Or they would have to have a split-screen view for both. One of the peculiar things about this new set of functionalities is that the notetaker will have to open the Otter window and concentrate on that to highlight stuff, instead of looking at the presentation. Otter’s meeting gems are quick notes in a new avatar. This can be handy for YouTube creators or podcasters to easily divide their content into different sections. Lau said that the AI is capable of automatically using the transcript to chapter titles or sections in a recording. So Otter’s directly competing with their partners in that area. Notably, Zoom launched AI highlights for paid customers last year. So we want to make sure that the type of content that we’re trained on AI is optimized for understanding meeting scenarios. We’re laser-focused on the meeting use cases. Simon Lau, Otter’s SVP of product, said that it’s using customer data (only those people who’ve opted-in to provide training data of course), and other public resources to train its AI: The feature is currently in beta, and available for the web version only.

This summarizes the key points for you automatically. The company is also introducing AI-powered meeting highlights. Plus, there’s a handy screenshot button to insert an image into the transcript for visual context.

This means you can easily revisit important points of the meeting - and even assign these segments to specific team members. You can now highlight sentences in the transcript, and they’re added to a sidebar called Meeting Gems. Otter has included new tools for live transcription and note-taking. There’s also an option for you to share the live transcription link, so others can look at it during the meeting. This way, you can ask the assistant to join a conflicting appointment, and record it, so you can listen to it later.

You can make changes to those meetings, and even select if the Otter Assistant - the company’s AI-powered bot that records meetings automatically - will join.

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