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I wonder if I can hire an intern or something to just transcribe all conference calls? Actually having a record of what was said would be lovely - too often audio is just too ephemeral and goes poof, with nobody remembering what was agreed upon.

It's got to be worth $10-15/hour in wasted time and recapping.

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I think a note taker taking live notes that everyone can see, and perhaps edit, is a great way to record meetings. As a bonus, you even have something tangible to show the time you put in!

I tend to live tweet stuff into slack, makes it useful to dump into other tools or get input from others who arent there, eliminates a lot of status update / meeting recaps

I'm working on this at the moment, in a way that also uses the edited transcripts to train our ASR system to perform better for later sessions. The difficult part is the speaker diarization, however. Multiple people talking at once requires some intricate signal processing to sort out.

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