As the meeting continues, attendees can use Otter's live transcript to highlight key parts, add pictures, and make notes. The assistant also posts a link to the transcription in the Zoom chat for everyone to access. The assistant will then automatically join all of Zoom meetings moving forward, where it shows up as an additional meeting participant, for transparency's sake. To use the new Otter Assistant, users first synchronize their Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar with Otter's service, as per Fast Company. Now, this is one area where Otter.ai can help, but it can also help with issues like overlapping meetings, or larger meetings were only a few topics are directly relevant to your work as you can review the rest of the meeting discussion later, instead of in real-time.
The idea to automate meeting transcription makes sense for the remote setting created by the COVID-19 pandemic, where people have been working, homeschooling, and doing other duties at home. The feature also works around the earlier limitation with Zoom, where only the meeting host could use the Otter.ai integration directly, Engadget reports.Īlso Read: Zoom Hacking is on the Rise: Here's What You Need To Do To Be Secure