LexVoice

Record meetings in Obsidian, follow a live outline, and get organized notes and a mind-map overview, using your own transcription and AI services, with recordings and notes saved in your vault.

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_{A made-up example of the meeting overview.}

What it does

• Record: the microphone, system audio or both on desktop, with no virtual audio device needed on Windows; the microphone on mobile.
• Transcribe: live, after the meeting, or both. Speaker separation works where the service supports it.
• Follow along: a live outline updates as you record. During the meeting, jot notes, ask the AI a question, capture a todo, or add images and files.
• Organize: notes are generated from a template and named automatically, with a mind-map overview. Six templates are built in: General notes, Work meeting, Seminar, Interview, Personal notes and Learning notes. You can also write your own rules.
• Follow up: use Ask to check details against the notes and the raw transcript.
• Import: turn audio, MP4 screen recordings and text transcripts into notes, or watch a folder and import automatically.
• Reuse: people, todos, learning cards and hotwords become Markdown; notes about the same subject are gathered into topic pages.
• Share: generate an HTML report, a PDF report or an email draft.
• Recover: long recordings are processed in parts, and only unfinished parts are retried.

See the user manual for how each feature works.

Install

From the Obsidian Community plugins directory: open Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for LexVoice, then install and enable it.

Manual install:

1. Download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the same official GitHub Release.
2. Copy them into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/lexvoice/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable LexVoice under Community plugins.

When updating manually, replace only these three files and keep data.json and your vault files.

First recording

1. Open Home in LexVoice settings. Under Quick setup, choose a service, paste an API key and choose Test and enable. If you have no account, choose Sign up.
2. Open the LexVoice sidebar and choose a Template and Audio input.
3. Choose New recording and check that the level meter reacts. Fill in the name, speaker and outline in the note's Meeting info box, or leave it empty.
4. Watch the live outline and add in-meeting notes if needed.
5. Stop recording, then click the LexVoice status in the status bar to open the task center and follow transcription and AI organization. If processing was interrupted, continue from where it stopped.
6. Open Knowledge, choose Scan this note, and review people, todos, learning cards and hotwords.
7. To share, right-click a note in the Notes list, choose Generate, then an HTML report, PDF report or email draft.

Recordings go to LexVoice/录音 and notes to LexVoice/转写纪要 by default. Both can be changed in settings.

What's new in 3.1.0

• Meeting tasks retain saved progress across interruptions. Manually paused tasks stay paused.
• One card per meeting combines speech transcription and notes organization. Expand transcription to see the latest successful part and every failed part; retry only the unfinished work.
• Keep automatic transcription with manual notes organization, or continue automatically according to the meeting's saved preference.
• Abandoning moves a card to history. Clearing history removes it from the list while retaining source material and saved responses; abandoned work is excluded from retry counts.
• Theme-aware status icons, a compact history stack and continuous card movement make state changes easier to follow.
• Notes use context to clean up ASR and spoken-language noise, without asking the reader to check individual words.
• Merge selected notes into a new organized note; the originals remain available. MiMo segment boundaries preserve overlapping speech, and the condensed sidebar follows its panel background.

Requirements

• Obsidian 1.10.0 or later.
• A speech-to-text service, cloud API or local.
• An AI service is recommended: the live outline, organized notes, the overview, knowledge extraction and reports all use it.
• A virtual audio device to record system audio on macOS or Linux.

To use different services for different tasks, add them under Model services, then choose them in Transcription & AI.

The interface follows Obsidian's language and is available in Chinese, English and Japanese.

Privacy

No ads, no analytics, no telemetry, and no LexVoice server. Settings are stored in .obsidian/plugins/lexvoice/data.json; recordings and notes stay in your vault.

With a cloud service, the relevant audio, transcript text and prompt context are sent to the provider you chose. For sensitive content, prefer local transcription and a local model, and obtain consent before recording.

• Anything in the Meeting info box is always sent to the configured AI service, and to the transcription service if it accepts prompts. Leave it empty to send nothing from it.
• Preparation material is sent only after Use for transcription & AI is on. Turning it off does not recall requests already sent.
• Handwritten notes are not sent to AI when generating notes, overviews or reports; knowledge scans and AI polish on a whole note do read them.
• Automatic links and meeting topics is on by default. Background analysis may incur provider charges; it does not additionally send audio, paths or full verbatim transcripts. Turning it off does not undo content already written.

See PRIVACY.md for details.

FAQ

License & credits

Beginning with the 2.2.0 release line, new LexVoice material is distributed under the LexVoice Proprietary Software License. Development source code is no longer publicly released. Official JavaScript runtime files remain inspectable; that does not make this an open-source release or grant a right to redistribute the runtime or source code.

Personal and internal business use is permitted. Your recordings, notes, and exported reports may still be edited, shared, and commercially used, subject to rights in their contents. Unauthorized rebranding, repackaging, external redistribution (free or paid), resale, and white-label software offerings are prohibited. Local adjustments for your own permitted use are allowed; distributing a modified plugin is not.

Previously MIT-licensed releases, including 2.1.2, and previously MIT-licensed portions reused in later releases retain their original rights. See the preserved MIT notice. Third-party components retain their own licenses; see Third-Party Notices. Nothing here restricts mandatory legal rights or independent implementations of general ideas.

Closed-source distribution through the Obsidian community directory is subject to Obsidian's case-by-case review. This license change does not itself establish approval for the new distribution model.

The HTML slide-deck feature in earlier versions was inspired by alchaincyf/huashu-design; its HTML-first slide workflow and design principles influenced that work. Per the upstream license: Derived from alchaincyf/huashu-design.