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Does Fathom join the call as a bot?
Fathom records by joining your meeting as a bot on cloud platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, so a Fathom participant appears in the call. Reline takes a different approach entirely: it captures mic and system audio locally on your computer, so nothing joins the meeting and no one sees a recorder.
Short answer
Fathom records by joining your meeting as a bot on cloud platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, so a Fathom participant appears in the call. Reline takes a different approach entirely: it captures mic and system audio locally on your computer, so nothing joins the meeting and no one sees a recorder.
The details
- Because Reline's capture is local, it also works for in-person meetings and any audio your computer can hear — not only supported video platforms.
- You get the same deliverables — transcript, action items, citation-backed summary — without a bot in the room.
- Transcription is multilingual (60+ languages) and runs in the cloud; audio is stored in Cloudflare R2 and never used to train third-party models.
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