The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped working patterns around the world, with remote work rapidly shifting from being an option for a few companies to the norm for many organizations. According to a McKinsey survey, in 2020, up to 62% of companies worldwide fully or partially employed remote work during the peak of the pandemic, and the proportion of remote employees has increased more than threefold since before the pandemic. To address challenges such as lockdowns and social distancing, companies are accelerating the introduction of digital tools such as video conferencing, cloud-based collaboration platforms, and remote security solutions that enable employees to get work done efficiently from home or anywhere. This wave of digitalization is not only bringing flexibility, but also redefining work-life balance, hybrid work patterns will continue to exist, and meetings will change dramatically from physical meetings to online meetings, which will not only reduce commuting time, but also make employees more productive. Google Workspace’s AI collaboration capabilities provide innovative solutions to overcome and address the challenges of hybrid work.
Generative AI tools can streamline the meeting process and make it easier to hold productive, important meetings. Save a lot of time and improve productivity with the advent of new collaboration tools. Here are five ways Google Meet Gemini can make work easier and faster.
1. Let AI take the notes
Have you ever been so involved in a discussion that you forgot to take notes? Or did you miss important meeting information because of the volume of information? Gemini’s “Take Notes for Me” feature helps you solve this problem! Gemini becomes the designated note-taker for meetings and no longer worries about being late for meetings or losing important information, Gemini can quickly write summaries of meetings and provide high-quality minutes. Whether you’re using Gemini-generated meeting notes to recall meeting highlights, communicate with colleagues, or report back to your team, quality notes can help keep everyone on the same page.
Tips by Microfusion：f you have a meeting for the same project, you can put all the meeting notes into the same Google Docs, so you can avoid missing meeting points and see the progress of the project for each meeting.
2. Get everyone involved in the conversation with instant translation
For international meetings, Gemini in Google Meet can create instant captions and translate them instantly. This function allows colleagues and partners in different countries to communicate in the language they are familiar with, and is no longer limited to a certain language. Gemini in Google Meet currently supports translation in more than 60 languages and 4,000 language pairs.
3. Have fun in your meeting!
To make the meeting both productive and fun, Google Meet offers virtual backgrounds, which you can upload your own, or ask Gemini in Meet to create a unique AI-generated background, for example, for a virtual retirement send-off (with a Hawaiian theme in mind).
AI-generated background in Meet
Google Meet has built-in AI capabilities to automate and customize your video content so you look your best, not only overcoming the lack of light or poor picture quality that is common in remote work environments.
- Portrait Retouching: Allows you to enhance your appearance with subtle skin tone smoothing, dark circles brightening and eye whitening before joining the meeting.
- Studio Look： Use AI to improve video quality on low-quality network cameras.
- Studio Lighting: Simulate studio-quality lighting with AI, allowing you to adjust lighting position, brightness, and color.
- Auto-view: Meet can also automatically view your video before joining the meeting, so that all participants can clearly see you.
Studio appearance and studio lighting improve video quality in meetings
4. Eliminate guesswork about how good it looks and sounds
Have you ever been busy with meetings outside the office and couldn’t find a quiet place to meet? Gemini in Meet can help you look and sound your best. In addition to AI tools that can automatically frame the scene and adjust the light source, Gemini can also eliminate background noise and echoes, and automatically improve the poor audio quality of traditional Bluetooth headsets and dial-in participant phones. The AI in Meet also adjusts video quality to prioritize sound in the event of connectivity issues, helping to make it easier to hear everyone when someone’s WiFi signal is weak.
5. Turn any room into a team meeting room
Five people in the office on the same day, but no conference room available? Most of us can relate to these mixed work moments. With adaptive audio in Meet, your team can join meetings using multiple laptops in close proximity without awkward echoes and audio feedback, eliminating the need to huddle around a single laptop.
Adaptive audio syncs laptop microphones and speakers, so multiple laptops can join meetings without the need for meeting equipment or a dedicated room
With Gemini for Google Workspace, companies can dramatically improve the efficiency and interaction of meetings and work. For example, in Google Meet, attendees can enjoy the best audio and video quality, no manual note-taking, and all meeting notes are automatically generated. In addition, cross-device and multilingual support ensures that every member is involved, which not only enhances teamwork but also increases flexibility. Users can also choose virtual backgrounds to make meetings more interesting. Gemini also plays a powerful role in Gmail and Google Docs, quickly analyzing meeting notes to generate professional emails or summaries of work, helping teams reduce extra workload and increase overall productivity. This AI-driven collaboration model fully demonstrates the infinite possibilities of the future of work.
This article has been translated and adapted from the official blog of Google Workspace. Whether you know the powerful collaboration capabilities of Google Workspace, or want to experience a new AI working style, you can contact Microfusion for any needs. As an elite Google Cloud partner, Microfusion brings deep expertise to help companies implement Google Workspace and address the challenges of a hybrid work environment. Whether you want to improve collaboration efficiency or seize AI-driven business opportunities, Great Ting Technology can provide professional consulting services and technical support. Stay tuned for our event information to explore more practical scenarios for AI work types! If you are interested in multiple applications for Google Workspace, please pay close attention to our latest news and look forward to seeing you at the event!
