A meeting recorder for your Mac with a live copilot. Answers from your own documents, mid-call. Free and open source.

26 points•turantekin•about 10 hours ago•11 comments•
Hello Hacker News

I am Uygar, I am an entrepreneur from London. I run my businesses on calls everyday, customers, partners and suppliers. And i have a horrible memory i forgot things. So months ago with the help of Claude i have built Parrot. I have designed and coded for my work and what i need. An to be honest worked very well and helped me alot.

Parrot records what your mac hears and everything stays in your computer if you use local models, no account, no API calls. There is something called copilot which made my life easier, you can upload your files and when parrot hears that question on the screen recommends the answer. Which i believe very handy.

If you want to make it smarter and dont mind cloud you can hook up your Claude API and Deepgram account, that gives super powers to Parrot. You still keep it locally but eventually you need to make API calls.

So local or cloud totally up to you.

Then after months of thinking i have decided share it as open source and this is my first open source project, so please go easy on me :)

No account, no membership, open source and free.

Code: https://github.com/turantekin/Parrot

This project made me so excited and really would like to share with you guys so i hope can help you too. Again, i am new so go easy on me and if you have any feedback i would like to hear.

Thank you Uygar

11 comments

joshstrangeabout 7 hours ago
Tried this out, and it might be due to other apps on my computer or something but the audio it records has a echo. When I go to play back a speaker's voice it sounds I can hear what sounds like 2 audio streams, slightly offset. Maybe it's something to do with SoundSource/ARC or my other meeting transcribing app.

One more feature I'd love is the ability to export the text/transcript in markdown automatically. I have another tool (MeetingTranscriber) that does this and I like that so I can put the transcripts in my Obsidian Vault which I already expose to the various agents I use.

elektorabout 6 hours ago
What is the url of the MeetingTranscribe tool? Google is giving me generic results.
turantekinabout 5 hours ago
Thanks for trying it and for writing this up.

On the echo, a few questions so I can pin it down:

1. Which version are you on (Parrot menu > About Parrot)? 0.24.0 fixed a bug where the mic track and the system audio track could start a few seconds apart, which sounds exactly like two copies of the same voice. If you're on something older, updating fixes new recordings (old ones stay as they are, sorry).

2. Were you on headphones or speakers? On speakers the mic also picks up the other person. The echo canceller removes most of it but not all, so you can get a faint second copy a split second behind.

3. Roughly how far apart are the two copies? A short slapback points at mic bleed, a clear repeat of whole words points at timing or routing.

If you have a minute, one short test call with SoundSource and the other transcriber quit would tell us a lot. Both hook into system audio, and I want to rule out Parrot recording the call twice.

Happy to dig in on GitHub if that's easier: https://github.com/turantekin/Parrot/issues

On Markdown: that already exists, it's just tucked away in settings. Settings > Connections, pick a folder (your Obsidian vault works) and switch on automatic saving. Every finished meeting lands there as a note with front matter, summary, next steps as checkboxes and the full transcript. Saving again updates the same note instead of making a copy.

And since you mentioned agents: Parrot can also connect straight to Claude, Cursor or Codex (Settings > Claude & AI Apps), so they can search your meetings directly.

moecablesabout 8 hours ago
instead of calling it "co-pilot" maybe call it something like "Coach", Assistant, or anything that doesn't connect it to Copilot from Microsoft b/c that's what I thought it meant
turantekinabout 7 hours ago
Agree. I don’t know why I called it copilot assistant sounds good. I will work on that tomorrow thank thank you so much.
1shoonerabout 8 hours ago
I agree, 'copilot' is overloaded even within the Microsoft portfolio.
turantekinabout 7 hours ago
Yeah you are right. I will work on that!
60pfennigabout 4 hours ago
Hi looks nice but can it handle remote meetings with speaker on? So the audio stream gets recorded back thru the mic? Most of these meeting apps struggle with that.
satvikpendemabout 4 hours ago
There are so many of these already out there.
nillebabout 7 hours ago
amazing! Great initiative, thank you! I have contributed to a similar app (called Recap) a few months ago and wanted to change it to something similar to Parrot - you anticipated me, thank you!
turantekinabout 7 hours ago
Great! Well I had been using it for myself for a long time for my work. Plus I am enjoying building it, so much fun. Any feedback please feel free to reach me.

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