Microphone Meetings

Use a microphone for an authorised in-person meeting, interview, or speakerphone call.

Setup

Open New recording, a meeting draft, or start from a matter.
Select Meeting mode.
Choose Microphone as the source.
Select the correct input device.

Before you record

Confirm the authority and participant notices required by the firm.
Place the microphone centrally so each speaker is audible.
Use a quiet room and reduce background noise.
Ask participants to avoid talking over one another where practical.
At the start, ask each person to state their name and role.

Recording

Select Start.
Conduct the meeting.
Select Pause to save the current part.
Resume if you need another part.
Review the timeline and select Finalise.

Pause does not begin transcription. After Finalise, Ardela runs batch transcription and separates detected voices into labelled segments.

Speaker detection

Ardela can use an expected speaker count when that control is available. This is a hint to the transcription process, not an identity check.

After transcription

Open the Transcript tab.
Review every speaker label.
Rename labels to the correct person or role.
Correct misattributed or incorrect speech.
Replay important passages against the audio.
Generate a separate draft note when the transcript is ready.

Continue recording

Return to the Recorder tab of a draft meeting to append more audio. If audio is added after transcription, Finalise the revised timeline and wait for its matching transcript.