About Zoom AI Companion

About Zoom AI Companion

Zoom AI Companion is a generative AI assistant, which enhances productivity and collaboration across the Zoom platform, including Meetings, Phone, Team Chat, Whiteboard, Email, and more.

Access

Employees (StarID@minnstate.edu) and Students (StarID@go.minnstate.edu) can enable Zoom AI Companion via settings in the web.

Enabling Zoom AI Companion

Zoom AI Companion is off by default. To enable Zoom AI Companion for your account:

  1. Login to https://minnstate.zoom.us
  2. Navigate to ‘Settings’ in the left navigation pane
  3. Select ‘AI Companion’
  4. Flip the toggle for each feature you would like enabled for meetings you host

Note: Zoom meeting participants can request the AI Companion to be turned on or off.

Features

Zoom AI Companion enables you to:

  • In-meeting questions: Quickly catch up and get clarity on what you missed during a meeting without interrupting it.
  • Smart recording: Review cloud recordings faster through highlights, smart chapters, summaries, and next steps, and get analytics on key meeting and conversation factors.
  • Meeting summary: Generate a summary and next steps of what was discussed in your meetings and share through email and Team Chat.
  • Virtual background generation: Choose the best backdrop with AI generated virtual backgrounds.
  • Meeting coaching analytics: If enabled, Zoom AI Companion can analyze and provide metrics on key factors in your meeting conversations, such as talk speed, talk-listen ratio, longest spiel (or monologue), filler word usage, and your patience in discussion.

See Zoom AI Companion Support for more details.
NOTE: Zoom AI Companion is disabled for Zoom HIPAA accounts.
NOTE: Students will see a subset of Zoom AI Companion features.

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