Abstract created by Good Solutions AI
In abstract:
- Google Meet is increasing past video calls by including in-person transcription and AI abstract options that straight compete with devoted companies like Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai.
- PCWorld studies this performance works for conferences on any platform together with Zoom and Groups, with summaries robotically generated in Google Docs.
- The function is obtainable by particular Google One and Google Workspace plans, probably disrupting the transcription market by providing related capabilities at decrease prices.
Google might have simply come for Otter.ai, one in every of my most favored AI transcription companies, in the identical manner it got here for GPS firms.
On October 28, 2009, Google launched Google Maps Navigation, providing free turn-by-turn navigation as you drove. It took established GPS mapping firms, reminiscent of Garmin and TomTom, and just about wiped them out in a single day. A quiet improve to Google Meet alerts that Google is taking intention at Otter and its rivals — although they’ve a tiny little bit of respiration room, for the second.
For me, a transcription utility is important to make sure I report quotations appropriately and unearth small however essential particulars. Many videoconferencing functions now provide transcripts and AI summaries, as does Otter. However all of that processing takes place through the in-app assistant, which listens in on the digital name and data what’s occurring. Now Google Meet has taken it a step additional, extending transcription and AI summaries to in-person conferences, as properly.
“No matter whether or not your assembly is in-person, or hosted on one other supplier like Zoom or Groups, merely faucet ‘Take Notes for me’ on the Google Meet residence display screen out of your cellular machine or desktop, and Gemini will seize a abstract and motion gadgets from the dialog in a Google Doc,” Google mentioned Wednesday. (The emphasis is Google’s.)
Put one other manner, if you happen to personal an Android cellphone, recording and transcribing a dialog, together with an AI abstract (based on your state’s native legal guidelines), is as simple as merely setting down the machine and launching the Meet utility. That’s one thing Otter has completed very properly, however not a service provided by Meet or Microsoft Groups.
That’s an enormous deal. Otter is my most popular service for recording interviews, just because it gives a transcript of the dialog that I can refer again to later. For the Professional plan (1,200 minutes per thirty days, with dialog lengths that may go over two hours), Otter expenses $16.99/mo or about half that per thirty days on an annual foundation. A rival, Fireflies.ai, expenses $10 per seat and goes up from there. Sure, conversations are saved within the cloud, however nonetheless, that’s $17 or in order that I may very well be spending on different issues.
Effectively, sort of. Google didn’t say something about pricing. On an nameless Google Chrome occasion, transcription will probably be provided on “sure Google One, Google Workspace Enterprise, and Google Workspace Enterprise plans,” Google says. The Normal Google One plan prices $29.99 per 12 months, whereas AI Plus is $79.99 yearly.
I not often use Meet’s transcription function, if solely as a result of my contacts not often use Meet. However each frequent note-taker ought to perk up their ears. I at all times knew that someday a free transcription app would arrive in the marketplace, and I’ve severely thought-about vibe-coding my very own. Google Meet’s in-person transcription may not be a actuality but, however it appears headed that manner. Look out, Otter.
