Google Meet adds automatic transcripts so you never miss anything else from your boring work meetings.

The worst of the coronavirus pandemic may be in the past, but business meetings are for google meeting they tend to stay strong for a long time. The good news is that the platform has just added a long-awaited feature to help you get through those long and sometimes tedious virtual meetings more easily: automatic transcripts.

Yes, as of today, Google Meet is integrating a tool that records everything that is said during a meeting and transcribes it. Thus, users can take advantage of the text version to carefully analyze all the information provided during the call, so as not to overlook any important information.

Currently, automatic transcripts only work for meetings in English. However, Google promises to add support for four more languages ​​−Spanish, Portuguese, French and German— as of 2023. Unfortunately, the people of Mountain View haven’t provided a slightly more specific date, so we’ll have to wait for further news.

The inclusion of automatic transcripts in Google Meet is not something particularly revolutionary. In fact, Microsoft Teams has had this option for a long time; while Zoom went even further with real-time translations. However, it is still a very interesting addition for those who use Google services daily as a work tool.

Google Meet adds automated transcripts

But the people of Mountain View are promising to get more out of it in the near future. Google guarantees that thanks to the transcripts, it will be able to offer statistics and other features based on these entries. However, they are not yet available and it is not very clear how they will be implemented and what scale they will have.

As is often the case with tools of this type, their usefulness will depend on each scenario or user. Those who deal with Google Meet work meetings on a daily basis, which can last several minutes, may find a stronger use case than others.

You also need to look at the quality of automatic transcriptions received by the video call service. Google already has a lot of experience with speech recognition and text-to-text – mostly thanks to Google Assistant – and we’ve seen the technology implemented in services like YouTube. The real test will be achieve such good results in other languageslike the ones you can offer in English.