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ChromeOS Recorder: A Smarter Way to Capture and Summarize Audio

The ChromeOS Recorder is an advanced audio recording application designed to seamlessly integrate with the ChromeOS ecosystem. More than just a simple voice recorder, this tool leverages Google's AI-powered Gemini to provide real-time transcription, intelligent summaries, and searchable recordings—enhancing productivity for students, professionals, and content creators.

Key Features

High-Quality Audio Recording

ChromeOS Recorder captures crisp and clear audio, making it an ideal tool for lectures, meetings, interviews, and personal voice notes.

Real-Time Transcription

On supported ChromeOS devices, recordings are automatically transcribed with remarkable accuracy. This means you can search through your past recordings by text—no need to listen through entire audio files.

AI-Powered Summaries with Gemini

For devices equipped with Google's Gemini AI, the Recorder app can automatically generate concise summaries of your recordings, making it easier to review key points without having to replay the full audio.

Smart Search for Audio

Transcriptions are fully indexed, allowing you to search for specific words or phrases within your recordings. This makes retrieving important information faster and more efficient.

Cloud Sync and Offline Support

Recordings and transcriptions can be saved to Google Drive for easy access across devices. Additionally, the app works offline, ensuring that you can record and review your audio even when you're not connected to the internet.

Who Should Use ChromeOS Recorder?

  • Students – Easily record and transcribe lectures, making studying more efficient.
  • Professionals – Capture meetings, interviews, and brainstorming sessions with searchable transcriptions.
  • Journalists & Content Creators – Quickly generate summaries and find key quotes without manually listening to entire recordings.
  • Anyone – Use it as a personal voice memo tool to capture thoughts, ideas, and reminders.

Availability

ChromeOS Recorder is available on select ChromeOS devices and can be accessed via the ChromeOS App Launcher. For the best experience, ensure your Chromebook is updated to the latest version of ChromeOS and has Gemini AI capabilities enabled.

Initial Setup

When you first launch the ChromeOS Recorder, you will need to complete a simple setup.

Select "Next" to start the setup.

The ChromeOS Audio Recorder will ask if you wish to enable the transcription option. All audio transcriptions are done offline using a small machine learning model that must be downloaded to your device. This will model will use around 100 MB of your device storage.

The final phase of the ChromeOS Recorder setup will ask you if you wish to enable the option to allow the application to detect speakers. This option will allow the ChromeOS Recorder to detect each individual speaker and label each speaker in the audio transcript.

Recording

Transcription

The ChromeOS Recorder has a option to export the recordings and transcripts. If you have the option to allow ChromeOS to detect speakers, your audio transcript will be labeled by speaker. It will not identify speakers by name, but each will be labeled "Speaker 1", "Speaker 2", "Speaker 3", etc.

Speaker 1

I am in Long Hivayan. I am on my way to the next Airbnb.
Now, it's my first time.
How long have you been in SpongeBob '90s?
Wow, are you not Frozen yet?
It is so cold.
It's like -20 All good.
Thank you. I will try and not get eaten by a pole of a. What's your name?
Sorry, Nice to meet. You have a good day.
Thank you In the middle of nowhere, and I think this is it.
I'm not joking, it's literally -20. The snow is thick on the floor. I think this is it.
It's like a wooden cabin. I hope there's no dogs or Huskies here.

Speaker 3
Hi Christine, how are you?

Gemini Integration

If you have a Chromebook Device with Google Gemini support, you will be able to take advantage of summarization in addition to transcriptions. This process takes place offline and requires the download of a specialized machine learning model that will take approximately 2 GB of device storage. If you have a supported device, you will be given the option to download the machine learning model. This is a one-time download that will apply to all future recordings

If you have summarization enabled, you will be given the option to view the recording summary once a recording has been completed.