Recordings¶

Import¶

ailoud audio import ~/Recordings/standup.m4a --tag standup
ailoud audio import ~/Recordings --tag offsite --tag 2026

A directory imports the media files directly inside it. It does not walk subdirectories.

The file you point at is never moved or changed. AILoud keeps its own copy.

Always pass --tag

Tags are how you find a recording later by context. The easiest moment to add one is now, while you know what the file is. See Tags.

Transcribe¶

ailoud audio transcribe                 # everything with no transcript yet
ailoud audio transcribe ID001 ID002
ailoud audio transcribe ID001 --force   # redo one

Takes minutes per recording, roughly a tenth of the audio length.

Two languages in one recording¶

ailoud audio transcribe ID001 --lang ru,en

Two or more languages turn on per-segment detection and confine it to that set. One language forces it for the whole file:

ailoud audio transcribe ID001 --lang ru

Check what it found:

ailoud audio ls

01M1B2W5EG  00:36  ru+en  "Так, deploy pipeline зелёный..."

Speakers¶

ailoud audio transcribe ID001 --diarize
ailoud audio transcribe ID001 --diarize --speakers 2

Speakers come out as speaker_00, speaker_01. Give them names:

ailoud audio show ID001 --speakers
ailoud audio annotate ID001 --speaker speaker_00=Ann --speaker speaker_01=Ben

Names survive --force, so re-transcribing does not lose them.

Read¶

ailoud audio show ID001
ailoud audio show ID001 --speaker Ann
ailoud audio show ID001 --format srt > standup.srt
ailoud audio show ID001 --format json | jq '.segments[0]'

Formats: text, json, srt, vtt.

Output longer than 30 lines opens in your pager. q quits.

Tags¶

ailoud audio annotate ID001 --tag release --tag backend
ailoud audio ls --tag release
ailoud audio ls --tag release --tag backend   # both, not either

Several tags narrow. A recording must carry all of them.

Titles and notes¶

ailoud audio annotate ID001 --title "Backend standup" --notes "Ann was late"

Delete¶

ailoud audio rm ID001
ailoud audio rm ID001 --force   # no question

Deletes the recording, its transcripts, its reports and AILoud's copy of the audio. The file you imported from is not touched.

Short forms¶

Every verb has a one-letter alias, and the letter means the same thing in every group:

ailoud audio i ~/Recordings   # import
ailoud audio t                # transcribe
ailoud audio f "rollback"     # search (find)
ailoud audio s ID001          # summarize
ailoud audio l                # ls
ailoud audio v ID001          # show (view)
ailoud audio a ID001 --tag x  # annotate
ailoud audio r ID001          # rm

The old top-level spellings still work: ailoud ls, ailoud show, ailoud import, and so on.

See the full list in the CLI Reference.