Google Meet’s latest AI-powered function, “take notes for me,” has began rolling out as we speak to Google Workspace prospects with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons. It’s just like Meet’s transcription device, solely as an alternative of routinely transcribing what everybody says, it summarizes what everybody talked about. Google first introduced this function at its 2023 Cloud Next convention.
Unfortunately, it solely helps spoken English proper now, nevertheless it looks like it may make lacking an necessary assembly much less worrying; it routinely takes notes in a Google Doc and can connect that file to the calendar occasion after the assembly is over, so you possibly can reference them in a while. It may also ship that Google Doc to the assembly organizer and anybody else who turned the function on.
Running late to a gathering? Google says its new function may also offer you a abstract of what you missed, so when you’ll be able to be part of, you possibly can shortly catch up — and nobody ought to have to fret about repeating themselves. If you employ Google Meet’s recordings and transcripts device on the identical time, hyperlinks to these information may also be supplied in the identical Google Doc with the assembly notes.
This function additionally feels like accessibility device for anybody (like me) who has bother processing spoken language and taking notes on the identical time. It may enable them to be extra centered and totally current throughout conferences as an alternative of getting to ask somebody to repeat what they mentioned a number of occasions.
AI could make a variety of errors; each time I’ve used Meet’s transcription device, I’ve to return by the routinely generated transcript to confirm that it appropriately captured the dialog. In my expertise, that always entails listening to particular components of the recording once more and manually fixing the transcript. I’m skeptical however hopeful Google Meet might be a greater note-taker than transcriber.
