[oersted]

There's still a surprising lack of good video call recording services that can be controlled programmatically, unlike the end-to-end SaaS apps like Read.ai or Otter.ai.

The only open-source one I could find is Amurex, which looks promising. But it only supports Google Meet for now, it does it a bit differently with a Chrome extension, and it is generally rather immature, but I do wish them the best.

The only API services available are Recall.ai and MeetingBaaS, they both support the big three (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom), but they are rather expensive at $0.5 - $1 per hour. The Calendar Syncing feature is also locked behind enterprise tiers with additional monthly fees in the hundreds, and it is rather important real-world use.

[jtswole]

Hey there

The creator of Amurex here. Thank you for the kind words :D More platform support is coming very soon ;) (read next week)

> The only API services available are Recall.ai and MeetingBaaS, they both support the big three (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom), but they are rather expensive at $0.5 - $1 per hour.

seems like someone has told you our internal roadmap xD but I am glad to see we are on the right track to solve the problem :D

[oersted]

You are doing great work, and I do think making it open-source is a smart strategic choice. There's still so much potential for building AI intelligence products on top of video call recordings, and right now you are offering the only practical foundation to build such systems on.

I've been keeping a close eye because $1/h is unsustainable for what we are building, and there's no good reason why it should cost so much. It's manageable for early traction, but soon we'll need to consider either to build all those integrations ourselves or to build on top of Amurex. We might be contributing soon.

I did see in GitHub that Teams support was almost done, exciting! Do you plan to continue with the browser extension model, or are you also looking for solutions to record meetings that happen in the Teams/Zoom native client?

I think this is why most companies do it by creating a bot that joins the meeting, it's also great free advertising for them. Of course it's a bit awkward for the user, but it's becoming a normal thing, and ethically it's better to be explicit about the fact you are recording.

[jtswole]

> You are doing great work, and I do think making it open-source is a smart strategic choice. There's still so much potential for building AI intelligence products on top of video call recordings, and right now you are offering the only practical foundation to build such systems on.

Thank you :D

> I've been keeping a close eye because $1/h is unsustainable for what we are building, and there's no good reason why it should cost so much. It's manageable for early traction, but soon we'll need to consider either to build all those integrations ourselves or to build on top of Amurex. We might be contributing soon.

Sounds great! We are super happy to support all the integrations. If you can message me on discord, I'd be super keen to hear what you have to say.

> I did see in GitHub that Teams support was almost done, exciting! Do you plan to continue with the browser extension model, or are you also looking for solutions to record meetings that happen in the Teams/Zoom native client?

Coming soon ;)

> I think this is why most companies do it by creating a bot that joins the meeting, it's also great free advertising for them. Of course it's a bit awkward for the user, but it's becoming a normal thing, and ethically it's better to be explicit about the fact you are recording.

The problem with bots is that

- first, they are annoying. - second, I have a tendency to reject all the bots joining my meeting because they are annoying, which deems the bot products practically useless.

And you raise a good point about ethics, we expect the users to be grown up about their decisions. The users are expected to act according to their state laws.

I grew up reading and being influenced by liberation in FOSS software. I don't really want to impose our own "laws" on a user if their state says otherwise.

[Erazal]

Creator of MeetingBaaS here (sorry for the double ping), you actually start lower than $1 / hour, rather $0.69 / hour and that scales down quite fast

Unfortunately cloud infrastructure has a cost :/

[nduncan_hmc]

Hey there, I'm building an open source Recall at https://github.com/noah-duncan/attendee, designed for convenient self-hosting. It's fairly immature but other engineers are starting to contribute and things are picking up. Pretty sure it's the only open source example of a google meet bot that can extract audio, video, transcript and speak in the meeting.

[Erazal]

Hey :)

Creator of MeetingBaas here

We're actually thinking of open-sourcing our bots too!