Transcripter

Transcripter transcribes meetings in real-time, allowing you to easily record what is said and search the transcript after the fact.

The website allows you to log in, create a meeting, and invite people to it. Once everyone has joined, the transcription of each connected user starts with the push of a button. You can pause the meeting and stop it once it's over, after which point you can download a PDF or text version of the complete transcript. Transcripts are per-user, making it easy to see exactly who said what at any point during the meeting.

Creation

Transcripter was largely created over two days at HACK UCSC in January 2016 by Arnaud Gallardo (@ArnaudGallardo) and Teo Fleming (@mokolodi1). Small additions were made after the hackathon in preparation for the UCSC Business Design Showcase.

Reception

Transcripter won 2nd place at HACK UCSC 2016 ($4825 in cash and prizes) and 2nd place at the UCSC Business Design Showcase in 2016 ($3000 in cash).

We presented Transcripter at the Santa Cruz New Tech MeetUp and were immediately bombarded by users that wanted to join the beta. Unfortunately we stopped development on the project soon after due to time constraints. (Teo was working full-time at UCSC and Arnaud was a full-time student.)

Tech

We built Transcripter with Meteor and use Chrome's built-in transcription toolkit for the heavy lifting.

How to start it

# install Meteor (instructions at https://www.meteor.com/install)
curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

# grab the code
git clone https://github.com/ArnaudGallardo/transcripter

# run it
cd transcripter
meteor