Fleeting is a web service that provides computer‑generated meeting audio intended to help users signal they are occupied and avoid interruptions in shared workspaces. Visitors to the site can choose a meeting title, date, start time, and length (15, 30, 45 minutes, 1 hour or 1½ hours), decide whether it repeats, and add a calendar invitation that links back to the Fleeting page. The service emphasizes that the meeting simulation is meant as a form of “workplace self‑defence against people stealing your time.” (primary)
When a user presses play, Fleeting streams a fabricated meeting recording that is approximately twelve minutes long and begins at a random point in the conversation, so repeated use does not produce an identical opening line that might reveal the loop. To end the simulation convincingly, the user can click “Leave” or “I have to drop,” after which the synthetic participants say goodbye before the call ends. If the “Back‑to‑back meetings” option is enabled, the service automatically queues another context‑appropriate meeting after the current one finishes, while disabling it causes the same meeting to repeat instead. (primary)
The site acknowledges that all voices are synthetic and the accompanying faces are either AI‑generated or sourced from licensed stock footage, with every name invented except the creator John Carroll, who occasionally appears with his camera off. Because no actual meeting recordings are used, the audio may be detectable as artificial by listeners familiar with genuine workplace dynamics or sensitive to synthetic speech, and the calendar invitation link remains visible to anyone who can see the event details unless the user marks the event private. (primary)