Meets hears your Zoom and Teams calls, no bot required
Portail Meets could already listen in the room and pick up a call running in another browser tab. Now it can hear a call in any app on your computer. Turn on "Also hear the call", share your entire screen with "Share system audio" on, and Portail hears the Zoom or Teams app the same way you do, without joining the call as a participant. It works in Chrome and Edge on Windows, and on macOS 14.2 or later. Sharing just the call's tab still works for calls in the browser. The transcript now tells the two sides apart: what your microphone hears is labelled with your name, and what comes from the call is labelled Others, so the notes and action items know who said what. If you're not wearing headphones, your microphone hears the call through your speakers too. Portail now spots that and drops the repeated line, first in the browser and again on the server, so the transcript doesn't show every sentence twice. Headphones still give the cleanest transcript. With no bot in the call, nothing posts a recording notice there for you, so the meeting page has a new Copy notice for the call button: one short message you paste into the call's chat so everyone knows Portail is taking notes and that it keeps the transcript, never the audio. In-person meetings with just the microphone work exactly as before, and nothing changes in price: transcription is billed the same way it always was, on every plan.
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"Also hear the call" now covers the Zoom and Teams apps through your screen's system audio, not only a browser tab.
Transcript lines say who spoke: you, or the people on the call.
The call echoing through your speakers no longer shows up twice in the transcript.
A Copy notice for the call button gives you a ready message to tell everyone Portail is taking notes.
You can turn call audio on from the meeting page too, not only when starting a meeting.
Portail v2.12.1 shipped on 2026-11-14 as a patch release focused on meets hears your zoom and teams calls, no bot required. Portail Meets could already listen in the room and pick up a call running in another browser tab. Now it can hear a call in any app on your computer. Turn on "Also hear the call", share your entire screen with "Share system audio" on, and Portail hears the Zoom or Teams app the same way you do, without joining the call as a participant. It works in Chrome and Edge on Windows, and on macOS 14.2 or later. Sharing just the call's tab still works for calls in the browser. The transcript now tells the two sides apart: what your microphone hears is labelled with your name, and what comes from the call is labelled Others, so the notes and action items know who said what. If you're not wearing headphones, your microphone hears the call through your speakers too. Portail now spots that and drops the repeated line, first in the browser and again on the server, so the transcript doesn't show every sentence twice. Headphones still give the cleanest transcript. With no bot in the call, nothing posts a recording notice there for you, so the meeting page has a new Copy notice for the call button: one short message you paste into the call's chat so everyone knows Portail is taking notes and that it keeps the transcript, never the audio. In-person meetings with just the microphone work exactly as before, and nothing changes in price: transcription is billed the same way it always was, on every plan. The work is recorded here because small releases are still product history. They change how people sign in, read responses, pay for access, share conversations, open files, or trust the system when something goes wrong.
The main changes were direct: "also hear the call" now covers the zoom and teams apps through your screen's system audio, not only a browser tab, transcript lines say who spoke: you, or the people on the call, the call echoing through your speakers no longer shows up twice in the transcript, a copy notice for the call button gives you a ready message to tell everyone portail is taking notes, and you can turn call audio on from the meeting page too, not only when starting a meeting. That list is intentionally plain. It names what changed without turning the release into theatre. When a release fixes a build, a redirect, a storage path, or a UI edge case, the value is often that users stop noticing the problem. The archive keeps that invisible work visible enough for future debugging and for anyone checking whether Portail has cared about the details over time.
This version also fits into the wider Portail contract. One account, one chat history, and one model picker only work if the smaller pieces keep their promises. Authentication has to fail clearly. Billing has to count honestly. Uploads have to arrive in a form models can read. Admin tools have to show the operator what happened instead of hiding it behind a blank screen. v2.12.1 moved that contract forward in its own narrow lane.
The screenshots attached to this entry show the public release record as it now appears on portail.cc. For older releases, this archive was rebuilt from the git history, package version changes, release modal text, and commit subjects. That means the page is honest about its source: it documents the shipped change and preserves the record going forward, even when the exact old production screen cannot be recreated from a single saved image.
The practical result is simple. Someone landing on this page can see the version number, date, release tier, headline, highlights, and a real rendered screenshot of the archive page. Search engines can index the post through the canonical URL, sitemap entry, and structured data. Future releases now have a standard to meet before deploy, so the history should get cleaner from here instead of fuzzier.