Transcripted

Transcripted helps your Mac remember what was said.

It records meetings, handles dictation, and saves clean local transcripts your agent can read. Everything important stays on your Mac.

Why this exists

Most agents only know what you type.

But a lot of your real context shows up in speech instead:

• meetings
• quick voice notes
• decisions made out loud
• promises you made on a call

Transcripted keeps that spoken context from disappearing.

What it does today

Record meetings locally

Start a meeting recording, let Transcripted capture your mic and system audio, and when you stop it, it saves a local transcript.

Useful when you want a simple record of:

• what happened
• who said what
• what got decided
• what needs a follow-up

Meeting transcripts are currently saved here:

~/Library/Application Support/Draft/meetings/transcripts

That Draft-named path stays in place for now so local data does not break during the transition. The MCP and QA tools default to the same Draft-named app-support tree, with meeting artifacts under ~/Library/Application Support/Draft/meetings and transcripts inside that folder's transcripts/ subdirectory.

Dictate into any app

Click into any text field, start dictation, speak, and Transcripted pastes the text back into the app you were already using.

Useful for:

• messages
• notes
• docs
• quick thoughts

Where the agent part fits

Transcripted is not trying to be another meeting bot, note-taking app, or chat app.

The job is simpler:

• capture spoken context locally
• save it in clean files
• make it easy for your agent or your own tools to work from what actually happened

If your agent can read a folder, it can work from Transcripted's output.

Connect your agent

Transcripted now has one main connection path plus two optional fallbacks:

• Copy one prompt — paste a smart prompt that uses MCP when available and folders when not
• MCP — optionally give supported agents direct read-only tools for search, recaps, meetings, and dictations
• Folders — manually point any file-reading agent at your local Transcripted data if needed

The end-user setup guide lives in docs/agent-connect.md.

Privacy

Transcripted is local-first.

• dictation stays on your Mac
• meeting audio stays on your Mac
• transcripts stay on your Mac

Beta builds can optionally talk to the update/log proxy, but core dictation and transcription do not depend on cloud APIs.

What this repo is

main currently carries the app codebase that came from Draft and now powers Transcripted.

The old standalone Transcripted app is preserved on:

• branch: legacy/transcripted-standalone
• tag: pre-draft-takeover-2026-04-06

This transition is manual for now:

• existing Transcripted installs do not auto-upgrade into the new app
• Transcripted should currently be treated as a new install
• permissions and settings do not carry over automatically

Build

bash build-deps.sh
bash build.sh

build-deps.sh creates the deps-libs/ and deps-modules/ artifacts that the local tool packages expect.

Tests

bash run-tests.sh

If you touch meeting integration or TranscriptedCore, also run:

bash run-integration-smoke.sh

In short

Transcripted captures spoken context on your Mac so your agent does not have to start blind.