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title: "Save Windows Live Captions, With Speakers | Memory Notch"
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LIVE CAPTIONS AND SOUND RECORDER

# How to save Windows Live Captions, with speakers

Live Captions can’t save a transcript. Memory Notch for Windows keeps it, offline, with speakers.

ON THIS PAGE

01Three steps to get it working02Live Captions and Sound Recorder, side by side03Questions people ask04Get Memory Notch for Windows

[Open the live demo ↗](https://memorynotch.app/#live-demo)

## Three steps to get it working

1. **Download Memory Notch for Windows.** It’s a free download, in alpha, for Windows 11. The speech models come inside the installer.
2. **Start a recording.** It records your microphone and your PC’s own sound together, and writes a live transcript as people talk.
3. **Keep the notes.** Stop when you’re done. The transcript is saved as notes on your PC, with each speaker numbered: Speaker 1, Speaker 2.

## Live Captions and Sound Recorder, side by side

| | Memory Notch | Sound Recorder and Live Captions |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A transcript | Writes down what was said. | Sound Recorder doesn’t transcribe. |
| Keeping it | Keeps the words as notes on your PC. | Live Captions aren’t kept: Microsoft says captions “are not stored anywhere on the device or the cloud”. |
| Speakers and languages | Labels each speaker, in 15 languages it detects by itself. | Sound Recorder doesn’t transcribe, so there are no words to label. |

Frontier speech models, running offline on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

## Questions people ask

### Can you save Windows Live Captions?

No. Microsoft says captions “are not stored anywhere on the device or the cloud”, and Windows has no button to save them. Memory Notch writes its own transcript and keeps it as notes on your PC.

### Does Sound Recorder transcribe?

No. Sound Recorder records audio but doesn’t transcribe it. Memory Notch records your microphone and your PC’s sound and writes down what was said as it happens.

### Does Memory Notch say who said what?

Yes. It labels each speaker with a number, Speaker 1, Speaker 2, never a name. It detects the language by itself, across 15 languages.

### What does it cost?

The Windows alpha is a free download. Free recordings run up to five minutes; a Memory Notch licence (US$79 once, or US$7.99 a month) removes the limit on up to five of your own PCs or Macs.

### Does it do dictation too?

Yes. Double-tap Ctrl, say a sentence, and it’s typed into the app you’re in.

## Get Memory Notch for Windows

[Free download for Windows ↓](https://memorynotch.app/download/windows)

Alpha 0.5.0 · Windows 11, 64-bit · about 930 MB.

Last checked 8 November 2026. Sources: [Microsoft: Use live captions](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows/use-live-captions-to-better-understand-audio) · [Sound Recorder (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Recorder_(software)).

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