AI meeting notes and audio summarization tool

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Bhavya shah

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Mar 10, 2026, 1:22:55 AMMar 10
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I am looking for a tool that can listen to audio live – Zoom, Google Meet, offline conversation, and anything that my mic captures – and generate meeting transcripts and summaries from it. I’d prefer something free, accessible, and quick to set up. I just tried Krisp but its Desktop app doesn’t seem accessible. I’d greatly appreciate your suggestions and recommendations.

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Bhavya Shah | M.S. AI & B.S. Math/CS, Stanford University

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Andrew Downie

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Mar 10, 2026, 8:03:39 PMMar 10
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If you trust AI summaries you are a braver person than me.  I suspect there are neater solutions than the following.
If you turn on captions in Zoom and record the session you will get a transcript.  You could drop into Word and use Copilot to summarise.
The free Openveno plugin for Audacity will transcribe audio.  It is very accurate but formatting may not be to taste (I wrote a AutoHotKey script to suit my purposes.

Andrew


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"Roberto Pérez de Paz."

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Mar 10, 2026, 10:34:26 PMMar 10
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I think I would try something like granola.ai. It is probably expensive. Another possibility would be to obtain the audio files and use something like the Whisper app, or Google's Gemini if you pay for AI pro and the content is not confidential. If you want a completely free solution, I wrote an iOS shortcut that transcribes audio files and uses Apple Intelligence to generate meeting notes. No matter which solution you end up using, if the audio content is critical you may want to listen to the original audio because AI generated summaries tend to be inaccurate. It can omit important details or make things up.

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darrell....@gmail.com

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Mar 11, 2026, 12:17:01 AMMar 11
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Hi Roberto, Andrew and group,

 

I actually have great success creating screen recordings demonstrating accessibility bugs using Zoom with screen sharing enabled, running them through Gemini asking for a summary and a bug report in agile format including a single-line subject, description, steps to reproduce, actual results and expected results. The result I typically get is at least 90 percent of the way done. After just a little cleanup, I am ready to post a high-quality bug report with screen recording in a much shorter time than doing each of those tasks separately without AI.

 

As mentioned by others already, though, the key is trust but verify. Hallucinations do happen, and they can sometimes be quite sneaky.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

Darrell Hilliker, NU7I, CPWA, Salesforce Certified User Experience Designer

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I do that too, not only with videos but screenshots as well, which also helps in adding visual references to the bug reports, for example in the case of controls that are represented by an icon only, or when something happens where I  want to relate to the visual experience. I've also had success having Gemini flag issues with my videos, for example, moments when e-mail addresses or other potentially personal information may be exposed visually.
By the way, talking about screenshots, one add-on that I use all the time is https://github.com/javidominguez/screenshots. It makes the process of taking screenshots with NVDA very efficient. Especially now that we have AI based tools to analyze them and tag them, I take screenshots all the time, probably similarly to the way many visual users do it.

I hope we're not going too off topic with this thread.

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Steve Nutt

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Mar 11, 2026, 10:57:53 AMMar 11
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Hi,

https://www.plaud.ai.

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Steve Nutt

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Mar 11, 2026, 10:59:36 AMMar 11
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Plaud is actually better than Zoom for AI summarising. And it is not tied to Zoom only.

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Sarah Alawami

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Mar 11, 2026, 12:08:31 PMMar 11
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I trust  the AI summaries in zoom as they are about 99 percent correct. I know as I do verify every single time and I think it only messed up once. they are also well formatted, better than any other summary tool I've used. I'm actually quite impressed.

On 3/10/2026 5:03 PM, Andrew Downie wrote: You get the summary in the form of an email and what ever your client uses to render the experience might be worth a try.

Happy wednesday all.

Sarah Alawami

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Mar 11, 2026, 12:10:25 PMMar 11
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I use the windows alt print screen method and upload my screenshots to gpt and have it summaries in grate detail especially if I'm submitting bugs. I've already submitted some bug reports which hopefully should help developers. Your method works as well. tool to task and all.

take care and have a happy Wednesday.

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