Bot-free meeting capture that feeds tasks and follow-ups #160

Meetings produce most commitments, and nobody wants a bot joining their call. Meetily shows the whole pipeline runs locally under MIT. Granola's bot-free approach is popular but gives little back if you don't type notes. OpenClaw added live meeting notes and searchable transcripts.

Idea: Capture system audio and the mic locally, with no bot joining the call. Transcribe with faster-whisper (or Parakeet), then summarize on the local model into decisions, action items and tasks, feeding the dropped-follow-up engine. Recording is visible and opt-in per meeting, and audio is deleted after transcription.

Status in Sentient today: New. Local STT exists in sentient/voice/stt.py.

Where: System-audio capture in desktop/electron/main/ and desktop/src/features/voice/audio/, upload and transcription in sentient/voice/ and sentient/gateway/routes/voice.py, summarizing into tasks via sentient/tasks/service.py and follow-ups in sentient/proactivity/followups.py, and docs/API.md.

Done when:

• a recorded meeting yields a transcript, decisions and action items, with tasks proposed
• a visible indicator shows while recording
• audio is deleted after transcription
• tests cover the pipeline with a fixture audio file and FakeProvider

Sources:

• https://meetily.ai/open-source
• https://hirekai.ai/blog/granola-review
• https://docs.openclaw.ai/releases

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