Zoom AI Companion

Overview

Zoom AI Companion is a meeting assistant capable of recording, transcribing, and summarizing a zoom meeting, as well as generating texts based off the transcript and creating content for Zoom Whiteboards. 

Zoom AI Companion does not use any meeting content to train its own or any other third-party AI models. 

Enable AI Companion in Zoom settings

Starting in the Zoom Workplace App, 

  1. Go to your settings  
  2. Click “view more settings”  
  3. It will take you to the web domain, login via uidaho.zoom.us 
  4. Go to settings again 
  5. Click “AI Companion” 
  6. Make sure that “Allow users to ask AI Companion questions about the meeting” is turned on. 

Finding settings in Zoom Workplace application, steps 1 and 2Image displaying steps 3-6 of activating AI companion for Zoom

Activate AI Companion in meetings

To start AI Companion in any zoom meeting, just press the AI Companion button in the panel at the bottom of the screen. 

Button to turn on AI companion highlighted in red rectangle.

When AI Companion is activated, the little star symbol for it will appear in the upper left corner of the meeting screen. If at any point the host or co-host wants to turn off AI Companion, they can click on this star and click on the

AI Companion star that indicates it is activated is highlighted in red circle.

Keep in mind, only the host or co-host of a meeting can activate Zoom AI Companion.

Meeting transcript and summary

After the meeting has ended, Zoom AI Companion will send a summary of the entire meeting to host in their email, which they can edit and share if they so choose. Summaries of all meetings you have hosted and summaries that have been shared with you can also be found in the web version of Zoom.

Zoom Summaries found on further down in uidaho.zoom.us

Meeting transcripts can be accessed by the host any time during the meeting by clicking "more" at the bottom of the screen and then selecting "transcript." The host can download the meeting the transcript of the meeting and edit it if there are any obvious mistakes.

Transcipt of meeting can be found through "more" menu

Chat with AI Companion about the meeting

AI Companion can provide information related to the current Zoom meeting based on the transcript. Meeting participants can use the suggested prompts as shown below or they can type their own questions about the meeting.

Prompts suggested by AI Companion to ask about the meeting

AI Companion can also tailor its answer to the language of a question. The image shown below gives examples of this feature. 

Image of Zoom AI Companion summaries done in multiple languages

Before ending the meeting, AI Companion can also be used to generate ideas for assignments or essay questions based off what was discussed in the meeting.

AI Companion in Zoom Whiteboards

  1. Initiate AI Companion on a Whiteboard by clicking on the star symbol
  2. Type in your promt
  3. Select the output format
  4. Press send for it to generate

Image showing step by step process of how to generate content for Zoon Whiteboards with AI Companion

Keep in mind about AI Companion

  • AI can make mistakes. Always double-check the content first. ​ 
  • If several meeting participants are connected through one computer in a conference room, AI Companion will not differentiate between several participants in the room. ​ 
  • Don’t discuss any sensitive information (e.g., SSN) when the AI Companion is on.​ 
  • Check the recording and transcription before sharing.​ 
  • New features appear regularly