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# How to Record, Summarize, and Automate Your Meetings
- URL: https://list2.alterhq.com/how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings/
- Published: 2026-06-05T22:05:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-05T22:05:41.000Z
- Description: From setup to powerful automation workflows, learn everything about what you can do with Alter to handle your meetings.
- Author: Samuel ROY
- Tags: #beehiiv, #Import 2026-10-04 19:36

Hey everyone,

We’re publishing our first long video format to help you get the most of Alter.  
  
This first video is about Meetings and everything you need to know to build a system that works for you.  
  
It starts with the basics, go through the live capabilities of Alter with Live Captions and the Live Notepad, and ends with advanced automation tips.

### Timestamps

[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Intro  
[00:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=34s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)The full AI meeting workflow in Alter  
[01:07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=67s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Choose the right voice processor  
[02:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=144s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Check your audio setup before meetings  
[03:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=193s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Automatic meeting detection  
[03:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=236s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Customize meeting detection settings  
[04:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=273s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Why calendar context matters  
[05:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=310s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Start meetings manually when needed  
[05:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=342s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Use Live Captions during meetings  
[06:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=374s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Use Live Notepad during meetings  
[06:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=414s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Review the transcript and fix speakers  
[07:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=475s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)How speaker matching works  
[08:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=519s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Generate a meeting report  
[09:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=549s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Customize meeting reports  
[09:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=599s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Automate actions with On New Transcript  
[10:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=650s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Create multiple outputs from one transcript  
[11:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=684s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Handle back-to-back meetings  
[12:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=724s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Troubleshooting tips  
[12:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=762s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Recover recordings and rerun transcription  
[13:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=803s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Import existing audio and video files  
[14:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=849s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Search, save, and sync transcripts  
[15:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSzo-mbm1U&t=903s&utm%5Fsource=list.alterhq.com&utm%5Fmedium=referral&utm%5Fcampaign=how-to-record-summarize-and-automate-your-meetings)Full workflow recap

Cheers,  
Olivier & Sam  

## Full Changelog

### New Features & Enhancements

- **Speaker matching**: Added calendar selection for speaker matching and support for matching speakers from calendar contacts, added manual calendar event selection.
- **QuickHub shortcuts**: Added a Control double-tap QuickHub shortcut, Esc no longer closes the QuickHub.
- **Conversation workflows**: Improved user experience when forking a conversation from a user message.

### Bug Fixes & Stability

- **Meeting and audio recovery**: Added retry recovery for audio input failures, recovered selected input authorization failures, fell back to mic-only mode when meeting audio routes fail, hardened the end-of-meeting detection.
- **Speaker and transcript quality**: Prevent transcripion from stalling because of bad vocabulary, improved speaker name matching, and restored live transcript context loading in QuickHub.
- **QuickHub reliability**: Prevented modifier-click misfires, fix background job not being in the background, close blank chat tabs on Command-W when other chats are open, and hardened QuickHub close teardown to prevent a crash when dismissing the window.
- **Tools and task stability**: Improved tool matching in tasks, preserved OpenAI tool-call history in BYOK scenarios, and improved skill info failure diagnostics.
- **AppSense and context handling**: Fixed AppSense contexts wrongly being added to messages, table formatting improvements, fixed contexts not following along when forking from the first user message.
- **Voice**: Display the meeting apps monitored for voice detection.

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