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Your campaign, spelled the way you spell it.
Transcribing a game night is not transcribing a meeting. Half the proper nouns were invented at this table and exist nowhere else, six people talk at once at the exact moment something matters, and the interesting sentence is usually the one somebody said quietly while laughing. Daria is built around those three problems.
The hard part is vocabulary, and it is hard for a reason no amount of general accuracy fixes: a transcriber has never seen your world. It will render an invented god as the nearest common word every single time, and it will do so confidently. So Daria is told in advance. Register your party with /character, and add the places, gods, factions and homebrew items your table keeps saying to the campaign glossary — every one of those goes to the transcriber before it hears a single word, so your world comes back spelled the way you spell it rather than the way it sounds. The whole party can add terms, not just the GM: the people who invented a name are the ones who know how it goes.
The second problem is who said what, and on Discord it is not solved by cleverness but by wiring. Each player is recorded on their own track, so attribution is a fact about which file the audio was in rather than a model’s opinion about whose voice that was. For a room captured through one microphone — a table playing in person, or a file you imported — the voices are separated afterwards and you name each one once, and from then on they carry your characters’ names through everything.
What gets stored is two things, and the distinction matters more than it sounds. There is a record of what was said, and there is the transcript built from it — the merged, readable version with speakers resolved and events in order. Keeping both is what makes a correction possible later: when the transcript has somebody wrong, the fix is rebuilt from the original rather than patched over the top, so the campaign does not slowly accumulate edits nobody can trace.
If your table plays on Foundry VTT, the dice go into the transcript too. The module writes rolls, spell casts, item uses and conditions in at the timestamp they happened, so the natural-20 in the middle of a tense negotiation is in the record as an event next to the sentence somebody said about it — rather than as a line of chat in a different window that nobody will ever line up again.
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