---
title: "Recognize people in later meetings"
description: "Turn on saved-voice recognition and choose whose voice Recordstead may keep."
updated: "2026-09-21"
canonical: https://docs.recordstead.app/people/recognize-people
---

# Recognize people in later meetings

Saved-voice recognition can put a known person's name into later meetings.
It is off by default. Ordinary speaker separation and naming still work
without it; recognition adds a voice-derived record kept for future matching.

:::caution[Ask each person first]
A saved voice is biometric data. The app cannot ask a participant for you.
Before saving someone's voice, tell them what will be kept and make sure you
have the authority to do so. Turning on the setting is not permission from
that person.
:::

## Turn on recognition

1. Open **Settings…** (⌘,) › **Speakers** › **Saved voices**.
2. Turn on **Recognize people across meetings**.
3. Read the explanation, check **I will ask the people whose voices this
   saves.**, then click **Turn On**.

This enables the feature but saves no new voice by itself. The first time you
name a new person in a speaker review, **Save these voices?** asks which of
those people may be kept. Check only those you can attest for, then click
**Save**. An unchecked person is still named in that meeting, but no voice
record is saved for later recognition.

**Your result:** eligible saved voices can be matched in later meetings in
the same workspace. A meeting where every voice is confidently recognized
can finish without asking you to name speakers; you can [edit the names](https://docs.recordstead.app/people/name-speakers#change-the-names-on-a-finished-meeting)
afterwards.

Turn the setting off to stop using saved voices for matching. Existing records
remain until you delete them in **People** or they expire after 90 days of
inactivity. [What leaves your Mac](https://docs.recordstead.app/your-data/what-leaves-your-mac) explains
where this data is kept.