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Guides12 min read
MCP Servers for Meetings: How AI Assistants Search Your Transcripts
An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor search your meetings without a copy and paste. Here is how the protocol works, how the vendors differ, and what to check before you connect one.
Product7 min read
Refer Kalima: Free Transcription Time for You and Your Friends
If Kalima saves you work, you probably know someone it would help too. Share your personal referral link and you both get free transcription time, with tier rewards starting at three referrals.
Product4 min read
Chapters for Long Recordings: Find the Part You Need Without Scrubbing
An hour of audio is hard to navigate when all you have is a seek bar. Kalima's AI summary now splits the recording into titled chapters, so you can see its parts and jump straight to the one you need.
Product5 min read
The Interactive Transcript: Click a Word to Hear It, Click the Audio to Read It
A transcript and a recording usually live side by side and ignore each other. In Kalima they move together: words light up as they are spoken, any word takes you to its moment in the audio, and any point on the timeline takes you to its place in the text.
Guides12 min read
Microsoft Teams Facilitator: what it needs, where it stops, and an alternative
Facilitator takes live notes, keeps the agenda and answers questions inside a Teams meeting. It also needs a Copilot licence, Loop, a scheduled meeting, one spoken language and no external guests. This guide lists every condition as of September 2026, the failures people report on Microsoft Q&A, and where Kalima fits instead.
Guides9 min read
Your Company Blocked AI Notetakers. What You Can and Cannot Do Next
A blocked notetaker is either a switched-off transcription policy, a lobby that refused a bot, or a network that refuses the service itself. Only one of those is about something joining your call, and only one is a question you can answer without asking somebody first.
Guides9 min read
Can you record a job interview? Consent, state law and the AI Act question nobody answers
Five vendor blogs answer this with a state list and a consent form. None of them mention that a voice recording can trigger a biometric statute, none cover an EU employer interviewing a US candidate or the reverse, and none say what happens to the recording after the decision is made.
Guides9 min read
The Google Meet Transcript Exists and You Still Cannot Open It
You were in the meeting, the transcript was made, and Drive still shows you a Request access screen. Meet ties the transcript to the Calendar invite, cuts off meetings with more than 200 invitees, and leaves external guests out entirely. Here is each rule, and why the file came out in the wrong language.
Guides10 min read
'99 % accurate' means nothing: how to read a transcription accuracy claim, and how to catch the errors that matter
Every transcription vendor publishes an accuracy percentage, and none of them mean the same thing by it. This is how word error rate is calculated, what it weighs equally that you do not, and a 20-minute test you can run on your own recordings.
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