Here’s the setting: You’re in a dark conference room, trying to capture a speaker’s insights by scribbling in a notebook while snapping photos of distant slides. But when you go back to access your notes, all you see is illegible handwriting accompanied by blurry images.
If this sounds frustratingly familiar, you’ll be glad to know that event tech company Cvent may have made it obsolete with a significant advance in conference note-taking, introduced at their recent Connect conference in San Antonio and expected to be launched later this year.
Cvent’s innovation tackles a longstanding attendee pain point: analog conference note-taking. This inefficient practice forces participants to juggle listening with writing and photographing content, creating cognitive overload that leads to missed insights and connections.
This game-changing new feature may (hopefully) fix the problem of note-taking forever. Thanks to zero-lag speech transcription, it allows attendees to view accurate, real-time transcripts directly in the app. Instead of writing frantically, users simply tap when they hear something important, and the system captures a full minute of the speaker’s words automatically.
The new note taker is part of CventIQ, a new AI tool designed to deliver improved planner efficiency, attendee experiences and planner-venue collaboration.
Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For?
Like Indiana Jones searching through ancient manuscripts, your notes may be buried under the detrius of subsequent conferences, or may simply be impossible to find and lost to time.
Even a recording might not be of much help after it’s buried in your phone app. Instead of struggling with an outdated approach, Cvent’s solution transforms every conversation into immediately actionable intelligence through automatic, concise summaries and intuitive labeling.
The company plans to expand the feature to capture on-screen content when users hit “snapshot”—potentially ending blurry PowerPoint photos forever. No more too-far-away photography struggles or missed slides from sleeping phones.
Cvent Connect’s early implementation of the new note-taking method showed impressive tech performance, with attendees reporting highly accurate transcriptions despite venue noise, as well as instant response times. Beyond the conference itself, the new technology makes post-show wrap-ups and summarizations that much painless as well.
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