Notes from the cockpit.
What we figured out building MeetPing. Engineering writeups on Parakeet, phonetic matching, and FluidAudio. Product reasoning on the 30+30 window. Honest guides for people in too many meetings.
The overemployed meeting survival kit
Two calls deep, three browsers open, and the meeting where someone's about to ask you something. A workflow that holds up.
Running Parakeet TDT v3 on Mac with FluidAudio
Streaming chunks, ANE constraints, and the ~1.4 s first-partial budget that shapes everything downstream.
Mac meeting tools, honestly compared (2026)
Six tools for six different problems. Notes vs alerts vs dictation vs noise. Pick the right one and stop stacking.
Why 30 seconds before, 30 seconds after
Working memory holds about 30 seconds of conversational thread. Below that you're rewinding. Above it you're reading.
Phonetic match fixes name detection
Parakeet hears 'Ogtay' as 'octaye' or 'october'. Soundex maps both to O323. Levenshtein catches the rest.
Why on-device ASR matters for meeting tools
Cloud ASR adds 250 ms of round-trip and a security review. ANE-resident Parakeet runs locally and never opens a socket.