Transcripts and speaker labels

Every recording becomes a transcript after processing, where each line has a speaker and a timestamp. Here’s what to expect, and how to fix the parts machines get wrong.

After you stop

The recording uploads and gets processed. A few minutes later (longer for long recordings), the note has the finished version:

• Speaker labels on every line — who said what.
• Clickable timestamps — click a line to jump the audio to that moment.
• Summaries — long calls are summarized in sections, so an hour-long call is skimmable.

How it knows who’s who

No bot joins your call. Banter uses the recording, meeting context, and speaker-name corrections from your account to suggest who said what.

The easiest way to get the best speaker attribution is to record a browser meeting with the Chrome extension. In Google Meet and Teams, the extension can read meeting metadata from the page, including participant names and speaking activity. That gives Banter real names to work with instead of relying on audio alone.

If you record without the extension, or record a native app or in-person conversation, Banter still separates speakers from the recording and suggests names where it can. Those suggestions are less informed because Banter cannot see the meeting page’s participant metadata.

Suggested names can be corrected in the transcript. Corrections help Banter label future recordings from your account.

Fixing a name

Auto-matched names are suggestions. If “Priya” is labeled “Michael”, click the name in the transcript pane and correct it. Corrections apply across the transcript.

Where transcripts show up

• In the note, as the recording’s transcript pane.
• In search — ask the assistant “when did Acme mention the security review?” and it finds the moment.
• To connected AI tools, which can read transcripts and quote exact wording with timestamps.