Millet is free, open-source desktop software for recording meetings, transcribing speech, and producing summaries, action items, and PDFs on Linux and macOS. It is listed for meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Keet, Jitsi Meet, Webex, Skype, FaceTime, GoTo Meeting, RingCentral, Amazon Chime, and BlueJeans. On Linux, microphone and system audio are recorded on separate channels. Whisper large-v3-turbo supports 99 languages; English, German, French, Spanish, Turkish, and Farsi are listed as tested. Summaries can include an overview, key topics, decisions, action items, and open questions or follow-ups. Exports include TXT, SRT, JSON, Markdown, and PDF. After models are downloaded, transcription, diarization, and PDF output work offline. Summaries use either a hardware-attested Tinfoil TEE or local Ollama. Tinfoil is listed at approximately $0.03 per meeting, while Ollama is free. Transcripts and summaries can be pushed to any Git repository on a schedule.
Who it is for
Millet suits Linux users who need meeting recordings, transcripts, and structured summaries across many call apps. macOS users can process captured sessions, but audio capture requires Linux.
What is good
- Free and open source
- Supports many meeting services
- Exports several text and document formats
- Offline transcription after downloads
- Offers local Ollama summaries
What to know first
- Windows is unsupported
- Alpha software
- Overlapping speech is handled poorly
- Diarization needs a Hugging Face token
Verdict
Millet combines desktop capture with transcription, structured meeting notes, and multiple export formats. Its Linux-first capture model and alpha status matter when choosing it, especially for users needing macOS capture or Windows support.
Compared on AI meeting assistants
- Transcription
- Yes
- Summaries and action items
- Yes
- Meeting capture
- desktop
- Meeting platforms
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Discord, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Keet, Jitsi Meet, Webex, Skype, FaceTime, GoTo Meeting, RingCentral, Amazon Chime, BlueJeans
