Do you use AI-powered software to record meeting notes? If so, what do you use?
Ryan Hoover
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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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Jeremy Caplan@jeremycaplan
I'm testing a new service called http://4149.ai which has a unique feature that's super useful. In addition to creating a meeting summary it allows you to ask the AI questions of the transcript and delivers surprisingly accurate and useful responses. It's surprisingly handy to be able to ask natural language questions about what someone said about something or to ask about patterns or examples of how something has come up over the past few meetings, etc. I haven't seen that feature in other services and it seems a step above other more basic AI summaries. Incidentally, I've also been using Supernormal, which works well, with good, clear, accurate summaries.
Share
Yes, My team is using tl;dv and our experience is not good.. what tools did you use as of now ?
@shiiv_shankar Sorry to hear! What exactly is not great? Happy to help and get this sorted :)
MeetGeek
@shiiv_shankar I worked with a team using TLDV, while we were using MeetGeek, and they were impressed by the system we were using. They have a decent free tier if you want to test it, I highly recommend it
I just stumbled on https://supernormal.com I have yet to try it.
Product Hunt
@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.
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.
Product Hunt
@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.
Fito Group Fitness
User Evaluation
https://userevaluation.com does a pretty decent job if you’re looking to go beyond notes.
voxqube
Try tactiq:
No bots
Accurate
Summarization works great
I used it for customer developments and happy with results
https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Product Hunt
@tolianich the pitch sounds like what I need. Also looks like they have pretty impressive reach with 250K users.
Thanks for mentioning us, @tolianich!
Hey, @rrhoover Tactiq.io co-founder here! Yes, meeting knowledge is the key. We already added ChatGPT meeting summaries and users love it.
The GPT4 meeting kit got 2k users on a waitlist in 24 hours. Looking forward to the PH launch :)
I'd love to hear your feedback and share what's next! Let me know what is the best way to reach out.
@tolianich Definitely my favorite too as a marketing project manager.
SuperNormal
@tolianich @rrhoover @ksenia_svechnikova Do I have to use the Zoom web client for Tactiq to work or can I use the Zoom native client?
Conversa - Videos That Talk back
@tolianich @rrhoover @ksenia_svechnikova I love it when founders jump in like that! Only on Product Hunt!
Mammoth 2
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.
I've heard good things about Fireflies.ai :) https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
TracGen
Free on your computer after the call with MacWhisper or Buzz
Airgram!
We have been testing Otter.ai with the team! So far seems good but will keep you posted.
Product Hunt
@mirena_vasileva I've used Otter before for transcription. How are their meeting summaries?
We use Fathom in every call with founders. The key feature that makes it work is the "Highlight" button — this minor human-in-the-loop makes the summary SO much better.
I was nervous about the bot joining as well, but we always ask and only a few people have had concerns. (And it's increasingly common that founders are bringing their own bot.)
Disclosure: Also a portfolio company.
Product Hunt
@john_zeratsky tbh, I don't like having a bot join the call. It just feels weird, almost like a faceless person sitting in the corner of the room taking notes. :P
Mammoth 2
@john_zeratsky @rrhoover Hey Ryan, do you think it'd feel any better if you were able to customize the video feed or title of the bot participant name to match the branding of your fund or otherwise personalize it to suit your aesthetic preferences?
For a lot of these video integration paths (cough, Google Meet), the video platform doesn't provide great hooks to achieve the recording capability without a bot participant as a sort of workaround to capture & summarize the context from the meeting.
It's a tricky challenge, as it is also important to ensure the participants on the call are always consenting to being recorded (I'm sure you're giving them a heads up, but cannot guarantee this across all use-cases & as a provider of one of these tools, want to ensure the participants know the call is being recorded), but agreed, re: good for this to be subtle and not interfere with the flow of conversation.
I do wonder though if it'd be better to have a "lite mode" offering where the call is actually not recorded at all, and the tool just pulls the existing platform's closed captions eg off the meeting and uses that alone as the basis for summarization. You think that'd fit your needs better?
@john_zeratsky Could you share the link?
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
Summer Bod 2020
I use Otter.ai
I like it. I don't use the summaries.
Hundrx: Web3 for Twitter
We use supernormal.ai at Hundrx and the team loves it!
Cake Equity
Hello @rrhoover
I know our team at Cake is using https://otter.ai/.
Cheers,
Hi! Fathom founder here - we use a bot to record and think it's the best way to do it today so curious why that's a requirement. I'm assuming it's because you don't want people to know you're recording?
A lot of our early investors were actually users first so I know these calls do get recorded.
It's funny I think both investors and founders think the other side is worried about being recorded when our experience has been that most people don't mind it, and actually prefer it if they can get access to the recording.
But again, really curious if my assumption about the "why" behind that requirement is correct.
Product Hunt
@richard_white thanks for jumping in! I can understand why some people would prefer an explicit bot to "enter the room". I prefer something invisible, and in general want a future where technology makes me dramatically more efficient and effective as a person (not as a person using a tool) if that makes sense.
We havent used any really. Any suggestions?