Voice Notes

Voice notes let you capture thoughts, meetings, or spoken content by recording audio. Atlas handles the rest — transcription, summarization, and saving to your vault as a structured note.

The Three-Step Process

Recording a voice note works in three steps:

1. Record

Open the voice note recorder (the waveform icon in the toolbar). Press Record and start speaking. You can record for any length of time — a quick 30-second thought or a 45-minute meeting.

When you’re done, press Stop.

2. Process

After you stop recording, Atlas processes the audio:

• The recording is split into chunks (roughly 2 minutes each) for reliable transcription
• Each chunk is transcribed on your own device by Whisper Base — the audio is never uploaded
• The transcribed chunks are merged into a single, continuous transcript
• Atlas generates an AI summary with key topics and action items, using the local language model
• A quality report is included showing confidence scores for the transcription

Long recordings take longer to process. A 10-minute recording might take 20–30 seconds. You’ll see a progress indicator while it works.

3. Review

Before anything is saved, you see the full results:

• Transcript — the complete text of what was said
• AI summary — key points, topics, and any action items Atlas identified
• Quality report — confidence indicators that flag any parts of the transcription that may be inaccurate

You can edit the transcript directly before saving. If a word was misheard or a proper noun was wrong, fix it here. The summary is regenerated from your edits.

When you’re happy with the result, click Save to Vault. The note is saved to your vault with structured frontmatter including the date, duration, and topics.

What Gets Saved

Voice notes are saved as Markdown files in your vault. Each note includes:

---
type: voice-note
date: 2026-02-24
duration: 8m 14s
topics: [meeting, Q2 planning, action items]
---

## Summary
...

## Transcript
...

You can find them in your vault like any other note, search them with Atlas, or link them from other notes.

Phone Call Recording

Voice notes include a phone call recording mode for capturing a two-person conversation. Select Phone Call in the recorder before you start. Atlas records the call and transcribes it on your device into a single, continuous transcript — it does not separate or label individual speakers. This mode works best with clear audio where people don’t talk over each other.

Caution

Always inform other parties before recording a phone call. Recording laws vary by location — make sure you have appropriate consent before recording conversations with others.

Note

Voice notes run entirely on your device — the audio is transcribed locally by Whisper Base and never uploaded, so recording and transcription work even offline. If you also use Atlas’s spoken replies, installing the optional espeak-ng package improves pronunciation (see Text-to-Speech).