Mandarin and English meeting transcription for Mac

Brieva transcribes Mandarin meetings live on your Mac, including meetings that switch between Mandarin and English mid-sentence. The audio is never uploaded: transcription and summaries run on your Mac's own chip, and once set up it works offline.

Mixed Mandarin and English, as spoken

Many meetings move between the two languages: a Mandarin discussion with English product names, or a call that changes language when someone joins. Choose Mandarin for the meeting and Brieva writes both as they are spoken, Chinese in Simplified characters and English as English words, in one transcript.

Choose the language for each meeting

A language menu sits beside Start Transcribing. Pick Mandarin for this meeting, or make it the default in Settings > Transcription language. Brieva remembers each meeting's language, so a recurring meeting starts in the language it used last time. The first time you choose Mandarin, Brieva downloads it once.

If Brieva hears Mandarin in a meeting set to English and the European languages, it says so and offers Switch for that meeting. It works the other way round too.

Summaries and minutes in Chinese or English

Summaries and minutes are written in English unless you choose otherwise. Choose "In the meeting's language" in Settings, or change it for one meeting after the summary, and they are written in Chinese instead.

Who said what

Brieva groups the transcript by voice and lets you name each voice, as in English meetings. Telling voices apart works about as well in Mandarin as in English; treat it as an aid, not a record.

Private, with no bot in the call

Audio, transcripts and summaries never leave your Mac. There is no account and nothing joins the call: Brieva listens to the sound on your Mac, so it works with Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Tencent Meeting, Lark, WeChat or any other app that plays audio.

Good to know

• Chinese is written in Simplified Chinese and does not yet support Cantonese.
• Mandarin is new in Brieva 1.0.7.
• Apple silicon Mac, macOS 14.4 or later. US$25 once, 14-day free trial, no card needed.

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