Google Meet’s AI note-taking feature, “take notes for me”, has started rolling out to Workspace customers.
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The new AI capability takes notes automatically, enabling users to focus their energies on communicating, collaborating, and presenting in meetings.
Following the meeting, the notes are attached to the calendar event, where they can be accessed by the meeting participants.
This feature is currently available for meetings in English only, using the Google Meet video conferencing platform with computers and laptops.
The US technology news website, The Verge, quoted Dave Citron, Google’s Senior Director of Product for Meet, who commented on its ambition for Google Meet: “The Meet product is really a turnaround story in a lot of ways.
“Now we’re spending that same deep energy we spent over the last few years to get to enterprise-grade to be the best cutting-edge video conferencing product on the market.”
Citron continued:
We really want meetings to feel like they’re bringing people together into the same room regardless of where you are and your device… regardless of your connection speed, your camera quality, your microphone quality.”
The Google Meet executive also explained that there have been three eras of innovation for video conferencing in recent times: the pandemic, the return to hybrid work, and the advancements in AI technologies that we are experiencing right now.
In Citron’s words, there is an “inflexion point that we hit over the last eight months with large language models and diffusion models”.
Therefore, the tech giant is introducing AI features into Google Meet and, more broadly, across its applications.
In May, for example, it released Google AI Teammate for Workspace at Google I/O. The new AI feature effectively acts like another coworker, interacting with others within a multi-user space, such as chat groups, emails, and documents.
Benefits of AI Note-Taking
The announcement was made via the official Google Workspace blog, which outlined some of the advantages of implementing “take notes for me”.
This includes capturing meeting notes in Google Docs and saving them within the Google Drive of the user who created the meeting.
It helps participants who join meetings late to catch up on the key points so far via its “summary so far” feature.
Another major benefit is that the meeting organiser, along with the meeting participants who have chosen to receive meeting recaps, will be sent an email with a link to the meeting summary.
The Google Workspace team also gave directions on ‘getting started’ for admins and end users.
“Take notes for me” will be on by default for admins and can be configured at both the OU and Group level.
End users can set meeting records to begin automatically after the capability has first been enabled by admins.
The AI note-taking feature will be rolled out gradually, beginning on August 27 and expected to be completed by September 10.
Availability will specifically be granted to Google Workspace customers with either Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings and Messaging add-ons.
