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TalkBar Documentation

Private AI for meetings, calls and voice notes. Bot-free capture, local transcription, and local AI or your own key.

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TalkBar app

Record, transcribe and summarize conversations on your computer, then keep what matters as searchable knowledge.

  • Bot-free meeting and call capture
  • Local transcription with speakers
  • Live summary, translation and Knowledge Cards
  • Summaries, decisions and action items
  • Ask TalkBar about any session or document
  • Private AI Mode and local models
  • Exports, share links and backups
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MCP & CLI

Let Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and other MCP clients search and work with your TalkBar workspace, under switches you control.

  • Local stdio MCP server
  • Ready-made setups for ChatGPT, Claude and Codex
  • Five gateway tools, 140+ operations
  • Per-operation access switches
  • Delete confirmation in your client
  • Scriptable talkbar-cli
  • Full operations reference
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Install and update

Download TalkBar and keep it up to date

Your first session

Record, review and summarize your first conversation

Sessions

Start, record, review, schedule and prepare sessions

Knowledge

Knowledge Cards, documents, people, projects and action items

AI and privacy

Choose where AI runs, from local models to your own key

Settings reference

Every setting, what it does and its default

Resources

Download TalkBar

Get the latest release for your computer

TalkBar website

Features, use cases and pricing

Troubleshooting

Fix common problems with recording, AI and updates

FAQ

Quick answers to common questions