Once you have connected a calendar to Read, the Read Assistant will automatically join your meetings based on the preferences and settings you have configured.
Just go to your Calendar page to see exactly which meetings Read will join on your behalf. Read will attempt to join and record any meeting listed on your Calendar page with "Add Read?" turned on:
You can find and change your preferences for which meetings Read will be set to join by default under your Account Settings > Meeting Recording > Auto-Join Preferences:
If you have the "Auto-Join Calendar Events" option turned on, you can choose between a couple of further options:
- Under "Which Calendar Events" you can configure Read to join all of your meetings, or only meetings where you are the host.
- Under "Who's Invited" you can set Read to join internal and external meetings (any participants), or internal meetings only.
- Internal meetings are ones where all invited participants share the same domain name for their email address.
- This option is only available if your primary email address with Read is on a non-public email domain (e.g. it is a work email address and not @gmail.com or similar personal email service).
- Under "Auto-Join Unscheduled Meetings" you can set Read to join unscheduled meetings for Google Meet and Zoom automatically upon starting a meeting in either of those platforms.
- Also note that if you belong to a Workspace, your admins may have configured your Workspace settings to restrict your options here.
If you have "Auto-join meetings" turned off, then Read will be off by default for all of your meetings. Regardless of the join preferences you have set here, you can always manually turn Read on or off for specific meetings and recurring series from your Calendar page (see I don’t want Read to join all my meetings, what are my options?). Just keep in mind that even if you have Read disabled, other people in your meeting could still have it enabled from their account.
Lastly, Read is only able to join meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet (see What meeting platforms does Read support?). If you have a meeting on a different platform, you can plan to manually record the meeting via Read's desktop app.
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