How to block AI notetakers in Zoom, Google Meet and Teams — and why it keeps not working
Per-platform steps to keep Otter, Fireflies and Read.ai out of your meetings, plus an honest account of where each vendor's controls still fall short.
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Notes on meetings and the software around them.
What we learned building a meeting room, and what we found when we went and read what people actually say about the ones they already use. Every claim here carries its source, which is the same rule the product applies to a transcript.
Why a meeting bot needs a whole browser to take notes
A teardown of how meeting bots actually work — containers, headless Chrome, mixed audio — and why speaker attribution is structural, not a model problem.
Your meeting transcript didn't generate. Here's how to get it back
Meet or Zoom transcript missing, empty, or never generated? Recovery paths in order, plus how to transcribe a recording you already have.
The AI put your words in someone else's mouth
Speaker attribution errors are not a bug waiting for a patch. They are what happens when a tool hears one mixed stream and has to guess who spoke.