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Hello there, let's get into it! 👇
Task for the day 📝
🧱 Project: Create Automatic Meeting Notes
⏲️ Estimated time: 30 mins
🛠️ Tools: Otter.ai
Context building 🏔
Today you’ll be learning how to automatically create summaries of your meetings using Otter.ai.
Typing out transcripts or taking notes during a meeting takes too much time and effort. Otter turns your voice conversations into smart notes that you can easily search and share. You can think of it like your personal secretary for online meetings, boosting productivity and efficiency.
In this lesson you’ll learn…
- The basics of Otter.ai.
- How to summarise your meeting notes automatically
Let's prep 🥗
What’s Otter.ai?
Otter.ai is an AI-powered tool that transcribes spoken language into written text, recognizes different speakers, and allows you to search, edit, and share your transcriptions.
Get ready to create!
To make your life easier when you start using this tool, it’s good to get some practical stuff out the way first. Follow these steps so you’re ready:
- Open Otter.ai in a new tab in your browser
- Ensure you have Zoom, Google Meet, or your preferred video conferencing tool installed and set up on your device. We will integrate Otter.ai and your preferred video call tool in a later step.
- For this lesson, you'll need a meeting to transcribe. Think about what upcoming meeting in your calendar is best to try this out on!
- If you are using Zoom or Google Meet, ensure that you have the necessary permissions to record and transcribe meetings. See here for Google and here for Zoom.
Time to cook 👩🍳
- Set Up Otter.ai with Your Video Conferencing Tool
In this phase, you will be integrating Otter.ai with the video conferencing tool you use. This is crucial as it allows Otter.ai to directly access the audio from your meetings and transcribe it in real-time.
Follow these steps.
- Start a Meeting and Enable Otter.ai Transcription
When you start a meeting and enable Otter.ai is will begin transcribing. This step will help you generate the summaries, and follow-up tasks
Follow these steps.
- Generate Meeting Notes and Summaries
This is where you begin to see the real value of Otter.ai, as it makes this process much quicker and easier than doing it manually.
- 1. After your meeting, go to your Otter.ai account and click into the transcription of your recently finished meeting.
- 2. Otter.ai automatically generates a summary of your meeting, but you can edit it if you wish. To do this, click on the "Summary" tab and make any changes you want. Highlight sections of text and click the tick icon to create a new Action Item.
- 3. To create meeting notes, you can highlight key parts of the transcription. To do this, select the text you want to highlight and click on the "Highlight" button.
- 4. Use ‘Otter Chat’ to ask questions about what was discussed in the meeting and what the action items are.
- 5. Click the link icon under summary to share the summary with your team members to make sure they’re up to date.
That’s a wrap, we hope you found this lesson helpful!
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