Menu bar and meeting auto-detect

Sonasi Meetings has an icon in the macOS menu bar and keeps running when you close the main window, so you can start recording at any time.

The menu bar panel

Click the sound wave icon in the menu bar (the icon changes to a recording dot while you record). The panel includes:

• Status: Idle, Listening, or Recording, with the elapsed time.
• A Start recording or Stop & save button, with an audio level bar.
• The current language pair. Click it to open the main window, where you can change the languages.
• The Auto-detect meetings switch and the Snooze 15 min button.
• Open Sonasi, Settings, Quit.

The panel has no Pause or Cancel button. If something needs your attention (no target language chosen, a missing permission, the daily limit reached), the app opens the main window for you.

Meeting auto-detect

When it's on, Sonasi Meetings suggests starting a recording when it notices you've joined a call. This feature is on by default. It only suggests; it never records without asking you.

The app detects meetings in two ways:

1. A microphone starts being used by another app. This is a lightweight system check, and no audio is captured.
2. A well-known meeting app opens: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, RingCentral, Discord.

Google Meet in a browser isn't on the list of known apps, but it's still detected the first way when the browser starts using the microphone.

When a meeting is detected, a small card appears in the top-right corner of your screen for about 15 seconds:

• Record: start recording right away.
• Not now: skip it this time.
• Don't ask for [app] again: stop suggesting for that app.

The list of ignored apps is in Settings → Menu bar & auto-record → Ignored apps. Click Remove to be prompted again.

Also detect by sound

The same settings group has an advanced option, Also detect by sound, which is off by default. When it's on, the app opens the microphone to listen for speech continuously. This uses more battery.

Other options

In Settings → Menu bar & auto-record:

• Launch at login: opens Sonasi automatically when you log in (off by default). macOS may ask you to approve it in System Settings.
• Show Dock icon: turn it off to keep Sonasi in the menu bar only (on by default).