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Best 3 AI Solutions for Conducting Research and Development Meetings

Have you ever found yourself drowning in a sea of meeting minutes, struggling to recall that one game-changing idea amidst the cacophony of conversation? In the fast-paced world of Research and Development (R&D), where innovation is king and time is the currency, the traditional approach to meetings can often feel like trying to capture lightning in a bottle. Enter the transformative power of AI. This blog post is your compass to navigating the electrifying realm of AI tools designed to turbocharge your R&D meetings. By recording and summarizing discussions, pinpointing action items, and crystallizing decisions and learnings, AI is not just a silent attendee but a dynamic catalyst for efficiency and creativity. So, prepare to elevate your team's collaboration to new heights as we unveil the top three AI solutions that promise to revolutionize the way you conduct R&D meetings, ensuring that no brilliant idea or critical detail is ever lost in the void again.

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Tool Overview

Features
jamie
Fireflies.ai
Avoma
Automated Meeting summary
Bot-free
Meeting platforms
All (native without integration)
Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams + 6 more
Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams + 5 more
Automatic topic based notes
Personal highlights
Languages
More than 15 languages
More than 15 languages
English
Action items
In person conversations
Server location
EU
USA
USA
Free plan
Free plan
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Now that you have a brought overview of the main features of the three AI tools, let's dive a little deeper into what those tools have to offer and why they might be the right tool for you to use.

The 3 Best Tools

jamie

jamie is an AI meeting assistant that creates outstanding meeting minutes or notes in your language. It will run as a native app on your device without having to join your meetings as a virtual meeting bot. jamie will not only provide you with a transcript of the meeting but also delivers a topic based summary and action items such as tasks and decisions. But thats not all. jamie does not only take care of your notes, you can also ask jamie anything about your past meetings in a ChatGPT like experience.


Best Features

  • Automatically detect the language of the meeting and create notes in more than 15 languages
  • Because jamie runs natively on macOS and Windows, it is integrated into your menu bar. Therefore, it works across any meeting software, even offline in a meeting room
  • No integrations or invites to calendars are required. This allows a seamless workflow without login or registration process
  • Ask jamie anything: No one wants to go through all those meeting notes later manually. This is why in jamie you can simply ask anything about your meetings and jamie will give you the answer

Pros

  • Concise and actionable summaries and action items instead of long transcripts or high level notes
  • Automatic speaker recognition eliminates the need for manual editing
  • You can train jamie on company specific acronyms or product names, creating better outcomes every day. The same goes for the automatic speaker recognition of jamie

Cons

  • If you want to analyze video recordings of your calls, note that jamie does not provide this feature to maintain a certain level of privacy during meetings.

Pricing

  • Standard plan: $25/month/user
  • Pro plan: $49/month/user
  • Executive plan: $105/month/user

Fireflies.ai

Fireflies.ai assists teams in transcribing, summarizing, searching, and analyzing voice conversations. It works across various video-conferencing apps and can automatically record and transcribe meetings​.


Best Features

  • Automatic recording using virtual meeting bot and transcription across various video-conferencing apps and audio files​​
  • AI-powered search for quick review and extraction of meeting highlights and key metrics​​
  • Collaboration features allowing comments, pins, and reactions on meeting conversations​​

Pros

  • Post-meeting recaps that highlight action items and critical points for efficient follow-ups
  • Comprehensive transcription capabilities across multiple languages
  • Advanced features for analytics and collaboration

Cons

  • It does still require a virtual meeting bot to join the call
  • It can not detect the language automatically

Pricing

  • Free: $0, limited transcription credits, 800 mins of storage/seat
  • Pro: $18/seat/month, unlimited transcription credits, 8,000 mins of storage/seat
  • Business: $29/seat/month, unlimited transcription and storage, additional features like video screen capture and conversation intelligence
  • Enterprise: Customized pricing, features like custom speech models, SSO, and dedicated support​

Avoma

Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant with conversation intelligence capabilities. It offers features like automatic recording, transcription, live bookmarking, and AI-generated notes for key topics. Avoma integrates with various platforms, assisting in meeting management, collaboration, and revenue intelligence. It's designed to save time in note-taking and improve meeting outcomes with active participation, providing insights for data-driven decisions and coaching.


Best Features

  • You can prepare for meetings in short time through collaboration with your entire team
  • Gain insights into conversations through AI driven snippet creation
  • Integration into CRM software so video recordings can be directly be saved

Pros

  • You can prepare for meetings in short time through collaboration with your entire team
  • Gain insights into conversations through AI driven snippet creation
  • Integration into CRM software so video recordings can be directly saved

Cons

  • Avoma only supports English
  • Only works as an integration in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and more

Pricing

  • Basic plan: $0/user/month
  • Starter plan: $24/user/month
  • Plus plan: $59/user/month
  • Business plan: $79/user/month (billed annually)
  • Enterprise plan: $129/user/month (billed annually)

Conclusion

As you can see, many tools can improve team productivity, meeting experience, and collaboration among team members, each offering something unique.
If you're still having trouble deciding on the right software, try asking yourself a few questions:

  • What feature is most important to me?
  • Do I need something more niche that most tools may not offer?
  • Which integrations are essential to me?
  • What types of meetings do I usually attend?
  • What are the biggest daily struggles for me and my team?
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Hopefully, this has helped you to decide what the best solution is for you.

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What is jamie?

Meet jamie, the best AI meeting assistant that summarizes your meetings in no time.

jamie is an AI meeting assistant that can be used across all meeting software programs and even in on-site meeting rooms, without the need for integrations, bots or plugins.

All you have to do is to start jamie, and it does the rest for you.

Benefits

Time Saver

With jamie you’ll never have to write a meeting summary manually again.

Keep Track

Never forget anything from a meeting by having a summary of all meetings you have participated in

More Focus

Stop worrying about writing your meeting notes and be fully present

Writing meeting summaries is history. jamie is the future.

Try jamie now and see how powerful the meeting summaries are. Starts at 24€/month.

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