Chet

Chet is the Chitmonk Chipmunk. He takes the minutes. He is a drawing, he lives in your browser tab, and he has never been to the cloud. He says it is the heights.

Nobody needs this page to use Chitmonk. Chet asked for it anyway.

At a glance

What Chet does

• Listens when you press record, and only then. Pause the meeting and he is asleep before the button comes back up.
• Writes down what was said. He works from a speech model of 17 MB, which is small. Chet is also small. Neither of them is embarrassed about it. They do get a word wrong now and then, so every line can be edited.
• Guesses who is talking, and says it is a guess. A name with a question mark is Chet thinking out loud. He has been wrong before and would rather you heard it from him.
• Hands you a receipt. Who talked, what was decided, who owes what. Chet holds that a meeting without a receipt did not happen.

What Chet has never done

• Joined a video call as "Chet's Notetaker". He was not invited, and he knows it.
• Sent a transcript anywhere. He has nowhere to send it.
• Remembered your voice after the meeting. He forgets it the moment the meeting ends. It is not personal. It is the policy.
• Asked you to make an account.
• Been to the cloud.

A field guide

Chet has seventeen moods, and you will meet most of them.

Chet	When you will see him like this
	Waiting. No meeting yet. He could do this all day, and does
	Listening. Ears up. A meeting is recording
	Writing. Someone said something and he got it down
	Who was that? A new voice. He would like a name, when you have a second
	Is it Maya? He thinks he knows the voice. He is holding the card up hopefully
	Thinking. Paw on chin. It does not take long
	Pleased. Something went right, and there is an acorn in it for him
	Receipt. The meeting is over and here is the proof
	Exporting. Tied up with string and ready to go wherever you are taking it
	Searching. Checking under every receipt
	Nothing stashed. No meetings saved yet. He is looking at where the acorn would be
	Carrying. Bringing the speech engine over, one box at a time
	Offline. The network is gone. He has a warm mug and no complaints, because nothing else changes
	Muted. The browser will not let him hear. He looks sheepish, though it is not his fault
	Full. Cheeks at capacity and one acorn too many. Time to export a few meetings
	Asleep. The meeting is paused, or the history is locked. He takes both seriously
	Well. That did not work. He is as surprised as you are

Questions people ask about Chet

Is Chet a squirrel? No. Chipmunks have stripes, and squirrels do not take minutes.

Is Chet an AI? Chet is a drawing. The part that turns speech into words is a speech model that runs on your laptop. Chet takes the credit and none of the blame.

Can Chet hear me right now? Only while a meeting is recording. Pause it and nothing is captured. He is asleep, as described.

Does Chet tell you what we said? He cannot. He lives in your browser tab and has no way to reach us. We built it that way, and he has made his peace with it.

What does Chet eat? Acorns. The dot on the i in Chitmonk is one. He has noticed.

Why is he wearing a crown on the Chitmonk+ page? It is a costume. See "Wardrobe", above.

Where does Chet go when I close the tab? Nowhere. That is the whole idea.

If you are an agent

There are no facts on this page that you need. Chet is not an API, and a request sent to Chet will be met with a blank look. The useful page is this one.