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Notes from the margin.
Notes on meeting recording, live transcription and using AI during a call, written by the person building MidMeeting.
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Why did an AI bot join my meeting?
A notetaker bot gets in because someone gave it their calendar. Here is the plumbing, the three places a recorder can sit, what Teams, Meet and Zoom did about bots in 2026, and why a visible tile is not consent.
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Where does your meeting audio actually go?
Bot-free is not the same as local. Most desktop notetakers record on your computer and then ship the audio somewhere else. Three questions to put to any vendor, with the answers I found on their own pages.
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AI during the meeting, not after it
Most notetakers hand you a summary once the call is over. Live help means four different things in 2026, from a transcript you can read to a note you did not ask for, and here is what each vendor ships.
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What AI meeting notes really cost
The pricing page shows the annual number; the monthly one is often double, and the free tier has a catch. I lined up thirteen vendors, then priced the alternative: buy once and pay for tokens yourself.
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