AI meeting summarization tools make it surprisingly easy to record a meeting, get a transcript of the meeting and also get a summary of that meeting.
A transcript is actually much less useful than a summary because the transcript requires you to dig through all of the words spoken at a meeting, whereas a summary gives you just the essence. And in many cases that you want to review a meeting quickly or a class session, or anything that you're recording. It's much easier to have a summary and with AI, you can now get a summary that's actually a really high quality, distillation of the meeting that you've been in or the class that you've been teaching or learning. And it's remarkable how much time that can save when you are going back to a meeting and wanting to find something out there are three tools that I've been looking at, in particular, that do a great job of summarizing meetings. And these are among many new AI, meeting summarization tools and hundreds of other kinds of AI tools. And I want to mention just three specifically that I've been looking at in particular, one is called 4140 nine.ai. And it summarizes a meeting that you've been in and sends you a Google Doc with that summary. It allows you to actually query that meeting afterwards, which is an amazing feature. So you can basically ask the transcript questions like, what were some interesting quotes or what was something funny, someone said, or what were the
what were the numbers that a speaker cited to describe the traction of the products discussed in the meeting? Or what were two of the most
memorable questions people asked or really anything? What did someone say about their early career? You can ask anything that you didn't quite hear or something you want to remind yourself about? Or how did someone answer the question about burnout or whatever it is that you are trying to remember, you can ask in a natural language query and it will show up in the document which is really powerful. If you share the document, which is the summary of the meeting with anyone they can also create a document so it's really a powerful way to have a teammate, basically an AI teammate that has a really good memory of what happened and understands the meeting. And when you have a lot of meetings that becomes really useful because it's helps ensure you can recall something later and it frees you up from having to take detailed notes about everything and or to write everything down. You can kind of start to trust and rely on the transcript, which is really helpful. supranormal is another service I've been testing which has a great feature where you can actually get the meeting summary which is really helpful. You can even customize the kind of transcript summary you want. So if it's a one on one meeting versus a job interview versus the presentation, it will set up the summary in a way that
fits with that kind of meeting or event that you're having. You can also actually have it record the video at the meeting. And that's a feature that's different from other AI meeting summary tools like 4149 or Blogspot app. In this case, you can click a part of the transcript and jump right to the video part which is which is quite useful. That's as a feature you can also do with a tool called grain but but it's not something that all of the AI and meeting summary tools can do. So that's really useful. And I found that quality of the supranormal summary is really really good uses GPC for as the end of March and some of the other services use earlier versions of GPT and I found the supranormal quality of the summary is really really good.
Blocks dot app is another tool I've been testing and it has some really great qualities. One is that once it generates a summary you can then perform AI actions on that summary so you can ask it for to create an email out of the summary or create a tweet or create a LinkedIn post or or create a summary of the summary that's even shorter. So you can perform really useful steps after you have the summary. It also has a set of features that are unique to this app in comparison to other AI meeting summary tools. So for example, you can link any meeting to the people that are participating in it. And then later on it becomes almost like a CRM, customer relationship management software tool. In other words, you can say show me all the meetings with Mark that I've had or show me all the meetings I've had with IBM people who work at IBM. And it can basically organize all of your meeting and meetings and summaries by people by company by recency and it can help you keep notes coordinated and organized. You can also take take manual notes that fit in with the automated AI summary meeting notes that you that you take and you can use it on your mobile phone as well as your desktop. So if you have a meeting in person, you could use that to summarize, you can use the mobile app to summarize in person meeting even and you can also use it to take screenshots. So if you are seeing slides, you can take screenshots of something or something in a meeting that's relevant and associate that with the meeting so it has some of those nice, really cool bonus features.
There are some other tools like otter and grain which I mentioned, that do also really good meeting transcripts and and otter still mainly focuses on the transcript though rather than summary, per se. And, and grain focuses on highlights which which are a nice feature you can share video highlights out of the meeting that you record. There are a lot of different use cases for these add meeting summary tools like classes that you're recording or meetings that you're participating in. Dictation that you want to do in some cases, like in this case, a solo meeting that I'm just using to record ideas. Not all the tools are fully developed. They're still in beta. And that's a caveat to consider. Some of them are costly or they're going to be costly $20 a month for example for blocks or $22 a month. For supranormal. So these tools are going to be a little bit costly for the ordinary everyday user although as a work tool, I think they're quite useful and valuable and save you a lot of time so I think the cost might very well be worth it but might be just a question mark for those on very tight budgets, or students for example. And there's some variability in the quality of the summary for certain types of topics or certain types of accents. Or in certain instances where there are a lot of people talking over one another there. There might be cases where the quality varies although in general I found the quality really, really high quality that to be to be really good for most of the summaries. So I'm already using these AI meeting summary tools regularly, consistently, and finding value in them. It's one of the most valuable use cases for AI tools that I've found thus far. And that's a quick summary of how I'm using a few different AI tools for meeting summaries and what their most useful features are
and with that, I think I'll wrap up this meeting summary
