ElevenLabs opens ElevenAI meeting notes beta with attendee consent

ElevenLabs opened free early access to ElevenAI, a workplace app for dictation and meeting notes, at its New York summit on November 11. The company says the app transcribes meetings with the agreement of everyone taking part and produces a summary and action items by attendee. Its beta guide names Google Meet as the main compatible meeting app.

ElevenLabs says it designed the app for in-person discussions as well as calls. That lets an office team collect follow-up notes even when nobody joins a video call. The person using it is responsible for making sure others know their speech will be transcribed and agree to it. Registration requires an email address from an organization.

Notices for people who join by phone or arrive late

According to the beta guide, ElevenAI captures and analyzes call audio as it turns speech into text. On Google Meet it displays a notice in the meeting chat and on video. Google lets participants join with audio alone when a Workspace administrator enables phone dial-in. ElevenLabs says the person running the app is responsible for reaching participants who join by phone, turn off video or arrive late.

When video is unavailable, the app may check at the start of a call whether the user has announced the recording and AI note-taking aloud. The guide suggests repeating the notice for late arrivals and telling phone participants aloud. The guide says transcription should stop if anyone objects.

The guide limits use in sensitive meetings, including discussions involving health or financial information, privileged legal conversations and meetings with children. It calls for express permission in the customer's agreement with ElevenLabs for such use. It also says the notices built into the app may not satisfy local recording requirements on their own.

What the app produces after a meeting

ElevenLabs says it delivers a summary and action items for each attendee after the call. It also described an assistance feature that can supply context during the discussion. Dictation is available for turning a person's own speech into text apart from the meeting workflow.

The company says Scribe v3, the speech recognition model it announced a day earlier, powers the notes and dictation. The model announcement described a variant for recorded audio and a separate variant for real-time transcription. Its benchmark figures are for the models under test. The summit announcement gives no measurement of how often ElevenAI assigns an action item to the right person.

A transcript records what was said, while an action list draws conclusions about who is expected to do what. If responsibility changes in the discussion, a generated list can need review alongside the relevant passage. The terms put responsibility for checking the result before use or disclosure on the user. Users who share transcripts are also responsible for their access and retention settings.

An organization email for free early access

ElevenAI is a separate app with its own terms for professional use and organization email sign-up. Google’s built-in meeting notes feature requires a qualifying Google plan and saves the document in the organizer’s Drive. Google Meet administrators can require explicit consent before someone uses built-in notes, recording or transcription. With ElevenAI, the person using the app is responsible for confirming that everyone agrees. They apply an age threshold of 18 or the local age of majority. They also say ElevenAI's terms govern this app for organizations that already have negotiated ElevenLabs enterprise agreements. The terms describe beta access as intended for evaluation.

ElevenLabs says it will not use ElevenAI content to train models. The terms limit retention after the result is delivered to what is needed to provide the service or comply with law. They also allow third-party language model providers to process inputs for the service.

The terms permit time limits and changes to a free user's allowance. The November 11 announcement gave no number of free minutes, date for general release or price after early access.