{"id":621537,"date":"2026-08-05T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:03:26","slug":"the-ai-notetaker-has-been-invited-to-all-the-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/621537\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari chats with me about his company\u2019s new Notetaker feature, my eyes keep bouncing to the corner of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/best-laptops\/\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laptop<\/a> screen where <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wispr\u2019s AI tool<\/a> is transcribing everything we say. It\u2019s a verbatim record of our conversation generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> in real time, even down to my \u201cmm-hmm\u201d sounds while I listen to Kothari explaining why the startup, which is known for voice dictation, is dropping something new.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThis is the year of meeting recorders and notetakers,\u201d says Kothari. And it\u2019s hard to argue with that, at least in Silicon Valley. Most tech investors and other experts I\u2019ve chatted with this year now assume whenever they meet up with someone to talk business that the conversation is going to be recorded or transcribed by AI, sometimes without explicit consent. The current option du jour for meeting records is <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.granola.ai\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.granola.ai\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.granola.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Granola AI<\/a>, with plenty of other options, like <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/otter.ai\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otter AI<\/a>, also available to users. So, the timing of Wispr\u2019s expansion from a dictation tool into a meeting resource makes sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/wisprflow.ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wispr\u2019s Notetaker<\/a> connects to your calendar and can listen along during any meeting. After the conversation is over, Wispr uses generative AI to summarize the conversation and connect it to a chatbot-style tool for parsing its context with follow-up questions. The tool is launching first on Mac laptops, with a Windows expansion expected down the line. If you enable <strong>Privacy Mode<\/strong> for your account, then the data from your dictations will not be used by Wispr for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/frontier-labs-arent-the-only-ones-pursuing-self-improving-ai\/\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI model training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In my initial test using Notetaker during a conversation with the CEO, the live transcription appeared accurate as it flashed across the screen, and I didn\u2019t spot any obvious errors in its AI summary generated after our meeting. The \u201cask anything\u201d tool felt like the feature\u2019s best aspect. I had a quote in mind that I wanted to pull out, but didn\u2019t remember when Kothari said it during our chat. So, I typed in \u201cyear of ai notetakers quote,\u201d and the Notetaker tool found the moment that I remembered. When I checked it against my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/gallery\/best-audio-interfaces\/\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">audio recording<\/a> for accuracy, the AI-transcribed quote matched the audio file.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Wispr meeting summary.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/press_1270x760-brief.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Wispr meeting summary.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Wispr<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Users can fiddle with the fine details of Wispr\u2019s Notetaker in the Mac app\u2019s settings. One of the most notable aspects available here is the ability to extend the maximum meetings recording length to a whopping six hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Wispr Flow CEO Tanay Kothari chats with me about his company\u2019s new Notetaker feature, my eyes keep&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,1307,289,290,18,19,17,3796,864,82,14336],"class_list":["post-621537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-productivity","tag-software","tag-technology","tag-voice-recognition"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117042336250125154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}