A local recording API enables developers to capture meeting conversations across virtual and in-person environments, operating systems, and meeting platforms. It provides access to meeting audio streams, which developers need to build meeting recording products.

If you want a solution that works reliably across operating systems and meeting platforms, Recall.ai’s Desktop Recording SDK provides production-ready meeting recording infrastructure without requiring developers to handle the many edge cases themselves. Otherwise, developers can piece together their own solution using a combination of the tools discussed above.

Frameworks like ScreenCaptureKit and AVFoundation can be used for video recording, but they come with limitations around capturing audio. As a result, developers often need to combine multiple APIs and tools to build a desktop recording app. Alternatively, you can use Recall.ai’s Desktop Recording SDK to avoid this complexity.

Electron DesktopCapturer is an Electron API that allows developers to select which screen and window to record. Since DesktopCapturer only handles screen and window selection, to record an entire meeting developers must also write code to capture system and microphone audio.

Recall.ai's Desktop Recording SDK captures audio, video, and transcripts with speaker labels directly on Windows and macOS for all of the major meeting platforms.

In contrast, a Desktop Recording SDK provides access to meeting data beyond just audio and handles many of the audio-related edge cases required for production-ready meeting recording out of the box, including echo cancellation, mute-state detection, microphone selection, and audio isolation.

The Desktop Recording SDK supports both Windows and macOS devices and is designed to work reliably across different operating systems and hardware versions.

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We’ve seen production deployments in just a few days for teams with an existing desktop app.