Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline
The Verge Emma Roth ● Covered by 2 sources
Google’s new note-taking app transcribes meetings and audio completely offline. It runs on your Mac, so the transcript never has to leave the machine.
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Google has released an experimental note-taking app called Google AI Edge Foresight, and the hook is simple: it can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline. TechCrunch reported it earlier, and Google says the app is free to use.
Foresight runs on macOS and uses Google’s on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. That means the transcription work happens on the computer itself, not in the cloud. For anyone who’s spent a meeting wondering what exactly got sent off to some distant server, that’s a pretty pointed design choice.
The app follows the same basic pattern as tools like Granola and Wispr Flow. It gives you a transcript, then a place to add your own notes alongside it. Google says you can jot down shorthand bullet points while the meeting is happening, and the app will turn them into polished notes using the transcript as the source.
That combination matters more than the label “experimental” might suggest. Offline transcription is the kind of feature that sounds niche until people start comparing it with cloud-first note tools and asking who else gets to listen in. Google’s answer here is to keep the whole thing on the Mac.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right instinct from Google: less cloud theater, more local work. Offline note-taking is what serious privacy promises look like when they stop wearing a blazer and start doing the job.
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