Summary
Zoom AI Companion is a generative AI assistant designed to enhance productivity and collaboration across the Zoom platform, including Meetings, Phone, Team Chat, Whiteboard, Email, and more. It is off by default and can be enabled via the Zoom settings. Key features include in-meeting questions, smart recording, meeting summaries, AI-generated virtual backgrounds, and meeting coaching analytics. Users are advised to review AI-generated content for accuracy.
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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:
- Login to https://minnstate.zoom.us
- Navigate to ‘Settings’ in the left navigation pane
- Select ‘AI Companion’
- 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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