Four packages, each with its install steps. The web app needs none of them. Checksums are SHA-256.
Transcription and the assistant run locally. Audio never leaves the PC; only the text of each turn goes to Anthropic.
Installer. Runs the local server and the live screen in a native window, with Whisper on your PC and the bundled Claude engine.
MeetingEar-Setup-0.1.0.exe from Downloads. For now the link opens a Google Drive share for the firm, so sign in with the Google account it was shared with.The Python core, the local web page and the desktop shell. For a PC with a GPU or a home server on a private network.
unzip meeting-ear-local-app.zip
cd meeting-ear
pip install -e core
meetingear devices
meetingear config mic="<your mic name>" engine=claude-code
meetingear serve --open
Python 3.11 or newer. On a GPU machine also pip install nvidia-cublas-cu12 nvidia-cudnn-cu12. Claude Code installed and logged in for the claude-code engine, or meetingear config engine=api --api-key sk-ant-....
The page is at http://127.0.0.1:8771/. The compact strip is at /compact.
Bring the same brief, sources and actions into the Claude you already use.
Unzip, load with claude --plugin-dir, then /meeting-ear:meeting <client>.
meeting-ear-claude-code-plugin.zip and unzip it somewhere permanent, for example C:\tools\meeting-ear.pip install faster-whisper pyaudiowpatch numpy mcp. For the connector sync tool also unzip the local app package and pip install -e core.claude --plugin-dir C:\tools\meeting-ear\meeting-ear
Or add it permanently: claude plugin marketplace add C:\tools\meeting-ear then claude plugin install meeting-ear.
/config, set the plugin options: the briefs folder and your microphone name.Double-click to install in Claude Desktop, then paste the project instructions.
pip install mcp faster-whisper pyaudiowpatch numpy.meeting-ear-claude-desktop.mcpb and double-click it, or drag it into Claude Desktop, Settings, Extensions.The desktop installer is not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen shows an unknown publisher warning once. Choose More info, then Run anyway.