Live meeting transcription that gets speaker names right

Every meeting-transcription tool promises speaker labels. Most of them guess. They record one audio stream and use AI diarization to decide where one voice ends and another begins. That works until two people sound alike, talk over each other, or join from the same laptop. Then your deposition transcript says Speaker 2 made the admission, and nobody can prove who Speaker 2 was.

Give every speaker their own microphone

Zoom solved attribution years ago without much fanfare: each participant's audio arrives on its own channel, so the platform never has to guess who is talking. Kinode Meetings works the same way. Every attendee opens the meeting link on their own device, their own microphone captures their words, and every line lands in the transcript under their name. There is no guessing step anywhere in the pipeline.

What a live session looks like

The host starts a meeting instantly, schedules one ahead of time with a shareable link and waiting room, or uses their permanent personal room. Attendees join from a browser with no account and no install. Meetings can be open, passcode-protected, or restricted to signed-in users. Multi-party video with screen sharing runs peer-to-peer, and captions appear seconds behind speech, with everyone's words labeled by name and visible to everyone.

Synced to the clock, exported like a professional

Every line carries a wall-clock timestamp computed from the meeting's date and time, not just elapsed seconds. When the meeting ends, formal minutes (attendees, decisions, action items) and a summary generate on their own, and the transcript exports as SRT, Word, Markdown, or plain text. For uploaded recordings, Kinode can also embed the speaker names and timestamps into the video itself as a subtitle track, or burn them into the picture permanently.

Who this is for

Teams that need a record: legal and insurance interviews, client calls, hearings, standups where it matters who committed to what. Kinode Meetings is $29/month, and it's included in Plus and Pro.