Meetings

Name speakers and voice recognition

Name outside speakers, and turn recognition of your own voice on or off.

Timeglass names the people in a transcript for you where it can. You can name anyone it missed, such as a client or partner.

How speakers are named

  • People recording with Timeglass are named from their own microphone.
  • Teammates who turned on voice recognition are named from their voice, even when they aren’t recording.
  • Everyone else may be named from what was said and who was in the meeting, or shown as Unknown speaker.

Unnamed speakers who barely spoke are grouped as Other speakers.

Name a speaker

  1. Open the meeting
    In the Timeglass web app, select Meetings and open a meeting that has ended.
  2. Select the speaker
    Select a speaker’s chip or their name in the transcript. A box opens asking Who is this speaker? If the speaker already has a name, the box is titled Rename followed by that name.
  3. Enter the name
    Pick someone from the meeting or type a name, add a company if you like, then select Save.

The new name appears in the transcript, downloads, and shared links right away. The report updates with it within a few minutes.

Turn voice recognition on or off

Open the desktop app and go to Settings → Meetings. Under Speaker names, turn on Recognize my voice. Timeglass keeps a voiceprint of you, learned from meetings you record, so transcripts name you.

This is each person’s own choice. Your workspace can’t turn it on for you. Turning it off deletes your voiceprint, and you can still be named from your own microphone.

What happens to other voices

To tell speakers apart, Timeglass compares voices within each meeting. That voice data is deleted once the meeting is processed. Only people who turned on Recognize my voice have a lasting voiceprint.

Common questions

How do I fix a speaker’s name?

In the web app, open the meeting, select the speaker’s chip or their name in the transcript, enter the name, and select Save. The report updates within a few minutes.

Can I name a teammate this way?

Speaker naming is for people outside your workspace. Teammates are named from their own microphone or, if they turned on Recognize my voice, from their voice.

What does “Other speakers” mean?

It groups unnamed speakers who spoke only briefly. During a live meeting, everyone Timeglass hasn’t recognized yet is grouped there.

Does Timeglass keep a voiceprint of me?

Only if you turn on Recognize my voice under Settings → Meetings → Speaker names in the desktop app. Turning it off deletes your voiceprint.

Does Timeglass keep voiceprints of the people I meet with?

No. Voice data used to tell speakers apart is deleted once the meeting is processed. The only lasting voiceprints belong to teammates who turned on Recognize my voice themselves.