What happens when your AI notetaker only works in one of the three meeting tools you use every week? That's been the limitation with Gemini's meeting notes feature until now. Google has expanded its AI notetaker beyond Google Meet - it now generates summaries and transcripts for in-person meetings, Zoom calls, and Microsoft Teams meetings.
The in-person meeting support is the more interesting piece. Instead of processing audio from a video call, Gemini is now designed to listen to a room through a phone or tablet. That capability had been in alpha testing and was Android-only. Rolling it out broadly means Google is betting people will place their phones on a conference table specifically to capture AI notes - a different behavior pattern than clicking "record" in a video call.
The Zoom and Teams compatibility matters more for day-to-day use. Most organizations run mixed tool environments - internal meetings on Google Meet, external calls on whatever the client prefers. Being locked to Meet-only notes has been a real gap in Gemini's practical value for Workspace users who don't control which platform a meeting happens on.
Dedicated transcription tools like AssemblyAI have built their entire product around this use case: accurate audio-to-text with speaker detection, topic tagging, and summary generation tuned for meetings. Gemini entering with native calendar and Workspace integration is real competition, but the advantage those standalone tools have is depth - granular controls, custom vocabulary, and accuracy tuned for technical or domain-specific conversations.
Google hasn't published accuracy benchmarks for in-person or cross-platform transcription. Background noise, multiple simultaneous speakers, and varied accents all degrade transcription quality in ways that don't show up in clean demo conditions. How well it performs in a real conference room with six people talking over each other is the actual test.