The menu bar panel
Ozen lives in the menu bar as an ear icon.
- Click the icon for the panel.
- Right-click for a menu with the same controls (Start / Pause / Resume / Stop, Always / Meetings, Places…).
The icon
| Icon | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Red filled ear | Recording |
| Monochrome ear | Stopped |
| Pause symbol | Paused |
| Hourglass | Stopped, finishing transcription of audio already heard |
When not recording, the panel says Not recording and why (paused, finishing transcription, or a problem).
Controls
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Start | Start recording the call, the room microphone and other apps’ audio. |
| Pause / Resume | Stop and restart listening. The transcriber stays loaded, so resuming is instant. |
| Stop | Stop listening, finish transcribing queued audio (up to 2 minutes), then unload everything. |
| Always / Meetings | Record mode; see When ozen records. |
| Places… | Place-based rules; see Places. |
| Review N | Jump to the line ozen is least sure who said; see Review. |
| Ask AI | Open an AI agent on the meeting happening now; see Working with AI agents. |
Problems show as warnings at the top of the panel: recording blocked by a missing permission, a silent microphone, a screen that’s asleep, or a transcriber that’s behind. See Troubleshooting.
Views
Transcript
The live transcript, refreshed every 2 seconds. Each line shows its time, speaker and text.
- Click a speaker name to say who really said it, or to ignore that voice.
- Click the text to correct it.
- An orange ? marks a line ozen is unsure about.
- Grey lines are ignored voices.
Timeline
One lane per speaker, with their total talk time, and a bar for every line they spoke along a scrollable time axis. Overlapping speech overlaps here too.
- − / + zoom.
- Silences over 2 minutes shrink to a short break marker.
- Hover a bar to read the line; click it to jump to that line in the transcript.
Meetings
Every past meeting, newest first. A silence of 10 minutes or more starts a new meeting.
Select one or more (⌘-click or ⇧-click) and press Open to hand them to an AI agent; see Working with AI agents.
The footer shows speaker-recognition accuracy, now and when you started.