Google expands Meet’s note-taking feature to in-person meetings and cross-platform use

Google has extended its ‘Take notes for me’ feature, powered by Gemini, to cover face-to-face meetings and external platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, signalling a broader push for AI-assisted transcription across its services.

Google has broadened Meet’s “Take notes for me” function so it is no longer limited to online calls inside its own platform. The tool can now be used in face-to-face meetings, extending Gemini’s automatic note-taking into a setting where competitors such as Granola and Wispr Flow’s Notetaker have also been pushing AI-assisted transcription. According to MacMagazine, the change was announced on Thursday and marks a wider role for Meet beyond video conferencing.

The feature transcribes spoken discussion, then turns it into a structured summary saved to a Google Docs file. It also produces an email recap with the main topics covered and the meeting’s action items. Google says the notes can be accessed from both the Meet website and the app, while the support documentation adds that late arrivals can see a “Summary so far” during the meeting and that the final recap is sent to the organiser afterwards.

Google’s own blog says the system is powered by Gemini and can be switched on during a call from the pencil icon in the Meet window. It supports meetings conducted in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, and it is limited to eligible Google Workspace editions or Google AI subscriptions. The company says access is available to AI Pro and Ultra users, alongside business and enterprise customers on qualifying plans.

Distribution of the expanded feature started on the web on Friday, MacMagazine reported, with the iOS app set to follow on 31 August. In a separate note from Google’s Cloud Next 2026 event, 9to5Google said the same note-taking capability was also being positioned for in-person meetings and, in some cases, meetings hosted on other platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, underscoring how Google is trying to make Meet’s AI tools more broadly useful outside its own ecosystem.