RE using AI minutes

The topic of AI came up in F2F

to keep from using up too much time there here are some thoughts on ideas


1)  A good way to handle foreign language speaker not being as well recognized
 - use AI to transcribe
 - have “backup” scribe that only steps in when recognizer faile 

2) for Off minute comments you can turn off the mike to the AI transcriber off  (see note below - where we need a special AI tool not just the one in zoom - for a number of reasons.

3)  If we use AI summaries -we NEED to implement it in a fashion that provides a method for “in meeting” instant correction of mistakes.  In fact we need that for the human done minutes which also often misunderstand and sometimes scribe exactly the opposite of what the speaker said


4) Remember the distinction between transcript and minutes
AI can do both but tends to do the summaries only after a meeting.  This is too late for someone to notice that the summary is not complete - is inaccurate - misinterpreted - or is opposite of what was said
Suggestion
Need a special tool to change the transcript into summaries on a per commenter basis - like a scribe does
that summarization would go into the IRC
BETTER though would be for these summarizations (minutes) to appear in a separate document that is group correctable so that the commenter can correct the AI summary. per #3 above

5) Speaker ID 
This is often cited as an AI shortcoming.  But it is just as much a problem in human minutes.   
our best solution to this for both is using queue  and having chairs announce each new speaker (as they do)
Sometimes things get into a back and forth between two people 
Best solution is for each person to say their name before the speak each time
ALSO 
If we have a human  “shadow scriber” that is just monitoring the AI - they could add speaker names where the AI does not.

6) for hybrid meetings - I  suggest we purchase more microphones so there is no-one 


IF WE WERE TO USE AI  — given all the above and the comments I  think we should build (or find) one that does what we need.
 When you think about it - it is much more complicated than it first appears  to replace or even augment the human scribe.   But it would be wonderful for the scribes once you do.

Gregg