Meeting notes in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay and Filipino
Audiee.ai transcribes meetings in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay and Filipino on a Mac, without a bot joining the call — and it keeps the English that South-East Asian meetings are full of. Notes come out in the language of the meeting, and you can ask questions about them later in that language or in English.
Why do most meeting-notes tools skip these languages?
Their speech engines were built for English first and European languages second. The usual language list runs through French, German, Spanish and Japanese and stops; Vietnamese sometimes makes it, Thai, Indonesian, Malay and Filipino rarely do. Granola's desktop list has Vietnamese and none of the other four, and its mobile app transcribes one language per meeting (checked October 2026). A Jakarta standup or a Manila customer call gets an English-only recorder guessing.
What Audiee.ai does differently
- Five South-East Asian languages, first-class. The same speech engine that handles Mandarin, Cantonese and English — the one Audiee.ai was built around — recognizes Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay and Filipino.
- English mixed in stays English. "Kita confirm dulu sama vendor, then follow up next week" is one sentence; product names, numbers and the English half are kept as said, not forced into the other language.
- Pick the language once. Choose it on the Start-meeting card (or set your default in Settings); the engine still follows English switches inside it.
- Notes in the meeting's language. Summary, action items, waiting-on and follow-ups come out in Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay or Filipino as spoken; ask for English afterwards if you need it for a colleague.
- Names survive. People and places you correct once are recognized next time.
How to set it up
- Start a meeting from the Start-meeting card and pick the language; English words inside it are kept as said.
- For dictation outside meetings: Settings → Dictation → Spoken language, where the same five languages are listed.
- Translate mode: hold Ctrl+Shift while speaking and the translation gets typed.
Where does the audio go?
Audio goes out only for transcription, to speech providers in Singapore, and comes back as text. Transcripts and notes stay on your Mac as Markdown. Nothing joins the call. The trust page has the full routing.
An honest note
Chinese and English mixed is what Audiee.ai has spent the longest on; the five South-East Asian languages run on the same engine and the same code, and they are newer in the product. If a meeting in one of them comes out wrong, send us thirty seconds of it — hello@audiee.ai — and we will look at exactly what happened.