Collaborate: with Otter & Zoom

Today's Concept: "Collaborate: with Otter & Zoom"

Ok, you're going to do a meeting with your team.

But, you don't love taking notes.

And, you're in management now. So, you need to pay attention to the visual information on the call (you know, the facial expressions of your team, the chat, etc).

And it's hard to keep track of that when you're looking down at your own notes. You need to focus.

You want to delegate.

But, you need a failsafe system to know the meeting is documented and summarized, and that you, yourself, understand all of the key takeaways and to-do items.

What do you do with AI to make this work?

Line up your Zoom.com call like you always do. Invite Otter to the meeting as a member of your Team.

Use Otter.ai for voice recognition, transcription, and take-aways. Then bring in a team member for a "human in the loop" to check Otter's work.

Otter will:

1. Listen
2. Take Notes
3. Summarize the Notes
4. List the Take-aways
5. Send everyone a Transcript

From the Otter.ai Mission Statement:

"Using artificial intelligence, Otter.ai makes information from voice conversations instantly accessible and actionable by generating real-time meeting notes and audio that is secure, shareable, and searchable."

Person of The Day

Sam Liang, Ph.D.

Skip ahead to the Quotes below for insights to Sam and his thinking.

Quote/s of The Day

On Sam's Background and Education, and first job at Google:

• “I was born in Beijing, China. I grew up there, studied computer science in college. Then I came to America in 1991, so it's more than 30, 32 years ago. Later I did my PhD at Stanford. After that, I worked for a few high tech companies. I joined Google in 2006 where I led the Google Map location platform, which powered the Google Mobile Map app, which is one of the most popular apps in the world”.

On The "Pain Point" that he wanted to resolve with his new company, Otter:

• “One is that, when building a startup, I have to talk to a lot of people. I have a lot of meetings. I found that it's hard for me to remember so much information. It's hard to remember my action items, and it is hard to share information with our team. I talk to a lot of Venture Capitalists, and I talk to a lot of customers. And we need to do recruiting to build the team. So I have a tons of conversations. So there's a big pain point for me and our team”.

On Platforms where Otter works:

• “We have transcribed more than a billion meetings already, and we are probably one of the top three apps in the US. We work with the Zoom platform, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, so we are platform agnostic. Our mobile app is also popular on Apple App Store and Android, so that if you meet someone in person, you can use Otter.ai as well. So everything is saved in one place, no matter where your meeting happens”.

All quotes are sourced from: The Upside Newsletter. Go there to learn more.

Real World

Yesterday, in collaboration with my partner in Ohio, I did my first ever Otter with Zoom meeting.

So, I'm in California. By the Ocean.

My project partner is in Ohio. By the Woods.

We met in Zoom.

For two hours. Working intensely on a project. We are both big talkers.

I took no notes.

I had my mobile phone on a stand, by my laptop and my large monitor. The phone kept a running a real-time Otter Transcription in front of me. My iPhone 13 mini amazed me more than my BenQ 24" monitor. It was alive with word and image!

The Transcription, showing up one my iPhone, recorded Every Screen Share we did in the Two Hour call.

Pages we shared and worked on.

Images and Illustrations we worked on.

In perfect sync with the recording of our voices.

Searchable by topic and timestamp. I can walk away with it. No workstation necessary.

I'm never going back to how it was before. I'm hooked.

Tomorrow's Concept: Rapid Research with Perplexity

Tomorrow we are talking about how and why Perplexity is my favorite ai-copilot for rapid research and development.

See you tomorrow!

Matt