Notulist transcribes a meeting after the recording stops, not live while you talk. Because the audio is uploaded during the recording, transcription starts as soon as the last part is in.

Choose the language of a meeting

You can set the language before you record or upload:

  • Web: on New recording, open Advanced and choose a Language. The upload dialog has the same choice.
  • iPhone and Android: tap Language on the Record tab, or set it when you upload a file.
  • Mac: choose the language in the prompt when a call is detected, or under Settings › Audio.

With Detect language (on the phone Auto-detect), Notulist works out the language from the audio. The meeting’s Details show the language, and which one was detected.

You can choose from Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Names and jargon come out better when they’re in your vocabulary. See Your vocabulary of names and terms.

When the transcript is ready

A meeting shows its status while it’s being processed: Processing, Transcribing, then Transcribed. A one-hour meeting takes a few minutes, and you can leave the page in the meantime. While Notulist writes the title, suggestions, action items and reports, the meeting shows Analyzing, and Ready when that’s done.

The transcript has a paragraph per speaker and a timestamp on every word. More in Edit and export a transcript.

The meeting’s title

After transcription, Notulist gives the meeting a title that describes what it was about. A title you typed yourself is never changed.

  • Rename: in the web app, click the title and type a new one. In the iPhone and Android apps, choose Rename in the meeting’s menu.
  • Generate new title: in the meeting’s menu, to let Notulist write a new title from the transcript. If you typed the title yourself, Notulist asks first.
  • To keep the titles you start with, turn off Name meetings automatically under Settings › Meetings.

Reports in another language

A report is written in the meeting’s language. To get one in another language, choose that language under Language when you generate it. See Reports and templates.

The language of the apps

Notulist itself is available in 16 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian.

  • Web: Settings › Interface › Interface language. Automatic follows your browser. The choice applies on all your devices.
  • iPhone and Android: Settings › General › Language.

Changing the app’s language doesn’t change your transcripts or reports: they keep the language that was spoken.