Desktop Recording SDK

Build vs. Buy

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Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

MacOS Native Recording APIs

Reliability

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Always works, across all operating system versions, network conditions, and virtual audio device configurations

MacOS Native Recording APIs

The straightforward implementation gets you 98% reliability

Transcript Speaker Names

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Enriches the transcript with the names of all speakers

MacOS Native Recording APIs

No speaker names

Participant Metadata

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Participant join / leave events

MacOS Native Recording APIs

No participant metadata

Video

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Real-time, participant separated video, and clean MP4 recording after

MacOS Native Recording APIs

You can record the entire Zoom window, but that captures the UI

Audio

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Get real-time audio streams

MacOS Native Recording APIs

Get real-time audio streams

Screen Share

Recall.ai Desktop Recording SDK

Capture screenshares from your user, and from the meeting

MacOS Native Recording APIs

Can only capture other people’s screenshare

// Initialize the Recall AI SDK
RecallAiSdk.init({
  api_url: API_URL
});

// When a meeting is detected, get an upload token and start recording
RecallAiSdk.addEventListener ("meeting-detected", async (evt) -> {
  const { window: { id } } = evt;
  const { upload_token } = await createDesktopSdkUpload();

  RecallAiSdk.startRecording({
    windowId: id, 
    uploadToken: upload_token
  });
});

Get started with:

Desktop SDK Github repo

API docs