It joins the call, takes the notes, and sends you the recap.
OpenRecapper is an open-source meeting bot that sits in on your voice calls and does the busywork: it records the conversation, produces a speaker-labeled transcript, and writes a structured AI summary — overview, key points, open questions, references, and action items — then emails it to the group.
Built by The Yak Collective for our weekly study-group calls, and free for anyone to self-host.
There's no “Add to Discord” button — and that's on purpose. OpenRecapper is self-hosted: there's no shared bot to invite. You create your own Discord application, bring your own Deepgram key, and run your own instance. The setup guide walks through it — about 15 minutes. It runs anywhere Node 22 does; we run ours on an exe.dev VM and recommend it.
Type /record and it joins the voice channel. Auto-stops when everyone leaves. Supports Discord's end-to-end encrypted voice.
High-quality Deepgram Nova-3 transcription with speaker diarization, plus an optional live transcript streamed as people talk.
An AI recap after every call: overview, key points, questions & disagreements, references, action items, and notable quotes.
Emails the summary and full transcript to the group, with cloud download links for the recordings. Nothing to chase down later.
OpenRecapper started as a Discord bot, but the recap engine — transcription, summarization, and delivery — is platform-agnostic. We're working toward dropping it into other calling platforms too.
Discord today — Zoom, Google Meet, YouTube Live, and Jitsi on the roadmap.
in progressOpenRecapper is developed in the open. Read the code, file issues, or self-host your own instance — you bring your own Discord application, Deepgram key, and (optional) storage and LLM keys. There is no hosted or shared instance; every operator runs and pays for their own.