Google has launched its AI tool in Google Meet that will now gather important notes or summarize the entire conversation for future reference.

“Today, we’re pleased to announce that “take notes for me” will begin rolling out to Google Meet for select Google Workspace customers,” said the company.

This tool is very similar to the Meet’s transcription tool which produces the transcription of the entire meeting. This AI feature however will only produce the summary or relevant points.

Pros of this AI feature

It will immensely help those who have a hard time to focus on the meetings and to take notes simulatenously.

For those who arrive late at the meeting, they would be able to Catch up through the notes through the “summary so far” feature.

The notes will be saved in the Google Docs and will be marked on the Calender Event accessible to the participants. The Google Doc will get attached to the meeting owner and to those who turned on the feature.

Limitations of the Google Meet’s AI “Take Notes for Me” feature

At present, the feature will only work on Google Meet running on computers and laptops and not on the App.

The efficacy of this feature is yet to reviewed by the masses as the rolling out will get completed by 10th September 2024.

As of now, the AI feature can only understand English therefore utterance of any other language in between meetings is not going to be understood by the AI.

It would be interesting to see whether the AI tool would be able to generate notes from the moments when Internet glitch happen for sustained period of time where Audio clarity suffers.

Who can avail the service?

The AI feature can only be availed by Google Workspace customers who have subscribed to Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium and AI Meetings & Messaging. The company has begun roll out of the feature on 27th August with the complete roll out expected to be completed by 10th September.

Google Meet may have launched its new AI feature but there are few third party tools in the market that claims to do a similar job. These are krisp.ai, Tactiq, Fellow, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Trint, Simon Says, Grain, Castmagic, Bluedot, VEED.IO, tl;dv. Most of the third party features produce real-time transcriptions instead of a summary.