Meeting Sidekick is a powerful AI-powered virtual assistant designed to enhance your meeting experiences by automating note-taking, summarizing discussions, tracking action items, and providing contextual insights in real-time.

• Real-time Speech Recognition: Automatically captures and transcribes spoken conversations during meetings using OpenAI Whisper
• Smart Note Taking: Organizes content into structured notes via OpenAI GPT models
• Action Item Detection: Identifies tasks, assignments, deadlines, and responsible parties
• Meeting Summarization: Generates concise summaries highlighting main topics and decisions
• Real-time Insights Engine: Analyzes conversations to provide relevant information and talking points
• Beautiful CLI Interface: Rich, interactive terminal interface with color-coded sections and real-time updates

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/meeting-sidekick.git
   cd meeting-sidekick

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up your OpenAI API key:

   # Option 1: Use the setup command
   python -m meeting_sidekick setup
   
   # Option 2: Set as environment variable
   export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
   
   # Option 3: Pass directly when running
   python -m meeting_sidekick run --api-key your_api_key_here

Start the Meeting Sidekick:

python -m meeting_sidekick run

Once the Meeting Sidekick is running, you can use the following keyboard commands:

• r: Start/stop recording
• s: Force update summary
• a: Force update action items
• e: Export meeting data (markdown or JSON)
• t: Set meeting title
• h: Show help
• q: Quit

The Meeting Sidekick interface is divided into four main sections:

1. Live Transcript: Shows the real-time transcription of the meeting
2. Meeting Summary: Displays an automatically generated and continuously updated summary
3. Insights: Shows contextual insights that you can use during the conversation
4. Action Items: Lists detected action items with assignments and deadlines

You can configure Meeting Sidekick using environment variables or the built-in setup command:

python -m meeting_sidekick setup

Configuration options include:

• OpenAI API key
• Whisper model selection (tiny, base, small, medium, large)
• Desktop notifications toggle
• Update intervals for summary and action items

Meeting Sidekick supports exporting meeting data in the following formats:

• Markdown: Structured document with summary, action items, and full transcript
• JSON: Machine-readable format for integration with other tools

• Python 3.9+
• OpenAI API key
• Audio input device (microphone)

• All processing happens via OpenAI's API
• Transcripts and meeting data are saved locally only when explicitly exported
• No data is stored or retained by default

• ARCHITECTURE.md: Detailed explanation of the application architecture, components, and design decisions
• CONTRIBUTING.md: Guidelines for contributing to the project

Meeting Sidekick is released under the MIT License.

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on how to contribute to this project.