Does an AI notetaker record you when you are muted?

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It depends where the recording happens. A notetaker that joins the call only receives what the meeting sends it, so a muted participant is missing from its transcript. A tool recording locally on your machine still hears your own microphone while you are muted, because mute is a meeting control, not an operating system one. Mute in Zoom, Teams or Meet stops your audio reaching the other participants. It was never designed to switch the microphone off for every other app on your computer, and it does not. So yes, plainly: while a Reline recording is running, your microphone keeps being captured during the stretch where the call shows you as muted. We would rather write that here than have someone find it in a transcript. If you need a private aside, pause or stop the recording first. Your operating system will also tell you. macOS shows a recording indicator in Control Center whenever the microphone is in use or was recently used, and Windows shows a microphone icon while an app is listening. That signal is independent of any app's own mute button. The mirror image is the part buyers miss. Because a bot only hears the stream the platform hands it, everything said while someone was muted is simply absent from its transcript, including the muted aside that explained a decision. Neither behaviour is wrong, they are just different recordings. Practical rule for any tool: treat mute as a courtesy to the room, not as a privacy control. Reline captures locally on your machine, transcription and AI summaries run in the cloud, and Reline does not claim on-device AI.

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