You Can Have Google Meet Take Notes for Your In-Person Meetings Too

Google Meet's "Take Notes for me" feature is one particularly useful implementation of AI. When you're on a video call, Gemini can dictate what's being said, offering summaries and highlights of the conversation. Your attention doesn't need to be split between the conversation at hand and writing down notes to remember key points later: The notes are automatically generated as a Google Doc once the meeting is over. It's the kind of feature that sells me more on the whole "AI assistant" thing, much more so than an app trying to order me a coffee . Video conferencing isn't the only time dictation can be useful, of course. An in-person meeting can benefit from the same perks as a virtual one: Why bother with scribbling down notes on paper or typing away on a laptop when your phone can transcribe the chat on your behalf? I've used the Voice Memos app on my iPhone for the task, since it's easy to record audio and an generate automatic transcription of the conversation that way. But if you're a regular Google Meet user, you now have a similar option in your app of choice, as Meet's "Take Notes for me" feature now supports live, in-person meetings too. How "Take Notes for me" works in person As noted by 9to5Google , here's how it works: You open the Google Meet site or app on your device, but rather than start a call, you can use the "Take Notes for me" option to task Gemini with transcribing and summarizing your discussion. You can hit "Pause" at any time to pause dictation, a…