Best AI Tools for Meetings
Chances are you have attended a virtual meeting with at least one additional participant, which is actually a bot. This bot not only records the meeting but can, later on, be used to analyze the meeting, providing a meeting transcript, summary, key takeaways, highlights, actionable notes, and more. It is AI at its best, making sure you can attend the meeting even when you’re not around. Just let your bot attend the meeting on your behalf. Or attend the meeting “together” with your own bot and later analyze what has been said during the call, share notes, and collaborate with others.
Modern AI tools such as Otter.ai, Dialpad, Fireflies, Tactiq, and tl;dv have changed the way we conduct online meetings and sooner or later, everyone will use one of these tools. Or at least that will happen on a group level, with one participant using a bot and later sharing access to the meeting bot with others. Pretty cool, we would say.
What can AI tools for meetings do for you?
Once you start using an AI tool for your meeting, you will never want to go back to old ways. These tools can do many things for you, including:
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Real-time transcription
Modern AI tools can transcribe the meeting in real time. It’s like having a dedicated person taking notes while you talk, except that this is a machine doing all the hard work of a human being. And it’s doing it better.
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Translation
There are also services that can translate what has been said during the meeting, presuming that one of the participants is speaking a foreign language. Heck, we have even seen tools translating in real-time.
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Summarize meetings
After every meeting, an AI tool will create a text-based summary of what has been said by everyone. You can later read this summary and even archive it for future use. Or you can share it with others who haven’t had the chance to attend the meeting.
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Generate action items
With its ability to understand what has been said during the meeting, AI tools can also come up with actionable items that could be shared with everyone participating in a meeting – or just with those who are expected to act on those items.
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Generate agendas
We all know it is important to have an agenda for every meeting, but sometimes we forget to make one. And so, some AI tools can help you in this process, generating an agenda based on the text input (prompt) you provide.
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Draft meeting minutes
These meeting minutes include key points discussed, decisions made, and action items assigned. This ensures that important details are not missed and can be shared with the team after the meeting.
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Create visual aids
In addition to agendas, visual aids will also keep meeting participants engaged. These would include things like presentations, charts, and graphs that some tools could generate if you provide them with enough data.
As we’ve said at the beginning, we expect that soon, everyone will use AI tools lik Otter.ai, Dialpad, Fireflies, Tactiq, and tl;dv for their meetings. Simply put, there are major benefits and zero downsides from what we can tell.