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What Chief transcribes

During a Live Session, Chief transcribes two audio sources from your Mac: your microphone (you) and your computer’s system audio (everyone else on the call). Each spoken turn lands in the Transcript with a speaker label and a timecode range.

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How speakers are labeled

Chief groups the two audio sides automatically:
  • Your own microphone is always shown as You.
  • Everyone captured through your computer’s system audio is shown as Them.
Consecutive turns from the same side are combined into a readable block. Them can represent more than one person when several people speak through the same meeting audio.
Good to know: You and Them describe the audio source, not a person’s identity. When Chief hears an actual name in the conversation, it can use that name on an action item’s owner.

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Reading the transcript

Each block shows a colored You or Them label, its starting time, and the spoken text. Open a Live Session and scroll the Transcript panel to read it in order.

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FAQ

Them represents everyone captured through the computer’s system audio. It identifies the remote side of the conversation, not each individual attendee.
The transcript uses the automatic You and Them labels. Where Chief picks up a real name in conversation, it can attach that name to an action item’s owner.
That means no audio has been transcribed. Confirm the Mac app has microphone and system-audio access and that the meeting audio is reaching your computer.