A new update to Google Meet aims to help users focus more on their meetings than ever before by enabling automatic note-taking.
First announced in August 2023 and powered by the company’s Gemini AI platform, the new “Take Notes for Me” tool is now finally available to Google Workspace users.
However, not all video conferencing users will be able to use the tool right away. The tool is initially only available to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons.
Google Meet “Take notes for me”
“It can be challenging to stay informed and involved in meeting discussions, while also maintaining a record of the meeting and subsequent follow-ups,” according to Google Workspace Updates blog post when announcing the launch.
“Take notes for me” is an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes, so you can focus on discussion, collaboration, and presentation during your meetings.”
This feature is enabled by default, but can also be activated by selecting the pencil icon in the top right corner of the screen. The feature automatically captures meeting notes to a Google Docs file, which is stored in the Google Drive account of the person hosting the meeting.
The note document is also linked to the calendar appointment, meaning your colleagues or employees within your organization will also have access to it.
Once the meeting ends, Google Meet will send an email with a link to the notes to both the meeting owner and anyone who has enabled “take notes for me.”
Anyone who arrives late to the meeting can quickly catch up with a “summary so far” that summarizes what’s happened so far. For now, the feature is also only available when using Google Meet on a desktop or laptop, and meetings must be conducted in spoken English.
The launch is the latest step in Google Meet’s plan to be more effective and useful to customers everywhere.
One example of this is the AI Meetings and Messaging add-on, a suite of AI-powered tools that will hopefully help employees work more efficiently and make collaboration within companies more productive.
The plan costs $10 per user per month for “most” Google Workspace plans, and also includes an expanded “Translate for Me” feature that automatically detects and translates captions in Google Meet conversations, and an expansion of Google Chat rooms to 500,000 members for those company-wide chats.
Gmail is also getting improved voice commands, so users can easily send emails on the go. There’s also a tool that lets you turn rough notes into a complete email with a single click.