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Caption anything you hear.

Music, anime, podcasts, lectures, meetings. Transcribed and translated as you listen.

And record it.

A transcript you can search, and a summary of what to do next.

Kanary Recordings window with a sample meeting, Q3 Roadmap Planning: the transcript with each speaker labeled, the participants, and a summary whose decisions include the redesign as July's headline item

More than a transcript.

Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, or any call your Mac can hear.

Know who said what.

Voices are told apart. Name someone once and every line follows.

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00:12Sounds good. Are we still treating onboarding as the top priority?

00:17About forty percent never finish the second step.

You

00:21Right. Let's make the redesign the headline item.

00:24That lines up with the support tickets, too.

00:26Agreed. I can own the design spec.

00:31I'll pull the drop-off numbers for it.

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Decisions and action items. Summarize with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT (Codex), or Claude.

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SummaryRegenerate
Decisions
  • [0:49] Onboarding redesign is the headline item for July.
  • [1:43] Ship CSV export in Q3.
Risks
  • Mobile crash rates should come down before new mobile features ship.
Action items
  • [2:21] Taylor: triage the top five crashers.

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00:12MayaAre we still treating onboarding as the top priority?

00:23TaylorYes. onboarding completion is our biggest drop-off.

01:02YouI can own the onboarding design spec.

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Your recordings. Ready for your agents.

The kanary command gives Claude Code, Codex, and your own scripts access to your recordings. They can list recordings, read a transcript, import a file, or start recording, and every result comes back as JSON.

Reading or transcribing past 75 minutes from the command line is part of Pro.

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Works offline.
Stays on your Mac.

No upload, no queue. Your recordings never leave this Mac to be transcribed.

Cloud appsYour audio goes to a server.KanaryNever leaves your Mac.

Processed here

Recording, transcription, captions, translation, and the Apple Intelligence summary all run on your Mac.

Shared when you choose

Advanced summaries send the transcript to ChatGPT (Codex) or Claude, whichever you pick. iCloud Drive sync is opt-in.

Nothing joins the call

No bot, no browser extension. Kanary records what your Mac hears.

Recording laws vary by region. Where all-party consent is required, tell everyone before you record.

An hour of audio.
A transcript in seconds.

Transcripts come from Apple's on-device speech recognition, SpeechAnalyzer, running on the Neural Engine in Apple silicon, with accuracy close to the state of the art.

Time to transcribe an hour of audio, on the Mac

KanaryNeural Engine47 s

MLX WhisperGPU2.6× longer

WhisperCPU27× longer

Measured on a MacBook Air (M5, 16 GB) with a 60-minute English recording.

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Questions

Does my audio leave my Mac?

Recording, transcription, captions, translation, and the Apple Intelligence summary all run on your Mac. Audio leaves only if you turn on iCloud Drive sync. Advanced summaries send the transcript to Claude Code or Codex, when you choose it.

Which meeting apps work?

Any app that plays sound on your Mac: Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack huddles, and the rest. Kanary records the audio, not the app.

How long can a recording be?

Recording compresses as it goes, so a three-hour all-hands stays light. If space runs low, Kanary stops cleanly and keeps everything so far.

What happens past 1 hour 15 minutes on Free?

The full audio is always saved. Free transcribes the first 1 hour 15 minutes. Upgrade later and re-transcribe the same audio without re-recording.