isLucid is a voice recognition solution that makes extracting insights from and acting on your meetings, conferences, and discussions easier. The company started as a small, 4-member team backed by a moderate amount of venture capital, focused on building voice recognition-enabled solutions for the Microsoft ecosystem. isLucid is a Microsoft Partner, which means that you can expect seamless interoperability between the isLucid platform and MS Teams. It provides an almost native user experience and complies with all major privacy regulations and laws.
isLucid has the potential to revolutionise how you do meetings and also stay productive on project management tools like Jira, MS Planner, and Azure DevOps. It makes it radically simple to create tasks and action items from spoken conversations, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture what’s said accurately. What’s more, isLucid can be used for Teams deployment worldwide, with functionalities available in English, Lithuanian, Russian, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
isLucid has been available for Teams users since early 2021. Let us review its key features and capabilities in detail.
Inside isLucid for Microsoft Teams
You can directly add isLucid to your Microsoft Teams interface from the Teams app store. Navigate to the app store from your left navigation pane, click on “search for isLucid,” and click on add, ensuring that your organisation has enabled thyroid-party app permissions before installing. This will enable the following key features and functionalities:
- Live meeting transcription – The isLucid app auto-generates meeting transcripts from every conversation on Teams. This feature is powered by its sophisticated voice-to-text technology, which enables real-time voice recognition.
- Task action from transcripts – As isLucid displays the ongoing conversation as text; you can directly convert what’s said during meetings into action points. For example, if participant A says, “the product description has to be updated,” then you can directly select the text snippet from the live transcript on isLucid. This will allow you to add it as a task on an integrated app like Jira, Microsoft Planner, Azure DevOps, etc.
- Participant marking on transcripts – isLucid breaks down the conversation to tell exactly who said what. Instead of a continuous monologue, text chunks are segmented via timestamps and speaker names.
- Action point summary – Along with the live transcription, you will also be able to view an overview of all the action points detected and marked during the conversation. isLucid has an interesting feature that allows you to auto-generate summaries (a little like Microsoft’s own AI summary feature on Teams). Based on the meeting transcript and action points, a shareable summary is created, which can be directly sent to one, multiple, or all meeting participants.
- Follow-up documents – After every meeting, you’ll have the option to auto-generate a follow-up document that can be shared with meeting participants. This document lists all the relevant action points for future reference.
- ML training – At its core, isLucid is powered by advanced machine learning models – and you can choose to train these models on company data. This can be extremely useful if you regularly conduct meetings on domain-specific topics that utilise a unique lexicon. Custom ML training means that isLucid is more likely to generate accurate transcriptions, understand your region’s linguistic inflections, and adapt easily to non-English languages.
- Non-English language support – As mentioned, isLucid is available in six different languages apart from English, and the company promises custom functionalities if your language isn’t currently supported. Thanks to the isolated, bespoke ML engine, you can also better train the ML in your preferred language.
- Meeting history – From the isLucid app on Teams, you can view a full record of past meetings and their summaries, action points, and other details. This makes isLucid accessible as a complete Teams app in addition to being a meeting extension.
Why the isLucid App Makes a Difference
isLucid is the perfect voice technology-enabled transcription tool for mid-sized to large enterprises. It complies with a host of privacy regulations, and you can choose to have isLucid installed in your private Azure cloud for additional security. The transcription feature can be toggled to OFF in case of sensitive conversations. And action points or tasks generated from conversations can be validated using isLucid’s blockchain technology, alerting you immediately if the original task is modified.
What We Think
For teams relying on frequent meetings and collaborative discussions to get work done, isLucid is an invaluable add-on.
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