We’ve all been there. Sitting in a meeting that drags on for ages. Nowadays with the power of teleconference facilities such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, people can be there without being there. While some corporates will insist on being able to see their staff members, others make it possible for you to catch up on some knitting while you listen in. While pants also appear to have become optional, one thing hasn’t changed… how do you accurately capture meeting minutes.
It’s enough of an effort to gather, find a mutually convenient time to face one another and then talk in a constructive fashion without the conversation going in circles. While a 30 minute meeting can turn into 3 hours, one of the bigger considerations is the record-keeping. It’s easy enough to entrust someone else to get around to composing the minutes but unless this person is actively involved in the business of the meeting, their lack of experience may lead to less accurate reporting as specific items are skipped over.
That’s why Dragon is such a powerful tool for productivity. Not only are you able to capture the minutes in a fuller sense, whoever’s transcribing them doesn’t have to resist the urge to throw their laptop out the window. It can be a laborious process but using Dragon it becomes so much easier.
We’re not quite at the point where you can simply record the meeting and then have Dragon automatically transcribe everything. The processing power required to do this would be quite immense and would require each member to have a reasonable voice profile and wear a headset for the best clarity of recording. It’s much simpler than that, allowing meetings to run as usual, uninhibited by technology besides having a worthy recording device to capture the audio.
Using a combination of human interpretation and Dragon’s speech-to-text ability, companies are able to transcribe minutes much faster, meaning that these notes are conveyed quicker and actionable items are effected more immediately. Contact us to find out how we can help integrate Dragon into your meeting process, whether it’s in the form of one-on-one interviews or much bigger board room settings.