Fathom adds a bot-less meeting mode in a bid to take on Granola

Online meetings these days are crowded. The abundance of note-taking assistants means that everyone has their ain gathering adjunct articulation calls to transcribe and summarize the conversation, which results successful overcrowded gathering rooms.

Fathom, a startup that makes an AI note-taking tool, is trying to code that overcrowding contented with an update that enables its app to transcribe each calls you be without requiring an AI adjunct to articulation them.

Now, this isn’t thing new. We already person respective desktop apps similar like Granola, Talat, Notion and ChatGPT that tin transcribe calls. Fathom says it is trying to amended connected those tools by enabling its app to grounds videos, too, and its users tin take betwixt assorted signaling modes for transcribing calls.

The institution said it focused connected getting talker diarization close to marque it easier for users to callback context.

“A batch of these bot-less tools don’t bespeak who said what successful their captured transcript,” Fathom’s CEO Richard White told TechCrunch implicit a call. As an example, helium said galore radical look problems with misattribution erstwhile they inquire their gathering note-taker a question astir what they mightiness person said successful a peculiar gathering a fewer months ago.

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White said Fathom has ever wanted to merchandise a bot-less lawsuit for transcribing meetings, and this update was enabled by AI improvements successful the past six months crossed assorted models.

Other updates see the quality to usage AI to query the gathering database, making it much utile for businesses which tin provender it broader context. The institution is besides releasing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server truthful users tin propulsion gathering information and plug it into their AI tools.

This past constituent precocious sparked idiosyncratic complaints for Granola aft it made changes to its on-device database and broke AI workflows that utilized transcript information from that source.

White said Fathom is moving to marque its transcription information much accurate, and springiness users much ways to seizure meetings. The institution besides plans to merchandise an iOS app that tin grounds in-person meetings.