AI Note Takers - App or hardware?

[AB]

Does anyone use these?

I had a meeting with a guy this week who had a concise summary of the meeting over to me as soon as he left. It was clearly written using a note taking recorder type thing but it didn’t miss an important point and even recognised different voices.

I think it’d be handy if only to refer back to when my sieve like brain forgets to write something down.

Interested to hear any recommendations.

[x5tuu]

Was it not just the Transcribe function in Teams? Thats gotten very good in the last couple of updates.

[Calza]

Agree - the function in team to transcribe and summarise if very good nowadays.

[AB]

I was looking for something that could work face to face also, rather than online meetings.

[OMITN]

A colleague uses the Hidock H1 for in-person meetings.

https://www.hidock.com/products/hidock-h1-audio-do...

Looks pretty good and you can go into the text and make it play the recording from there if you want to check the transcription. Looked accurate though.

[92203]

My other half is doing post-grad course through her employers. She has been using an app called Coco Note on to take lecture notes https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coconote-ai-note-tak...

I've been very impressed with what it can do. It is expensive, but very feature rich.

[kevinon]

There's interesting work being done on AI in clinical settings.

So the AI would summarise, and suggest a 'next steps' for patients / clients. Obviously the clinician / therapist would take responsibility for reviewing the output. But it does point towards a 'brave new world' in a shorter time period than I thought possible.

So, back on topic, I would now say that commercial apps are very credible.

[vaud]

AB said:

I was looking for something that could work face to face also, rather than online meetings.

You can upload an mp3 file into word O365 and it will transcribe. You can push that into copilot for a summary.

But that is a bit long winded.

[fat80b]

For online meetings, I've used fathom.video - I ws initially a bit sceptical, but it's pretty good and automatically figures out the style of the meeting and summarises it accordingly.

[AB]

OMITN said:

A colleague uses the Hidock H1 for in-person meetings.

https://www.hidock.com/products/hidock-h1-audio-do...

Looks pretty good and you can go into the text and make it play the recording from there if you want to check the transcription. Looked accurate though.

I've been pestered by an advert for this recently and I was very tempted. Not so easy for an out of office meeting I wouldn't have thought.

Thanks for suggestions so far, I'm not against trying a few different things to find one that works for me, but there seems to be so many out there.