Google Meet's Gemini AI notetaker now transcribes in-person meetings and calls on Zoom, Teams

Google's Gemini AI meeting notetaker has expanded beyond Google Meet to support in-person meetings, Zoom calls, and Microsoft Teams meetings, according to Google's updated support documentation.

What's new

The feature was previously limited to alpha users on Android for in-person meetings. It's now available on both mobile and desktop across multiple meeting contexts.

Users can access the notetaker from the Google Meet home screen by selecting "take notes for me" to start recording, regardless of whether the meeting is in-person or on a competing platform. The AI generates summaries and action items in a Google Doc, which automatically appears in Google Drive for the user who initiated the recording.

How it works

According to Google's support page, the feature works for impromptu meetings — users "don't need to be in a meeting room" or in a previously-scheduled meeting to activate it. If a remote participant needs to join an in-person meeting being recorded, Google says the meeting can transition to a normal video call.

The expansion puts Google's AI notetaker in direct competition with existing cross-platform solutions while leveraging its Gemini AI capabilities. Users can now capture meeting content regardless of their organization's primary video conferencing platform.

What this means

Google is positioning Gemini as a universal meeting assistant rather than a Google Meet-exclusive feature. This platform-agnostic approach acknowledges that most organizations use multiple video conferencing tools and need AI assistance across all of them. The in-person meeting support is particularly notable, as it extends AI notetaking beyond the digital meeting space where competitors like Otter.ai and Microsoft's Copilot primarily operate. Whether this drives Google Workspace adoption or simply makes Gemini more valuable to existing users remains to be seen.