AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is launching a recent AI meeting assistant called OtterPilot, the corporate announced on Tuesday. OtterPilot automates meetings and is designed to assist professionals save time and increase meeting productivity. The brand new features will roll out to users on all plans over the approaching days, the corporate says.

After each meeting, OtterPilot will routinely send an AI-generated summary of key meeting topics to those invited to the meeting or on to an Otter group. Automated summaries are shared via email, with hyperlinks to key moments. Otter launched an Automated Outline beta feature last 12 months for Business users, but the brand new Automated Summary feature announced today is the results of a wholly recent AI summary model and includes improved summarization. The Automated Summary can be available to all users.

The brand new meeting assistant may also routinely capture images of slides shared during virtual meetings. It routinely captures a slide presentation and inserts it into the meeting notes. Otter notes that this enables professionals to simply seek for and recall necessary slides together with the transcript to recollect what was shared.

OtterPilot also uses AI to put in writing meeting notes in real time and share them with everyone in order that they can collaborate during meetings. During meetings, attendees can view the live transcript, add comments, highlight key points and likewise assign motion items. Otter can routinely share the Otter notes with those invited to the meeting or to a selected group.

Image Credits: Otter.ai

It’s price noting that Otter Assistant, the corporate’s bot that may routinely join meetings in your calendar and transcribe the conversations, will now grow to be an element of OtterPilot.

The corporate says OtterPilot makes it so not everyone on a team must attend every meeting, and that those that do can engage without being distracted by having to take notes. OtterPilot also goals to reinforce the meetings you do attend by saving you time in the course of the meeting and afterwards. 

“AI helps us in every aspect of our life. Every single day once I drive to work, I’m helped and inspired by advancements in Tesla’s Autopilot system,” said Otter.ai CEO and co-founder Sam Liang in an announcement. “Similarly, we’ve seen the large improvements in Otter’s AI capabilities, and now our OtterPilot guarantees to eliminate note-taking, save time, and improve meeting productivity for our user’s next billion meetings.”

The launch comes as Otter has reached the milestone of transcribing over 1 billion meetings. Back in 2021, the corporate said it had transcribed over 100 million meetings.

Provided that AI has grow to be an increasingly trending topic over the past few months, especially attributable to the launch of ChatGPT, it’s no surprise that Otter.ai has introduced a recent AI-powered meeting assistant to enrich its transcription service.