Google Meet ‘Take notes for me’ AI Feature is Rolling Out to Workspace Users

Google Meet is getting a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) characteristic that may enable customers to obtain AI-generated notes as soon as the assembly has concluded. On Tuesday, the tech big introduced the rollout of the characteristic to its Workspace customers. Dubbed ‘Take notes for me’, it makes use of the capabilities of Gemini AI to transcribe and summarise the principle speaking factors throughout a gathering. Notably, the characteristic was first previewed by the corporate final yr, nonetheless, it was solely out there in beta until now.

Google Meet Gets an AI Note-Taker

The announcement was made by Google in its Workspace blog, the place the corporate highlighted that the characteristic was rolling out in a phased method beginning August 27. It would possibly take customers as much as 15 days earlier than they see it at their finish. The ‘Take notes for me’ characteristic is accessible for Google Workspace customers who’ve both Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or the AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons.

Take notes for me characteristic on Google Meet
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Once the AI characteristic is accessible, customers can discover it within the Gemini AI icon (pencil with sparkle) on top-right of the Meet interface. Clicking the icon will present a brief description of how ‘Take notes for me’ works, and a button to allow it. After enabling it, a brand new doc is created within the drive of the organiser of the assembly.

While by default, the Gemini-powered characteristic will solely take notes and never transcribe every thing that was stated, there’s an choice to activate transcription as effectively. Further, the identical menu interface additionally exhibits an choice to document the assembly.

Once the assembly has concluded, the ‘Take notes for me’ characteristic will connect the doc with the AI-generated notes to the Calendar occasion of the assembly and share it with all members inside the organisation. It will not be clear whether or not any friends outdoors of the organisation may even get entry to the doc by default.

Participants can even faucet on the identical icon to verify abstract that has been generated thus far at any level throughout the assembly. While the characteristic has been rolled out to Google Meet, at the moment it is just out there on a desktop or laptop computer and note-taking prompts solely when the members converse in English.