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title: "Introduction"
description: "Introduction to AnythingLLM's Meeting Assistant"
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  **Note:** The Meeting Assistant is a **free** and **desktop exclusive** feature and is available in AnythingLLM Desktop v1.10.0 and later.

  The Meeting Assistant is a tool that helps you record, transcribe, and summarize meetings complete with agentic follow-up actions.
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  **Coming soon to Linux:** The Meeting Assistant is not yet available on Linux (both x64 and ARM64). This feature is currently only available on MacOS and Windows.
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# Meeting Assistant

The AnythingLLM Meeting Assistant is a tool that brings all the power of paid SaaS meeting assistants to your local device, all using local models with absolutely no data leaving your device.

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## The Meeting Assistant does this and more...
- Record and transcribe meetings
- Upload meetings or recordings that you have already have.
  - This includes podcasts, YouTube videos, or any other audio or video file.
- Identify speakers in the transcript
- Joined meeting notifications to start recording the meeting in the background
- Summarize meetings using your LLM provider and model of choice (Cloud or Local)
  - You can fully customize the summary prompt to your liking or use case and apply it to any meeting.
- Propose agentic follow-up actions based on the meeting summary and transcript to run in a click.
  - Every agent skill or MCP is now instantly available to the Meeting Assistant.
- Indexes and makes every meeting searchable
  - You can search for meetings by topic, speaker, date, or even semantically.
- Chat with your transcript to ask specific questions about the meeting.

**all of this done locally on your device - 100% free with no limits.**

## Watch the product overview

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## Performance & Privacy

### Privacy

All processing is done locally on your device - 100% free with no limits. We download a [transcription model](https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3) to support this feature
as needed on the first time a file is uploaded or a recording is made. These models are stored locally on your device for re-use.

Your meetings, recordings, and other files are never uploaded to **any** servers. They are all processed locally on your device and never leave your device.

_If you are using a cloud model, only the transcript is sent to produce your summary and follow-up actions. If you are using a local model everything is processed locally on your device._

### Performance

The Meeting Assistant is designed to be fast and efficient as possible on all ranges of hardware. That being said, your experience and speeds may vary depending on your hardware and the length of the meeting.

We currently have dedicated hardware to support that is highly performant on:
- Apple Silicon M-Series CPUs
- NVIDIA RTX GPUs

All other hardware is supported, but may not be as performant, but will still work and run exclusively on CPU.

### Supported Platforms
- [x] MacOS Silicon (M-Series)
- [x] MacOS Intel
- [x] Windows x64
- [x] Windows ARM64
- [ ] Linux x64 (Coming Soon)
- [ ] Linux ARM64 (Coming Soon)

### Minimum System Requirements

We recommend a minimum of 16GB of RAM to run the Meeting Assistant. All CPU architectures are supported.