ECNETNews reports that Zoom has launched Zoom Docs, an innovative AI-driven collaborative documentation solution now integrated into Zoom Workplace. Designed to enhance productivity and improve teamwork, Zoom Docs utilizes the Zoom AI Companion to convert content from Zoom Meetings into actionable documents.
Key Features and Benefits
Zoom Docs seeks to resolve prevalent challenges in the modern workforce, including inefficiencies from repetitive tasks and information overload. The AI Companion seamlessly transforms meeting outcomes into digestible documents, elevating productivity and catering to diverse team needs. Key features include:
- Meeting Collaboration: Streamlines collaboration by turning meeting input into comprehensive documents, centralizing summaries, and enabling co-editing within meetings.
- Business Documents: Facilitates the creation, revision, summarization, and translation of content, supporting global teams in crafting business proposals or reports.
- Project Planning: Offers templates for project briefs and tracking, applicable for product launches, marketing campaigns, and event management, consolidating essential materials and enhancing visibility.
- Information Hub: Assists in building a knowledge base, onboarding new team members, and goal tracking, creating a consolidated wiki for easy access to vital information.
AI-Powered Enhancements
Zoom Docs employs AI technology to streamline tasks and aggregate information for maximum efficiency. Notable AI capabilities include:
- Transforming AI Companion meeting summaries into editable documents, eliminating the need for manual note-taking.
- Generating new content based on meeting transcripts, utilizing user-defined commands for content creation and revisions.
- Enhancing content through revisions, summarizations, style adjustments, grammar checks, and translations in multiple languages.
Improving Meeting Effectiveness
Zoom Docs fosters collaboration throughout the meeting lifecycle, enabling users to maintain alignment and achieve superior outcomes. Users can initiate and schedule meetings from a Zoom Doc, share and edit documents during sessions, and create editable files containing relevant meeting data. The platform also supports streamlined permission sharing and document distribution across Zoom Workplace.
Customization and Integration
Zoom Docs empowers users to tailor documents to specific needs, ensuring fluid collaboration and organized information management. Users can personalize docs utilizing content blocks for text, tables, images, charts, and more, integrate content from various sources, and stay organized using features like starred docs and quick filtering.
Availability
Zoom Docs with AI Companion is available with all paid Zoom Workplace plans. Basic (free) users can create up to 10 shared documents and unlimited personal documents, but access to the AI Companion requires an upgrade. Zoom Docs can be accessed today through the Zoom Workplace app, version 6.1.6 or later, either via the Docs web homepage or the Zoom Web App.
