In person

No voice channel? No problem.

Open Daria in a browser, put the laptop where everyone can be heard, and hit record. The evening runs the same pipeline as one captured over Discord.

2:41:07
  • GM ×4
  • Yashid ×1
  • Fenwick ×2
  • Legoless ×2
  • Elandar ×1
  • Marxim ×1

1 track · 6 voices separated · 2h 41m session

One laptop, one table, every voice separated afterwards.

This is the harder case, and it is worth being straight about why. Over Discord every player arrives on their own track, already separated. In a room there is one microphone and six people, so the separation has to be worked out afterwards from the audio itself — who spoke, and where one person stopped and the next began.

Which is why the transcript is not final until a human says so. Daria groups the evening into voices, plays you a sample of each, and asks the GM to put a name to it. That takes about a minute and it is the difference between a transcript that names your characters and one that says “Speaker 3” four hundred times.

The room matters more than the hardware. A laptop in the middle of the table beats a good microphone at one end of it, because the far end is what gets lost. Hard surfaces echo; a tablecloth helps more than you would think. Nobody needs to lean in or pass anything around.

Everything downstream is identical. The recap, the scene index, the artwork and the answers all come from the same pipeline — an in-person evening is a session like any other once the voices have names.

How an evening at a real table gets kept

  1. Start a session in the browserNo install and no app. Open the campaign on the web, choose to record in person, and give the browser permission to use the microphone.
  2. Play, with the laptop on the tableDaria records the room continuously and uploads as she goes, so a flat battery or a closed lid does not cost you the evening.
  3. Name the voicesWhen you stop, Daria has grouped the audio into distinct speakers. The GM listens to a sample of each and picks the character. This is the one step that needs a person.
  4. Get the same things backRecap, scene index, transcript, podcast and artwork — the same as any other session.

Questions about recording in person

How good does the microphone need to be?

A laptop’s built-in microphone is usually enough for a table of six, provided it sits in the middle rather than at one end. Placement does more for the result than buying better hardware.

What if two people sound alike?

That is exactly what the review step is for. You hear a sample of each voice Daria separated and assign it yourself, so a close call is settled by someone who was there rather than guessed at.

Does the laptop need to stay awake the whole evening?

The browser tab does need to stay open, but audio is uploaded continuously as you play rather than held until the end, so an interruption costs you the part after it and never the part before.

Read the full FAQ →

Bring Daria to your kitchen table.

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