AgentEyes: a screen and audio recorder for Windows

AgentEyes is a screen and audio recorder for Windows that lives in your tray. It records your screen and microphone, turns a recording into a searchable transcript and a shareable write-up, and types what you say into any app when you double-tap Ctrl. It is a free download, and it also ships inside DevThrottle - the same recorder either way.

How recording and transcription work

It is worth being precise about where your recordings go, because AgentEyes uses both your machine and DevThrottle's hosted AI:

• On your machine. Recording and the recording library run on your own PC, and you do not need a DevThrottle account to record. Voice typing (dictation) runs on a local model, and burning subtitles into a video runs on your machine too.
• Sent to DevThrottle's hosted AI. Turning a recording into a transcript, translating a transcript, and generating a recording's title and description use DevThrottle's hosted AI through your signed-in account. For those steps, the recording's audio (to transcribe) or text (to translate) is sent to DevThrottle. See Import a video and Multilingual subtitles for exactly what is sent and when.

Visible and controllable

An always-on recorder only works if you stay in control of it, so two things are built in rather than buried in a settings page:

• Visible. A recording indicator is on whenever it is capturing. There is no stealth mode, ever - you always know when it is running.
• Controllable. One action stops everything, per-app exclusions keep windows out of frame, and disk use stays bounded.

What it does today

• Records with a click. OBS-style named presets pick a monitor or a region, mix your mic with system audio through a noise gate, and capture screen, audio, or a single screenshot. See Recording.
• Turns a recording into an artifact. The walkthrough builder takes a recording and produces a transcript plus a shareable HTML write-up you can drop into a ticket, a doc, or a message.
• Types with your voice, anywhere. Double-tap Ctrl in any app, speak, and the text lands in whatever has focus. Dictation runs on a local model.
• Imports an outside video. Bring a Teams meeting recording or any common video file into the library and get a transcript back. See Import a video.
• Adds subtitles in another language. Translate a transcript with the timing preserved and burn the captions into a new video. See Multilingual subtitles.

Two ways to run it

AgentEyes is a tray app (AgentEyesApp.exe) and a command-line tool (agenteyes.exe) that share one engine. Beyond the tray window, a local REST Control API lets a script or an agent drive the recorder headlessly.

• Inside DevThrottle. Installed alongside the app, AgentEyes gives your coding agents eyes on the desktop and a voice channel back to you.
• On its own. Want just the recorder and voice typing? Download AgentEyes by itself - the same engine, and no DevThrottle account is needed to record. (Transcription, translation, and AI titles do use your DevThrottle account, since they run on the hosted AI.)
• From a script. The CLI and the Control API automate every part of it.

Where recordings live

Recordings land in %USERPROFILE%\Videos\AgentEyes\. Configuration, presets, logs, and the local dictation model live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\AgentEyes\. Each recording is its own folder holding the video or audio, any screenshots, and the transcript.

Where to go next

Start with Recording to make your first capture, or jump straight to the two newest features: Import a video and Multilingual subtitles.