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Malayalam meeting transcription, written up for you.
Malayalam is spoken fast and glued together by sandhi, so the hard part is not hearing the words — it is knowing where one ends.
Malayalam is agglutinative and applies sandhi aggressively: adjacent words fuse at their boundaries so that a phrase is pronounced as a single unbroken run of sound. Combined with a genuinely quick speech rate, that makes segmentation the central transcription problem, not phoneme recognition. The script matches the challenge — a large character inventory with stacked conjuncts, plus chillu letters for word-final consonants, and both an older and a reformed orthography still in circulation.
Manglish is the working register. In Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode offices, English carries technical, medical and commercial vocabulary while Malayalam carries everything else, and educated speech switches so often that people rarely notice they are doing it. Kerala's high literacy and long tradition of English-medium professional education mean this is not a shortcut for people with limited Malayalam — it is simply how the language is used at work. A transcript that drops one side of the mixture is not a lighter version of the meeting; it is a different meeting. GetNotes transcribes both as spoken.
Kerala's professional life is also substantially offshore. Malayalam-speaking teams run construction, healthcare, hospitality and trading businesses across the Gulf, where meetings mix Malayalam, English and Arabic courtesy and contract terms, and happen in site offices and on the floor rather than on calls. Because GetNotes records the actual room from a phone and needs no calendar or meeting link, it covers the site meeting in Sharjah as easily as the office review in Kochi.
Where it earns its keep
A Gulf site meeting
A project engineer and a crew supervisor go through progress in Malayalam on a site in Dubai, with English for specifications and Arabic for a few contractual terms. No video call, plenty of ambient noise. Record it on the phone and get a written record of the actions.
A hospital departmental discussion
Clinicians in Kerala discuss cases in Malayalam with English medical vocabulary throughout. For teaching and departmental record-keeping, a transcript beats notes scribbled between rounds. Keep patient-identifying discussion out of anything you record.
A residents' association meeting
Kerala's residents' associations meet frequently, in Malayalam, and expect written minutes. Recording lets the secretary participate in the argument instead of transcribing it, and the AI draft becomes the starting point for the formal minute.
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
Can GetNotes keep up with fast conversational Malayalam?
Yes. Malayalam's speed and its habit of fusing words at boundaries through sandhi are the main challenges, and GetNotes uses ElevenLabs speech-to-text rather than a rules-based segmenter. Recording with the phone reasonably close to the speakers gives the model cleaner audio to work with and improves word-boundary decisions.
Does it handle Manglish — Malayalam with English mixed in?
It does. Educated Malayalam speech switches into English for technical, medical and commercial vocabulary constantly, often several times per sentence. GetNotes transcribes the Malayalam in Malayalam script and leaves the English in Roman script where it was spoken, so the transcript matches the meeting.
Will it work for a Malayalam meeting held in the Gulf?
Yes. GetNotes runs in the browser on any phone with no app install and no calendar integration, so a site office in Dubai or Doha works exactly like an office in Kochi. Meetings that also contain English and a few Arabic terms transcribe as spoken, and the minutes can be produced in English.
Can I upload a recording made on another device?
Yes. GetNotes accepts MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM and MP4 uploads, so a voice memo or a dictaphone file from a site visit can be processed later. You get the same speaker-labelled transcript and the same structured minutes as with an in-app recording.
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