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Research on voice AI, privacy and on-device intelligence. Every claim links to its source.
Speech-to-text is a commodity now. What matters is what happens next
FFmpeg ships Whisper. faster-whisper runs it four times faster on the same hardware. When transcription is free and local, the value moves to accuracy you can check and output a business can use.
When AI notes invent things: what the research says, and what we do about it
About 1% of Whisper transcripts contain whole invented phrases. A 1B model wrote unfaithful dialogue summaries 83% of the time in one study. Meeting notes need a check that does not depend on the model behaving.
Speech AI for India has to handle code-mixing, not just 22 languages
Hundreds of millions of Indians speak more than one language, often in one sentence. The open datasets and models are catching up; one setting can still move error from 40% to 6%.
Can a laptop run a meeting assistant? On-device AI in 2026, measured
Phone makers ship 3B models on-device, PC makers ship 40-TOPS NPUs, and 1B–3B open models were built for it. Here is what that buys on an ordinary laptop CPU.
The Otter.ai ruling, explained: when a notetaker's vendor counts as a third party
On 13 August 2026 a federal judge let wiretap claims against Otter.ai go forward. The reasoning is narrow and it matters to every product that records conversations: a vendor that uses recordings for its own purposes may not be “just a tool”.
Recording a conversation with AI: consent rules in the US, the EU and India
Eleven US states need everyone's consent to record. The EU's AI transparency rules apply from August 2026. India's DPDP Rules phase in by May 2027. A plain summary for teams that record meetings, calls or counter conversations.
Why organisations are blocking AI notetakers, and what they allow instead
Harvard restricted AI meeting assistants in 2025. Microsoft Teams now holds detected bots in the lobby by default. Law firms warn about privilege. The pattern: tools that send meetings to an unapproved cloud are being shut out.
AI meeting notetakers in 2026: a fair comparison of cloud and on-device
Most notetakers now offer a bot-free desktop app, so “no bot” no longer separates them. Where transcription runs, who keeps the audio and what the output becomes do. Fifteen products, compared on what their own pages say.
When the recorder company disappears: Humane, Limitless and Bee
Humane's AI Pin stopped working and its cloud data was deleted. Limitless stopped selling its pendant after Meta bought it. Amazon bought Bee. If your recordings live in someone else's cloud, their roadmap decides what happens to them.