How to Transcribe a Slack Huddle on a Mac

Huddles are the calls nobody plans: a quick question that turns into twenty minutes of decisions. That is also why they are the calls nobody writes down. There are two ways to get a transcript of one on a Mac. Slack can take notes itself if your workspace pays for it, or your Mac can record the huddle as it plays.

Option 1: Slack's AI huddle notes

Slack can take notes in a huddle on its paid plans. Someone in the huddle turns AI notes on, and everyone in the huddle is told when notes start, stop or are cancelled. Afterwards the notes arrive as a canvas in the huddle's thread, with who was there, the topics and the action items, and anyone in that channel or direct message can read them. If your workspace's admins allow it, the transcript is included in the canvas.

Where it gives out, as of November 2026:

• It needs a paid Slack plan. A free workspace has no AI notes.
• Slack's help page says AI notes can't be used in huddles with external people or guests, which rules out many client and contractor calls.
• Whether you get the transcript, and not only the summary, is your admins' choice.
• The notes and transcript live in Slack, readable by everyone in that conversation.

If your huddles are inside one paid workspace and shared notes in the thread are what you want, use this. It costs nothing extra to set up.

Option 2: Record the huddle on your Mac

Your Mac is already playing the huddle's sound. An app that records from the Mac needs nothing from Slack: no paid plan, no admin setting, no integration. That makes it the route for free workspaces, for huddles with guests and people from other companies, and for a transcript that stays with you.

Enzo works this way. It records your microphone and the sound coming out of your Mac, transcribes on the Mac, and writes down who said what by name.

1. Install Enzo and allow System Audio when it asks. That one-time macOS permission lets it hear the other side of a call.
2. Start a huddle, then press your recording key. Or choose Meeting recording in Enzo's Recording settings, and Enzo starts when a call begins in Slack and stops when it ends.
3. Talk. Nothing joins the huddle and nobody sees a note-taker, so say that you're recording.
4. When the huddle ends, the transcript is in Speak with each voice separated and named. Click a speaker to say who it was, and Enzo knows that voice in later calls.

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The audio never leaves your Mac. Notes after the call are written by Enzo's cloud AI from the transcript, and you can turn them off. The same setup records Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and FaceTime. More on the meeting transcription page.

Tell people you're recording

Slack announces its own AI notes to the huddle. A recording made on your Mac announces nothing, so the telling is yours to do. Many places require everyone's consent, and it is the decent thing to do anywhere.

Which one should you use?

• Your team is on a paid Slack plan, the huddle is internal, and you want notes everyone in the channel can read: use Slack's AI notes.
• You're on free Slack, the huddle includes a guest or someone outside your company, or you want the transcript on your own Mac: record it locally. How recording without a bot works.