Every word of the meeting. Larch uploads none of it.
Larch hears your Teams, Zoom and Meet calls, labels who spoke, and writes the transcript to a file on your Windows PC. The speech recognition runs on the laptop too.
Sound inYou, Others
On this PCspeech to text, who spoke
File out.md
The whole meeting, read like a document.
Every call gets its own page: who spoke when, every word with its time, and exports for the apps you already use.
Who spoke whenThe whole call in one strip, one lane per speaker.
Every word, timedThe full text, so you can quote it.
ExportCopy for OneNote, Word .docx, or plain text.
Rename a speakerSpeaker 1 becomes Priya across the transcript and its file.
The call ends. The file is already on its way.
- The Teams call starts. Larch records your mic and the meeting app’s audio on your PC.
- The call ends. Transcription and speaker labels run on your PC.
- The file is in your folder, and the audio is gone.
Larch doesn’t announce itself in the call. You’re responsible for telling people on the call and following your company’s rules. In some states everyone on a call has to agree.
Recording is your call. Make it out loud.
Larch hears the call from your PC, so nothing joins the meeting and nobody gets a pop-up. You’re responsible for telling people on the call and following your company’s rules. Say it at the start, or paste this in the chat:
“Quick note: I’m taking a transcript of this call on my laptop. Nothing gets uploaded. Tell me if you’d rather I didn’t.”
Some states, including California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washington, require everyone on a call to agree. Larch can’t decide the law or your company’s policy for you.
A data path your IT team can read in one page.
Publisher: Belted Labs LLC
Windows 11
Install
- Signed
- By Belted Labs LLC
- Per user
- No admin rights, no service
- Offline
- Speech models ship in the installer
Network
- One call
- The update check, with no meeting content
- No account
- Nothing to sign in to
- No bot
- Nothing joins the meeting; you’re responsible for telling people on the call
Data
- Audio
- Encrypted while it waits, deleted once the file is saved
- Voices
- Held in memory for one meeting, never saved
- Transcript
- A plain file in a folder you choose
Where your meeting goes, tool by tool.
Most meeting tools send the call to their own servers. Larch turns it into text on your PC. See how eight tools compare on where the meeting goes, who’s told, and what you get to keep.
Today a transcript. Next, a second brain.
In Larch 1.0 Available
- Transcripts with speaker labelsTeams, Zoom, Meet and in-person
- Markdown, Word and OneNoteSaved and exported your way
- Runs on your PCNo account, Larch uploads nothing
Coming Not in 1.0
- Auto-filingNotes for the people, companies, projects and decisions each meeting mentions, linked together
- A notes app with a graphOpens an existing Obsidian vault as it is
- Your choice of AIA model on your PC, Larch AI, your own key, or your own Claude
AI options other than the on-PC model send text to a model provider. Each will say so before you turn it on.
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Questions
Does anything get uploaded?add
Larch uploads none of your audio or text. Speech recognition and speaker labels run on your PC. Its only network call is the update check, which carries your license id and nothing from your meetings.
Does Larch tell other people on the call?add
No. Larch doesn’t join the meeting, so the people on it won’t know unless you tell them. You’re responsible for telling people on the call and following your company’s rules. Say it at the start of the call or paste a one-line note in the chat.
Which calls does it work with?add
Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet in Chrome or Edge. For a meeting in the room, start it from the tray or press Ctrl+Alt+M.
What does it need?add
Windows 11. The installer is about {size} because the speech models are inside it.