# Send audio from your phone with Telegram. Dimmy Help. > Send audio from your phone with Telegram. Step-by-step help for Dimmy, the native voice dictation app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Source: https://dimmy.app/help/integrations-telegram/ [← Back to Help center](https://dimmy.app/help/) Integrations # Send audio from your phone with Telegram Connect Dimmy to your own Telegram account. Record audio on your phone with any app, share it to your Telegram Saved Messages, and Dimmy transcribes it and writes a recap on your computer. Windows and macOS. Dimmy can watch your own Telegram account for audio. Record a voice note on your phone with any app, share it to your Telegram Saved Messages, and Dimmy on the PC picks it up, transcribes it, and writes a recap. It uses your own account, no bot and no cloud drive in between. image · placeholder A voice note shared to Telegram Saved Messages appearing as a transcript in Dimmy on the PC info This integration runs on Windows and macOS (Settings → Integrations). The phone side works from any phone, Android or iOS, because it is just Telegram's own share. ## How it works 1. On your phone, record audio with any recorder or voice-note app. 2. Share or forward that audio into your Telegram Saved Messages (your own self-chat). 3. With Dimmy running on your PC, it notices the new audio, transcribes it, and generates a recap. warning Your PC has to be on with Dimmy running for it to catch audio. If it is off, the audio waits in Saved Messages and Dimmy catches up the next time it launches. ## Connect Telegram (one-time setup) Open Dimmy → Settings → Integrations → the Telegram card, and turn on the Telegram toggle. You log in with your own Telegram account, the same one you use on your phone. There is no bot to create and no visit to my.telegram.org. 1. Enter your Telegram phone number, with country code (for example +39 333 1234567). Click Send code. 2. Telegram sends a login code to your other logged-in devices (your phone, Telegram Desktop). Type it into the code field. Click Confirm. 3. If you have two-step verification on, Dimmy asks for your Telegram password. Enter it and click Confirm. 4. On success the card shows a green check and "Connected", or "Connected as " once it reads your account. info It is a read-only login to your own account, stored locally on this PC. The connection key is compiled into Dimmy, so you never touch my.telegram.org and never create a bot. Log out any time with the Log out button. ## What Dimmy picks up Dimmy watches one place only: your Telegram Saved Messages. Anything you send or forward to any other chat is ignored. In Saved Messages it acts on audio, and only audio. * Voice notes recorded in Telegram itself. * Audio files shared or forwarded to Saved Messages: .ogg, .oga, .opus, .m4a, .mp3, .wav, .aac, .flac, .webm, and similar audio formats. * Up to Telegram's own ceiling of 2 GB per file. warning Video is not supported, and non-audio messages (text, photos, documents) are ignored. Only audio in Saved Messages is processed. ## When new audio arrives By default a small window slides in at the bottom-right, titled "New audio from Telegram". It shows the file name and size and asks whether to transcribe and recap it, with two buttons: Dismiss, and Transcribe + recap. It does not steal focus and does not disappear on its own, so you can act on it whenever you get back to the PC. ## Process every audio automatically If you would rather skip the prompt, turn on "Transcribe and recap automatically" on the Telegram card (it appears once you are connected, and is off by default). With it on, every audio shared to Saved Messages is transcribed and recapped on its own, no click needed. ## Where your transcript and recap land The transcript is transcribed with the same engine as the "Transcribe a file" card and is always saved to your [History](https://dimmy.app/help/history-search/). Then Dimmy generates a recap the same way it does for meetings, with a recap and action items, and the entry shows up alongside your [meeting recaps](https://dimmy.app/help/use-meeting-recaps/). * Success shows a "Telegram audio ready" toast once the file is transcribed and recapped. * If the recap cannot be generated (for example your LLM is not set up), the transcript is still saved to History and you get a "Telegram audio transcribed" toast instead. * If transcription itself fails, the item stays in your inbox to retry, so nothing is lost. ## If your PC is off Saved Messages live in Telegram's cloud, so audio you share while the PC is off simply waits. The next time you launch Dimmy it catches up and processes whatever arrived in the meantime. One honest limit: audio you shared before you first connected the account is not fetched retroactively. Only what arrives after you connect is picked up. ## Privacy * Read-only. Dimmy never sends messages, never replies into Telegram, never joins groups or adds contacts. It only reads audio from your Saved Messages. * The audio is downloaded locally into Dimmy's data folder on this PC. * Transcription and recap follow your normal [STT and LLM settings](https://dimmy.app/help/cloud-providers/), exactly like a regular dictation or meeting. * Your Telegram session is stored locally on this device. Log out any time with Log out, and Dimmy forgets it. tip This is the easiest way to capture a thought while you are away from the keyboard. Record it on your phone, drop it in Saved Messages, and it is transcribed and recapped by the time you sit back down. It reuses the same recap engine as [meeting recaps](https://dimmy.app/help/use-meeting-recaps/). Was this helpful? ## In this category [ IntegrationsConnect Claude Desktop to Dimmy (MCP bridge)One-click wizard installs a small MCP server. Ask Claude Desktop about your meetings, dictations, and let it write recaps back into Dimmy.](https://dimmy.app/help/integrations-claude-desktop/) [ IntegrationsUse your Claude subscription via Claude CLI (no API key)If you already pay for Claude Pro, Team, or Max, route Dimmy's LLM rewrites and recaps through the local claude CLI. No API key, no per-token cost.](https://dimmy.app/help/integrations-claude-cli/) [ IntegrationsUse Dimmy's MCP server from Claude CLI (advanced)Dimmy's MCP bridge has a one-click setup for Claude Desktop. There's no built-in button for the terminal, but you can point the Claude CLI at the same binary by hand. 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[06 Where your transcript and recap land](#where-your-transcript-and-recap-land) 7. [07 If your PC is off](#if-your-pc-is-off) 8. [08 Privacy](#privacy)