v0.1.0  · early access
§05 / Questions

Everything we get asked.

The list grows as more people install MeetPing. If your question isn't here, email [email protected] — we'll answer, and the question often ends up on this page.

§05 / Frequently asked

Everything we get asked.

01How accurate is the keyword match? Will it false-fire on similar-sounding words?+
MeetPing matches against confirmed Parakeet output (not the volatile partials), with three strategies any-of: Unicode-aware word-boundary regex (catches exact ASR output, no substring false-fires), Soundex phonetic equality (so "Ogtay" still triggers when Parakeet hears "octay"/"october"), and bounded Levenshtein for typo-style mutations. Each match carries a confidence band so the popover tells you which strategy fired.
02Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack huddles, Discord?+
Yes. MeetPing reads from the system mic and (with screen recording permission) the system audio output, so it doesn't care which app produced the audio. Auto-arm detects all common meeting apps via bundle id + Chromium tab URL.
03What languages?+
Parakeet TDT v3 supports 25 European languages (English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, etc.). All run on the same on-device model — no language pack downloads.
04What's the latency from someone saying my name to the ping?+
Approximately 1.4–2.0 seconds end-to-end on M1+: that's the chunk window (3s with 1s hypothesis chunks) plus the keyword scan plus the alert hop. Tight enough to glance at the popover and respond without breaking flow.
05Battery impact?+
Parakeet on the Apple Neural Engine is designed for sustained streaming. Expect ~3–5% additional CPU on M1 Pro during an active meeting; the ANE itself is power-efficient and doesn't burn the main cores.
06Will my IT team approve this?+
Likely yes. v0.1 has no backend, no telemetry, and zero external network calls. The sandbox is off only because Core Audio Taps + FluidAudio's BNNS dylib loading require it; Hardened Runtime entitlements are documented and minimal.
07Can I change the past/future window from 30 + 30 seconds?+
Not in v0.1.0 — we're starting opinionated to validate the UX. If your meetings have a different cadence (say, you need 60s of past context for product reviews), open an issue and we'll add it.
08What if the ping fires when I'm not at my Mac?+
v0.1 covers the at-desk case (notification, sound, screen flash). Remote alerts ship in v0.2 — we're picking the channel (Telegram, Pushover, Slack DM, ntfy.sh) based on what users actually ask for in the first month. Email [email protected] if you have a strong opinion.