Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline

Google has released an experimental note-taking app called Google AI Edge Foresight, which transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline. TechCrunch reported on the app earlier. Foresight is free to use and runs on macOS, relying on Google's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model rather than cloud processing.

The app works like other AI note-taking tools such as Granola and Wispr Flow: it summarizes meetings while also giving users a separate space to write their own notes. Google says users can jot down shorthand bullet points during a meeting, and the app will turn those points into what the company calls "polished notes," drawing on information contained in the transcript.

Beyond meetings, the app also handles audio files, according to the report. Foresight is described as experimental, and it is distributed by Google at no cost.

Why it matters: Because transcription and note generation happen on the device, the app does not require sending meeting audio to cloud servers, which is a different setup from the cloud-based AI note-taking apps it resembles. It is currently limited to macOS.