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A look at what we ship, what we learn, and how teams use live transcription and translation to work better together.
Kalima Team3 min read
How to Transcribe a Medical Lecture or Conference Talk
The worry with a medical talk is always the terminology, and it is mostly the wrong worry. The model handles clinical vocabulary as a matter of course. What it cannot know is your ward abbreviations, the speaker's surname or an internal study code, and that short list is what context is for.
Kalima Team8 min read
Google Meet Transcription Button Missing or Transcript Not Generated
If the transcription button is missing in Google Meet, you are most likely on the wrong Workspace edition, on a phone, or in a meeting whose host has not allowed it. This guide sorts the causes and shows a live transcript that runs on your own computer instead.
Kalima Team7 min read
Teams Transcription Greyed Out or Not Available? Causes and a Workaround
When Teams refuses to transcribe, the reason is almost always a setting you cannot reach: an admin policy, a licence on someone else's tenant, or the fact that you are a guest. This guide walks through the causes and shows a transcript that does not depend on any of them.
Kalima Team8 min read
How to Transcribe a Zoom Meeting You Do Not Host
Zoom's own transcript is the host's to start and the host's to keep. If you joined someone else's meeting and need the words afterwards, you can still capture them, on your own device, with nothing added to the participant list.
Kalima Team7 min read
Zoom Transcript Not Available? Why, and How to Get One Anyway
A Zoom recording without a transcript is usually a setting that was off before the meeting started, a recording saved to the host's computer instead of Zoom's cloud, or processing that has not finished. This guide checks each cause and shows a transcript that is ready when the meeting ends.
Kalima Team7 min read
Why No Bot Joins Your Meeting
Most transcription tools send a bot to join your call. Kalima captures the audio already on your device, so there is no extra participant, no awkward consent moment, and no surprise guest in the room.
Kalima Team5 min read
Live Captions That Keep Pace With the Conversation
Captions are only useful when they keep up. When words appear as they are spoken and highlight in step with the speaker, the whole room can follow along live.
Kalima Team4 min read
How to Capture Desktop Audio for Demos and Webinars
Your mic only hears the room. When you play a demo, a webinar clip, or shared media, desktop audio capture puts that sound into the transcript too, live and in the same record.
Kalima Team5 min read
Inside Our Low-Latency Pipeline
Live captions only feel live when they arrive while the words still hang in the air. Here is a plain look at why latency matters and the principles that keep it low.
Kalima Team6 min read
Best Meeting Transcription Software for Teams
The best meeting transcription software does more than record. It helps people follow the meeting live, search the record later, and share context fast.
Kalima Team6 min read
Live Translation for Multilingual Meetings
Live translation lets people follow a meeting while it happens, instead of hours later when the recap lands.
Kalima Team5 min readGet the latest from Kalima.
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