Quickstart
Status: Current Last modified: 2026-10-20 (commit f7e32e22)
Task-driven entry points. Pick the row that matches what you want to do today; each path starts at the narrowest useful documentation surface instead of dropping you into the whole book.
| Today’s goal | Best first page | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Practice creating, checking and exporting a transcript | chatter Quick Start | CLI tutorial |
| Understand a diagnostic and review a correction | Editor’s playbook | Editing workflow |
| Validate or export a directory of transcripts | Batch Workflows | CLI |
| Automate validation and retain diagnostics | CI Integration | Scripts / CI |
| Check a file in a window | Chatter Desktop | Desktop |
| Get diagnostics while editing | Editor Integration | LSP tutorial |
| Add CHAT parsing/validation to a Rust program | Library Usage | Rust crates |
To download and install chatter, see Install.
For audio + ML workflows (transcribe / align media → CHAT), see the
upstream batchalign3 project, outside the chatter repo.
This page last changed: 2026-10-20 (commit f7e32e22). The whole book last changed: 2026-10-27 (commit 5bfee2f9).