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

Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental note-taking app for macOS that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. The app, similar to Granola and Wispr Flow, summarizes meetings and converts shorthand bullet points into "polished notes" based on the transcript. The release was reported earlier by TechCrunch.

Google’s AI note-taking app transcribes your meetings completely offline By Emma RothSource: The Verge AI https://www.theverge.com Google has released an experimental note-taking app that can transcribe meetings and audio files entirely offline, as reported earlier by TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/google-releases-a-new-local-first-granola-competitor/ . The app, called Google AI Edge Foresight https://developers.google.com/edge/foresight , is free to use and runs on macOS using the company's on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model https://www.theverge.com/tech/1005886/google-launches-the-next-version-of-its-on-device-ai-model . Similar to AI note-taking apps like Granola and Wispr Flow, Foresight summarizes your meetings while providing a space where you can take your own notes. Google says you can jot down shorthand bullet points during your meeting, and the app will transform them into "polished notes" based on the information in the transcript. Along with transcribing your meetings, For … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.