Google Meet can now take notes at in-person meetings
Gemini-powered notes now cover physical meetings, not just video calls
Google Meet's AI notetaking tool is stepping away from the screen. The "Take notes for me" feature, previously limited to virtual calls, now works for face-to-face conversations too, letting users set their phone on a table and let Gemini handle the transcript.
The launch, as confirmed via the Google Workspace blog, sees the tool available on Android, web, and iOS platforms. On the mobile app, one just has to tap on a new “Take notes” option, which is located alongside “New call", like how one uses a small recorder.
On the web interface, the process entails selecting a call and clicking on “Take notes for me” and “Start taking notes". Notes sessions can be paused and resumed at any time, and Google advises using the feature for calls lasting at least 15 minutes.
Once a session wraps, Meet generates a structured Google Doc containing topic summaries, key decisions, action items, and a full transcript. The file lands automatically in a dedicated "Google Meet" folder in Drive, with a link sent by email.
This mirrors the structure Google already uses for notes generated during virtual calls, giving in-person sessions the same documentation as scheduled video meetings.
Not everyone has access to the feature yet. The consumer must have either Google AI Pro or AI Ultra, whereas the Workspace user must have either Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Frontline Plus, or Google AI Pro for Education.
The current number of languages that it supports is eight, which include English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, but only one at a time per session.
Privacy options allow users to control capture and prevent their private conversation from being recorded, as well as the host controlling which users can invoke it.
Access was first granted to Android users, followed by the web version, with the iOS version coming soon in the month of August. With more users getting access, it directly means Google Meet will be competing against transcription services that have made business out of solving the same problem.
