Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac

Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac(openparrot.app)

15 points by turantekin 4 hours ago | 7 comments

Hello Hacker News

I am Uygar, I am an entrepreneur from London. I run my businesses on calls everyday, customers, partners and suppliers. And i have a horrible memory i forgot things. So months ago with the help of Claude i have built Parrot. I have designed and coded for my work and what i need. An to be honest worked very well and helped me alot.

Parrot records what your mac hears and everything stays in your computer if you use local models, no account, no API calls. There is something called copilot which made my life easier, you can upload your files and when parrot hears that question on the screen recommends the answer. Which i believe very handy.

If you want to make it smarter and dont mind cloud you can hook up your Claude API and Deepgram account, that gives super powers to Parrot. You still keep it locally but eventually you need to make API calls.

So local or cloud totally up to you.

Then after months of thinking i have decided share it as open source and this is my first open source project, so please go easy on me :)

No account, no membership, open source and free.

Code: https://github.com/turantekin/Parrot

This project made me so excited and really would like to share with you guys so i hope can help you too. Again, i am new so go easy on me and if you have any feedback i would like to hear.

Thank you Uygar

joshstrange 46 minutes ago |

Tried this out, and it might be due to other apps on my computer or something but the audio it records has a echo. When I go to play back a speaker's voice it sounds I can hear what sounds like 2 audio streams, slightly offset. Maybe it's something to do with SoundSource/ARC or my other meeting transcribing app.

One more feature I'd love is the ability to export the text/transcript in markdown automatically. I have another tool (MeetingTranscriber) that does this and I like that so I can put the transcripts in my Obsidian Vault which I already expose to the various agents I use.

elektor 10 minutes ago | |

What is the url of the MeetingTranscribe tool? Google is giving me generic results.

moecables 2 hours ago |

instead of calling it "co-pilot" maybe call it something like "Coach", Assistant, or anything that doesn't connect it to Copilot from Microsoft b/c that's what I thought it meant

turantekin 53 minutes ago | |

Agree. I don’t know why I called it copilot assistant sounds good. I will work on that tomorrow thank thank you so much.

1shooner 1 hour ago | |

I agree, 'copilot' is overloaded even within the Microsoft portfolio.

turantekin 52 minutes ago | | |

Yeah you are right. I will work on that!

nilleb 1 hour ago |

amazing! Great initiative, thank you! I have contributed to a similar app (called Recap) a few months ago and wanted to change it to something similar to Parrot - you anticipated me, thank you!

turantekin 54 minutes ago | |

Great! Well I had been using it for myself for a long time for my work. Plus I am enjoying building it, so much fun. Any feedback please feel free to reach me.