Building AI transcription tools in Ruby with Valentino Stoll

In this session, Valentino Stoll, Senior Staff AI Software Engineer at Gusto, joins Chad to demo and break down podcast-buddy, a command-line AI tool built for real-time audio transcription and note-taking during conversations. Chad and Valentino will use the tool live during the session to show how it tracks topics, suggests follow-up questions, and summarizes key points on the fly. Then they’ll go behind the scenes to explore how it works, including handling audio input in Ruby via whisper.cpp, asynchronous transcription using meeting-buddy, and how to hook into emitted events to build your own conversational tools.