Zoom calls that write themselves up.
The notetaker joins your Zoom meetings as a visible guest, transcribes what was said with the right names against it, and leaves notes you can search months later.
How it joins
The notetaker joins as a named guest participant and is visible in the participants panel for the whole call.
Zoom is the platform where the join link is most likely to be somewhere awkward. Meetings scheduled through Outlook or Google Calendar frequently carry the link in the invite body or the location field rather than in a structured one, so Canto scans that text as well as the fields, and recognises Zoom's own domains alongside the vanity and government ones. If a link is somewhere it cannot find, pasting it directly works.
Two ways to start
- From the calendar. Connect Google Calendar or Microsoft 365, then switch the notetaker on for a meeting or for a whole recurring series. It joins on its own from then on.
- From a link. Paste a join URL and the notetaker goes to that meeting, which is the quicker path for a call that is not in your calendar or that someone else organised.
What you get afterwards
- A transcript with real speaker names, matched from the platform's own participant timeline rather than guessed from the audio
- Notes with the agenda checked off, decisions, action items and open questions, written in the language you set
- The meeting's calendar context attached, so the summary knows what the meeting was supposed to be about
- Search and chat across every meeting you have recorded, not just this one
- Sharing with a folder, so the people who need the notes get them without being in the call
Recording is announced, not hidden
The notetaker is a visible participant with a name you choose, in the list for the whole call, admitted by whoever runs the meeting. That is the opposite of a covert recording, and it is deliberate. It does not replace telling people what the recording is for, which is a legal question rather than a product one.
Questions
Does the notetaker need a paid Zoom account?
No. It joins as a guest through the meeting's join link, so it does not consume a seat on your Zoom plan. Meetings with a waiting room or a passcode in the link work the same way, with the host admitting it as they would any other guest.
My Zoom links come from Outlook invites. Does that work?
Yes. Links scheduled through Outlook or Google Calendar often end up in the invite body rather than a structured field, so Canto reads the description and location text as well. If a particular invite hides it somewhere unusual, pasting the link into Canto works.
How does it tell speakers apart?
It uses Zoom's own record of who was speaking when, matched against the transcript, rather than trying to identify voices from the audio. That means the names on the transcript are the names in the participant list, not guesses.
Can I use Canto for in-person meetings too?
Yes, and that is the part most notetakers skip. The phone and watch apps record a room directly, and those recordings land in the same library with the same transcript, notes and search across them.
Send it to your next meeting.
300 minutes a month, free forever. Connect a calendar, or paste a link and watch it join.