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Summaries for attendees

Summaries turns each session's captions into a short catch-up that attendees read on their phones, in the language they read. Turn it on for the rooms you choose, for $9.00 per captioned hour, however you pay.

How it works

  1. The room speaks. Captions roll in.

  2. Every few minutes, a fresh summary.

  3. Every phone reads it in its own language.

Walked in late? One tap.

Finished parts wait under Earlier today, beside the captions.

Pick how much it says

Setup and cost

  • On for a meeting, a room or a session. In Settings, under Summaries. Your schedule's Summary column turns single sessions off.

  • $9.00 per captioned hour, however you pay. It is a paid add-on, so a free account cannot turn it on.

  • Hide any summary. From the meeting's Summaries tab, an operator can hide any finished summary, and Show again puts it back.

The fine print
  • A running summary is written in the language being spoken and in the languages people in that room are reading at the time, up to six of them. A reader whose language it has not reached yet is told there is no summary in their language yet, and is never shown one in a language they did not choose.
  • When that part of the session is finished, the final summary is written in every language the meeting offers, up to twelve. A meeting can offer up to 24 reading languages, so in a meeting that offers more than twelve, the rest show no summary.
  • A summary is marked Final once that part of the session is finished, even while the room is still live.
  • A new depth is used by the next summary that starts. The summary being written now keeps the depth it began with.
  • Earlier today is always there. Turn on Attendees can read earlier sessions in Settings and Earlier sessions reaches back through the whole meeting.
  • Breaks and lunches on your schedule are summarized too, unless you switch them off.
  • Hiding a summary reaches phones within a minute and never touches the captions or the transcript.
  • Every summary carries a note that it was written automatically from the captions and can get things wrong. It helps people catch up; it is not your minutes.
With only a phone Turning Summaries on, hiding one and showing it again all work from a phone, so you can fix a mistake the moment somebody points it out.

What to do next

See how Summaries fits into the rest of your bill in What counts as a captioned hour.