript (and derived insights) are stored.