Desktop app settings

Open your profile menu in the desktop app, then choose Settings. The Settings window has General, Live translation, Account, Setup, and Custom vocabulary. The installed version and update status appear at the bottom of its sidebar.

Setup#

Use Settings → Setup to review the access JotMe needs. Microphone and Computer audio enable live translation and live transcription; Microphone and Voice Keyboard enable dictation into other applications.

General#

Appearance#

• App zoom resizes the entire desktop app, including chat, translation, notes, settings, and live-session controls.

AI meeting notes#

Choose whether a completed meeting or event keeps its transcript and generates AI meeting notes, keeps the transcript only, or stores neither. When AI meeting notes are enabled, you can also choose their output language.

See how your notes, AI meeting notes, and transcripts are kept

Notifications and chat#

• Turn desktop notifications for meetings and chats on or off.
• Show or hide typing indicators.
• Set your chat presence to Active or Away.

See Calendar for meeting and event reminders, and Multilingual chat for conversations and chat behavior.

Startup#

Open JotMe automatically launches the desktop app when you sign in to your computer.

Shortcuts#

Enable or disable the shortcuts for:

• Open live session — opens the live-session workspace; it does not start recording.
• Voice typing — hold the shortcut and speak to type in another app. See Voice typing.
• Translate selected text — translate text selected in another app. See Text translation.

The Settings window shows the keys for your operating system. Turn a shortcut off if another app uses the same keys.

Live translation#

These settings control meetings and events while they are live:

• Open live session opens the workspace without starting a recording.
• Pin live window, Text size, and Background opacity control how the live window appears over other applications.
• Your environment chooses how JotMe treats the audio and transcript: Online separates your microphone from meeting audio, In-person labels each person heard through the room microphone, and Events hides speaker names and same-language output for an audience-facing translation display.
• Microphone chooses which input identifies and transcribes your voice.
• Translation quality, Automatic adjustment, and Show real-time memory control the speed, context, and accuracy of live translation.
• Transcription quality controls how long JotMe waits for finalized speech before displaying transcript text.

Only available here

These two preferences are available only in Settings → Live translation:

• Same-language output shows translated output even when JotMe detects that the spoken language already matches the output language. Leave it off to suppress that duplicate output.
• Complete translations waits for enough words before splitting the transcript, which produces more complete translations but can add delay. Turn it off when translation feels delayed. Fast (Audio) uses its own speech splitting, so this preference is unavailable in that mode.

Sharing after the session

Share meeting notes, summary, and transcript with participants after the session is on by default. Turn it off before the session ends when people who joined the live translation should not automatically receive that content. This preference does not stop the live captions or translated voice they are already receiving.

For the behavior behind these controls, open:

Live translation

Environment, microphone, translation quality, automatic adjustment, and real-time memory.

Live transcription

Spoken-language models, speaker labels, and the live transcript.

Limit shared translation languages#

Choose the model you plan to share, then limit the spoken and target languages that participants can select. The limits are stored separately for Basic, Premium, and Fast (Audio).

See how language limits affect shared live translation

Account#

The desktop Account section includes profile and work-language information, subscription status, billing details, invoices, and account deletion. These are account-wide rather than desktop-only.

Account settings

Plans, usage, account preferences, sign-in, and deletion.

Billing and payments

Renewals, plan changes, invoices, cancellations, and refunds.

Custom vocabulary#

Add names, product terms, acronyms, and industry vocabulary by language; organize them by category and importance, and turn individual terms on or off. The same vocabulary is available in the web app.

See the account-wide custom vocabulary guide

Version and updates#

Latest beside the installed version means the desktop app is current. When an update is available, Settings shows the download or restart action.

See updating and uninstalling