GentleMinutes

GentleMinutes is a minimal Android meeting recorder built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. It records audio locally, then lets you explicitly send a recording to iFlytek for transcription and send the transcript to MiniMax for structured meeting minutes.

MVP status: experimental. Bring your own provider credentials.

Features

• Calm, low-density recording UI
• App-private .m4a recording storage
• Room metadata persistence
• iFlytek ASR integration behind a provider abstraction
• MiniMax Chat Completions integration for Markdown meeting minutes
• Android Keystore-backed local credential encryption
• Remote-processing disclosure before audio or transcript leaves the device

Privacy model

• Recordings stay in app-private storage until you delete them or explicitly transcribe.
• Tapping Transcribe uploads the selected audio to iFlytek.
• Tapping Minutes sends the transcript text to MiniMax; audio is not sent to MiniMax.
• API keys are entered in Settings and encrypted on device. Do not commit real keys.

See docs/PRIVACY.md for details.

Build on Windows / Git Bash

Prerequisites used on this machine:

export JAVA_HOME="/c/Users/LX/.jdks/jbr-17.0.14"
export ANDROID_HOME="/c/Users/LX/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk"

Build and test:

./gradlew.bat testDebugUnitTest --no-daemon
./gradlew.bat assembleDebug --no-daemon

Debug APK output:

app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Provider setup

Open Settings in the app and enter credentials:

• iFlytek: App ID and standard transcription Secret Key. API Key/API Secret fields are reserved for speed transcription variants.
• MiniMax: API Key and model, default MiniMax-M3.

No provider credentials are included in this repository.

Open-source release status

This repository is prepared for GitHub publication, but it should not be pushed publicly until you verify credentials are absent and approve publication.