Meeting bot (AI meeting assistant)
An automated participant that joins a video call to record and transcribe it, then delivers the summary afterwards.
A meeting bot (or AI note-taker) is one more participant in the video call, but automated: it joins under its own name, records the audio and, when the meeting ends, takes care of the transcript, summary and actions. Nobody has to remember to record or take notes.
Because it records everyone in the meeting, it’s important that it’s visible and announces itself. A bot that joins without identifying itself breeds mistrust and, depending on the case, data protection problems.
Echo’s assistant joins Microsoft Teams meetings, by hand with the link or automatically from your calendar. It joins with a name that makes clear it’s recording, posts a notice in the chat and, if you like, shows on its camera that the meeting is being recorded. For Google Meet and Zoom, for now, there’s the Chrome extension or uploading the recording.
More on the meeting assistant page and, on telling attendees, in recording Teams meetings and the GDPR.
