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Notes from building Minuta

Engineering posts, product decisions, and field notes from building a meeting assistant with local capture and cloud AI.

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AI meeting copilot
The central hub for answering live during difficult English calls.
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No plugin · no bot · no extension
Desktop audio capture — no browser extension or meeting bot required.
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Zoom · real-time EN ↔ PT/ES translation
Side-by-side translation during Zoom, Teams, or Meet, using cloud processing.
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Blog·October 19, 2026·8 min
AI meeting copilot: real-time answers in English, Portuguese and Spanish
How an AI meeting copilot suggests answers during live calls in English, Portuguese and Spanish: question detection, answer language, context documents, examples and honest limits.
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Blog·October 18, 2026·7 min
How to translate English meetings in real time (Zoom, Teams and Meet)
A practical guide to real-time meeting translation: captions vs translation vs interpretation, a step-by-step setup for Zoom, Teams and Meet, honest limits, and phrases to ask for clarification without freezing.
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Blog·May 14, 2026·6 min
AI meeting copilots vs AI notetakers: why notes are too late
AI notetakers help after the meeting with transcripts, summaries, CRM notes, and team memory. AI meeting copilots help during the meeting, when the risk is not knowing what to say next.
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Blog·May 14, 2026·7 min
The discovery-call questions that decide a technical deal
Eight high-impact discovery-call questions sales engineers and technical consultants need to answer cleanly: integration, security, pricing, migration risk, scale, ownership, timeline, and competitor comparison.
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Blog·May 14, 2026·6 min
How to answer technical questions in English meetings
A practical answer framework for sales engineers, consultants, and tech leads who know the technical answer but freeze when they need to explain it in English under pressure.
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Historical article·April 27, 2026·6 min
How we run Whisper locally on Apple Silicon
Engineering history from an earlier version. Current Minuta uses local audio capture and cloud AI; this article does not describe the current product.
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Notes from building Minuta

Guides for your next meeting

AI meeting copilot

No plugin · no bot · no extension

Zoom · real-time EN ↔ PT/ES translation

AI meeting copilot: real-time answers in English, Portuguese and Spanish

How to translate English meetings in real time (Zoom, Teams and Meet)

AI meeting copilots vs AI notetakers: why notes are too late

The discovery-call questions that decide a technical deal

How to answer technical questions in English meetings

How we run Whisper locally on Apple Silicon