No chatter: AI tool Zoom cuts out unimportant moments from the recorded meeting


In the quarantine era, many videoconferencing services have significantly improved their functionality. For example, almost all software now supports the recording function so that if a person misses an important meeting or conference, he can sit down and watch the content later. But the developers of Zoom decided that it would take a long time to watch the entire recording, so today, on May 26, the developers of the service introduced a new function based on artificial intelligence – it will demonstrate all the important points from the recording, eliminating the need to view everything that happened at the event.

According to the authors of the function, AI-based technology works quite simply – at the end of the meeting, the platform will automatically select those segments of the conference that are most important. After that, the user will receive a shortened excerpt of the meeting, which can be viewed much faster than the full recording. But, of course, it will not always be possible to rely on this algorithm, so the function will gradually learn – a person himself can mark important parts of the conference so that other people who will later watch the recording do not miss something interesting.

Zoom itself claims that its artificial intelligence system selects the desired segments of the meeting on the record based on keywords. That is, the user will need to turn on the recording of meetings with automatic transcription of sound, and when the meeting is completed, the system will filter out those words and phrases that seem unnecessary by the algorithm. Most likely, we are talking about all kinds of introductions, courtesies, small talk and other turns that do not carry any value. But, unfortunately, such a useful feature is only available when you purchase a paid subscription, only when you write to the cloud, and exclusively in English. It is possible that the language pack will be expanded in the future, but so far there is no information about this.

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