Do you use AI-powered software to record meeting notes? If so, what do you use?

Ryan Hoover
121 replies
I've tried using tools that automatically take notes during my Zoom/Google Meet calls, but none of them have stuck. A full transcription is overkill and summaries often miss the most important points. Additional context: Most of my calls are fundraising-related conversations with founders. I would prefer NOT to have a "bot" join a call and ideally the notes could automatically be shared in a specific Slack channel with my team. I'm curious what tools people are using and for what use cases. I'd appreciate any recommendations. :)

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Matt Ellsworth
Free on your computer after the call with MacWhisper or Buzz
Brian Wang
Fito Group Fitness
Fito Group Fitness
I've been using Vowel for over a year now and they released AI-powered summary notes recently. It is actually quite impressive. It's about 80-90% accurate and certainly useful enough for me to use to capture key points. It can be wonky when classifying items as Decisions or Action Items, but that's a minor annoyance. Workflow wise, I take a minute to clean up the Vowel summary, paste it into Notion and then use Notion's AI-powered summarize feature so I can quickly scan what a meeting was about.
Brian Wang
Fito Group Fitness
Fito Group Fitness
@rrhoover it's a total Zoom/Meet replacement, so if you're wed to those platforms, then Vowel won't help unfortunately
Ryan Hoover
@brianmwang I've loosely followed Vowel but haven't tried it yet. It doesn't plugin to Zoom, Meet, or other video tools though, right? I want an invisible note-taker that can join all my (mostly) external calls.
Josh Willis
@rrhoover We're working on something like this at spinach.io. Hit me up if you want to try it out with your team.
Chris Mackintosh
I just stumbled on https://supernormal.com I have yet to try it.
Ryan Hoover
@chrismackintosh oh yes, I very briefly tried Supernormal when they were very early. The summaries weren't good enough for me, tbh. But it was early. I need to revisit.
TrooMobile
I use Otter but it does have the bot that joins … if you have suspicious callers and you’re not disclosing you’re recording the call it can be challenging
Tarikh Korula
Reboot Podcast #33 - Do I Even Have A Superpower?
Reboot Podcast #33 - Do I Even Have A Superpower?
Used and like rev.com also got a rec for kohort.io but haven't tried yet
Chikodi Chima
Otter is probably one you’ve already tried. I’m happy with it for capturing meeting notes that can quickly be turned into blog content or other types of public facing materials. Summaries and highlights are OK at best. I’ve also been looking to try out Descript, though I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Gong might be overkill.
Sarrah
@chikodi used to love Otter but the price increase are too much. I downloaded Descript but the learning curve seems really high
Chikodi Chima
@sarrah The Otter price increase seemed to come out of nowhere, and something about it felt off, I agree.
Yonas
StackShare
StackShare
I've heard good things about Fireflies.ai :) https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Chris Messina
Fathom has added AI summaries that are quite good!
Stephen
Conversa - Videos That Talk back
Conversa - Videos That Talk back
Brandon Hull
I tested Grain.com 2 years ago but didn't adopt. Revisited it 2 weeks ago and discovered its AI-generated summary and highlights feature and we've adopted it within my team. I really like it for both Google Meet and Zoom. But...it does have a bot join the call.
Sean Song
We made HiDock to record meetings on device. After recording user can choose any online or offline transcript tools to convert the audio to text. Thanks to Kevin William David for hunting it. check it out: www.hidock.com
Jordi Mon Companys
I can’t keep attention and take notes at the same time. My solution is a whisper-based, locally ran transcription software on top of which I – immediately after the call – standout, highlight or mark the highlights and what needs to be stored for future reference.
Chuck Robinson
Otter.ai so far. I’ve learned I need to enunciate more
Ryan C Brown
Cactus for Mobile
https://www.buildbetter.app/ You can upload the recording and it transcribes and points out key moments and insights.
Ryan C Brown
Cactus for Mobile
Also, haven't tried this, but: https://krisp.ai/ai-meeting-assi...
Dan Miller
Funny. Just got back from Enterprise Connect and I came back with the impression that all the major conferencing platforms: Webex, Zoom and Microsoft have beefed up their "native" transcription and summarization. Diarization too. I probably need to get more info because I came to believe that these functions are going to be embedded.
David OKuniev
Formless by Typeform
Formless by Typeform
We've been @typeform (labs) experimenting in this space for a while with https://relayed.ai a product that seamlessly combines asynchronous with synchronous in person communication (making it unique in the space). + it does NOT use bots to join calls, since we own the end-to-end experience @rrhoover + Summarizes everything sync and async nicely, saving loads of time The product is still in private beta, but you can just click on "Log in" and you'll go straight through. https://relayed.ai
Jay Song
We are building what you are looking for @rrhoover and would love to show you when it's ready!
Tyler Swartz
@rrhoover A bit late to the convo, but I saw that Krisp launched this week and might be what you are looking for. Looks like it just runs locally on your laptop listening to your calls and then transcribes them. https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Satori H
we use https://www.laxis.com/ , like the ChatGPT integration to search and QA on meeting transcript, and also the post meeting notes
Joshua Dance
Summer Bod 2020
I use Otter.ai I like it. I don't use the summaries.