Zoom has introduced new AI companion capabilities and customisable landing pages for Zoom Events and Zoom Sessions.

As part of the latest companion features, Zoom has made improvements to meeting summaries and built generative AI into Zoom Clips.

Other release highlights include Zoom Whiteboard updates, plus Slack and Teams integrations with Workspace Reservation.

Earlier this month, the US-based collaboration platform also announced the availability of its new collaborative docs solution, Zoom Docs.

It will enable enhanced collaboration capabilities across Zoom Workplace by accessing information from Zoom meetings and converting it into the most relevant and beneficial format.

AI Companion Updates

The latest updates to Zoom’s smart assistant ‘AI Companion’ include generative AI virtual backgrounds, which allows users to quickly create backgrounds for meetings using simple text prompts.

With optical character recognition (OCR), AI Companion is now able to turn images of text sharing during meetings into machine-readable versions to enable meeting summaries. In-meeting chat messages are also being used to add context to meeting summaries.

To make things easier, Zoom Clips titles and descriptions can be automatically generated from the clips’ transcript.

Meetings summaries are shareable with co-hosts, where previously it was only the host that received the AI summaries.

Zoom’s ROI calculator has been released to demonstrate productivity and cost savings when AI Companion for Zoom Meetings is used throughout a business.

The Zoom AI Companion Onboarding Center is a resource for admins that provides organisations with user guides, email templates, videos, surveys, best practices, and more.

AI Companion comes free with paid services in Zoom accounts, although it is only available in select regions and industry verticals.

Event Landing Pages

Zoom’s new page builder comes with a drag-and-drop editor, content blocks, and widgets to make ‘seamless’ event journeys.

AI Companion can be utilised within the page builder too to generate accompanying images and text.

In Zoom’s related blog post, it explains the importance of having an effective landing page for events: “When organising a virtual or in-person event, one of the most important steps during the event set-up is to create an event landing page that will captivate audiences and encourage them to sign up for the event.

“However, event professionals are usually limited to using restrictive, off-the-shelf templates unless they pull in design and developer resources which is typically not scalable for every event.”

Zoom Whiteboard and Workspace Reservation

Zoom has introduced “my saved shapes” to help prevent icons and images from getting lost, as well as making it quicker and easier for users to access them when required. Whiteboards will also be able to be embedded in other applications like Code and Confluence.

A further whiteboard upgrade will let users import content from Miro to Zoom Whiteboard to simplify the experience.

Finally, Workspace Reservation will be available on Microsoft Teams and Slack, with Zoom Chatbot delivering notifications and offering a check-in service.

In July, Zoom also announced a no-code workflow builder, Zoom Workflow Automation, that simplifies the creation of complex workflows within Zoom Workplace.

 

 



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