ETtech Explainer: How is AI revolutionising note-taking?

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AI transcription and note-taking is an area that is seeing adoption in almost every application we interact with today. But is it enhancing employee productivity? ET explains.

How is AI transforming note-taking and transcription?

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Just last week, Google integrated its AI note-taking app ‘NotebookLM’ with its most powerful Gemini large language model. NotebookLM can summarise notes, documents, answer questions, and turn them into outlines or scripts. For instance, based on a discussion on monthly project review, the application can identify the bottlenecks in the project plan and suggest the ideal next steps. Today, all our Zoom, Google Meet meetings are auto-transcribed as we speak.

Google’s meetings are powered by Duet AI, which helps attendees to catch up and revisit what happened on the calls. A private Duet chatbot can refresh your memory if you are zoned out in the middle of the conversation. You can also skip a meeting and ask Duet to attend on your behalf and add some points which you might have wanted to discuss. It gives meeting summaries with action items and video snippets, real-time teleprompting and live translated captions.

Meanwhile, video conferencing application Zoom recently partnered with Otter.ai to roll out similar features. OtterPilot shows up as a separate guest in a virtual Zoom meeting and displays a live transcript, and can even generate follow up emails.

Is it enhancing productivity?

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