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Korean meeting transcription, written up for you.
Korean encodes seniority in the verb ending itself, so a transcript that gets the speech level right is also telling you the shape of the room.
Hangul is a featural alphabet grouped into syllable blocks, which makes Korean orthography comparatively regular — but the pronunciation rules that map speech onto it are not. Consonants assimilate across syllable boundaries, final consonants change or drop, and Korean distinguishes plain, aspirated and tense consonants in a three-way contrast that English does not have at all. Those distinctions carry meaning, so they are not cosmetic.
The honorific system runs through everything. Verb endings shift depending on the listener's seniority, and Korean business speech uses formal levels almost throughout, with juniors and seniors using different forms to each other in the same exchange. A faithful transcript preserves that, which incidentally tells a reader who was speaking to whom in what capacity — useful context when reviewing minutes weeks later.
Konglish is the everyday mixture: English loanwords adapted into Korean phonology, plus straight English business and technology vocabulary inside Korean sentences. Korean meetings also tend to be fast and overlapping, with a strong culture of in-person meetings, site visits and hoesik-adjacent discussion where decisions actually get made. GetNotes records the room from a phone, labels the speakers, and returns a summary with decisions and action items.
Where it earns its keep
A supplier or partner meeting in Seoul
Terms are discussed in Korean with English product and commercial vocabulary, in a meeting room, with a written follow-up expected quickly. Recording lets the most junior person in the room participate rather than typing throughout.
A manufacturing or site review
A production review in Korean, on a floor, with noise and several people contributing. Speaker-labelled transcription attributes each point, and the minutes come back as a list of actions with owners rather than as a wall of text.
A meeting with an overseas team
Korean staff discuss internally in Korean and address an overseas colleague in English within the same meeting. GetNotes transcribes both, and the minutes can be written in English for people who were not in the room.
How GetNotes works
- Record or upload. Hit record on your phone or laptop in the room — or drop in an audio file you already have. No bot joins anything.
- It writes it down. Every word transcribed, every speaker labelled, in 90+ languages including ones that switch mid-sentence.
- Share the minutes.Summary, decisions, and action items with owners — ready before everyone's back at their desk.
Questions, answered
Does GetNotes preserve Korean honorific speech levels?
Yes — the transcript reproduces what was said, including the formal and honorific verb endings that Korean business speech uses, rather than normalising everything to a neutral register. That keeps information about who was addressing whom, which is useful context when reading minutes back later.
Can it handle Konglish and English business terms?
Yes. Korean meetings use English product, technology and commercial vocabulary constantly — both as Konglish loanwords reshaped into Korean phonology and written in Hangul, and as straight English words dropped into Korean sentences. GetNotes transcribes each as it was spoken rather than forcing the recording into one language, so a term said in English stays legible as English in the record.
How well does it separate speakers in a fast Korean discussion?
GetNotes labels speakers automatically, so a quick overlapping exchange comes back attributed rather than merged. Korean gives the transcript an extra clue the labels alone do not: the speech level in each verb ending indicates whether someone is addressing a senior or a junior, so reading the minutes back you can usually tell who was talking to whom.
Can I record a discussion held outside the meeting room?
Technically yes — GetNotes records on a phone anywhere, and a great deal of Korean decision-making happens over dinner rather than at the table. Socially and legally it is a different question. Tell people you are recording and get their agreement first; recording colleagues without their knowledge is a poor idea regardless of what any tool makes possible.
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