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French meetings

Record a French meeting and follow it in English

When part of a team works in French and the reporting line does not, somebody usually ends up translating from memory into the meeting notes. That is the least reliable point in the whole chain, and it is invisible — nobody can audit a translation that was never written down. DayMarshal transcribes the meeting in French and shows the English beneath it, which puts the translation on the record where it can be checked.

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The original is the record

The French transcript is what is retained; the English translation accompanies it line by line. A summary that only exists in English is a claim about a conversation nobody can go back and verify.

Francophone teams are rarely in one country

A team spread across France, Belgium, Quebec, Morocco and Senegal is a normal shape, and the vocabulary is not uniform across it. Keeping the source means a regional term is still there when the translation reaches for a common equivalent.

What happens after the meeting

Summary, action items, and the decisions, commitments, and risks the conversation produced, each linked back to the passage of French transcript it was drawn from.

Common questions

Can a meeting mix French and English?

Yes. Rooms that switch between the two are the case this is built for.

Is the French transcript retained or only the translation?

The French is retained. The translation sits beneath it and never replaces it.

Can I share the result with a colleague who reads only English?

Yes. The summary and the extracted follow-up are in English, and the French transcript stays available behind them as the source.

Other languages

Hold the meeting in French.

Read it in English afterwards, with the original still there to check against.

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