Google Meet’s automatic AI note taking is here

Google Meet’s newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling retired today to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, oregon AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons. It’s akin to Meet’s transcription tool, lone alternatively of automatically transcribing what everyone says, it summarizes what everyone talked about. Google first announced this feature astatine its 2023 Cloud Next conference.

Unfortunately, it lone supports spoken English close now, but it seems similar it could marque missing an important gathering little stressful; it automatically takes notes successful a Google Doc and volition connect that record to the calendar lawsuit aft the gathering is over, truthful you tin notation them aboriginal on. It volition besides nonstop that Google Doc to the gathering organizer and anyone other who turned the diagnostic on.

Running precocious to a meeting? Google says its caller diagnostic volition besides springiness you a summary of what you missed, truthful erstwhile you are capable to join, you tin rapidly drawback up — and nary 1 should person to interest astir repeating themselves. If you usage Google Meet’s recordings and transcripts instrumentality astatine the aforesaid time, links to those files volition besides beryllium provided successful the aforesaid Google Doc with the gathering notes.

This diagnostic besides sounds similar a bully accessibility instrumentality for anyone (like me) who has occupation processing spoken connection and taking notes astatine the aforesaid time. It mightiness let them to beryllium much focused and afloat contiguous during meetings alternatively of having to inquire idiosyncratic to repetition what they said aggregate times.

Google expects to implicit the rollout to each Google Workspace customers by September 10, 2024 — but there’s nary warrant how close Google Meet’s caller feature volition really be.

AI tin marque a batch of mistakes; each clip I’ve utilized Meet’s transcription instrumentality I person to spell backmost done the automatically generated transcript to verify that it correctly captured the conversation. In my experience, that often entails listening to circumstantial parts of the signaling again and manually fixing the transcript. I’m skeptical but hopeful Google Meet volition beryllium a amended note-taker than transcriber.