Abstract is one of the common use cases of different AI models. Multiple tools have created an abstract of articles, PDFs, videos, and transcripts. Meeting intelligence tool Read has introduced a new feature that trims an hour-long meeting into a two-minute clip with important tips.
The company said it is using large language models, without specifying which one, combined with video analytics to understand the most notable parts of the meeting. Read also incorporates the reactions of the participants in the highlight reel. Users can go to their meeting recording and turn off the “Play only highlights” option to see the condensed clip.
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Read was co-founded in 2021 by former Foursquare CEO David Shim to collect meeting insights. The tool, which works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, gives you analytics like participant engagement scores and sentiment to provide insight into the effectiveness of a meeting. The company has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors including Madrona Venture Group and PSL Ventures.
Shim said that watching a recording of an hour-long meeting is very boring. He compared watching the two-minute reel to watching the highlights of a sports game. He also mentioned that during the trial period, the company found that some customers had a significant increase in productivity.
“During a preview period, agency clients experienced a more than 30% increase in employee productivity. Tedious tasks, including compiling notes, were completed automatically, and sharing these notes along with manually generated video highlights eliminated the need to schedule a meeting to discuss the last meeting,” he said in a statement.
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In January, Read presented a text-based summary powered by OpenAI’s GPT model. The featured video feature is an evolution of that. The demo below shows that sometimes highlights cut off the speaker mid-sentence, which gets annoying when trying to hear important points. The company said that it is working on improving this aspect.
Read also noted that in the coming weeks he will be incorporating text summaries into the videos using subtitles.
piles of companies — including Otter and Zoom — are working to provide AI-assisted meeting summaries. While most of them use some sort of long language model, Read’s approach to having a short, TikTok-style video recap might appeal to a person looking to skim through multiple missed meetings.
