Read’s live meeting dashboard is an app that you, and anyone you share it with, can open while a meeting is in progress. It shows live notes and real-time metrics, along with other tools for your meeting. You can open it from Read’s apps for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, the Read AI desktop app, the browser extension, or a web browser.
Accessing the dashboard
There are a few ways to open the live meeting dashboard:
- Read’s browser extension: The extension menu shows in-progress meetings at the top, with a button to open the live dashboard in your browser. You can also get a pop-up notification (only on certain pages, like Google Calendar and Google Meet). See Using Read’s browser extension.
- Read’s apps for meeting platforms: See How to install Read’s app for Teams, How to install Read’s app for Zoom, and Using Read’s Google Meet Native Recording.
- The Read AI desktop app: Open it from the Home page. See How to Use Read’s Desktop App for Windows and Mac.
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A link in the meeting chat: Go to Account Settings > Report Sharing and, under Live Meeting Dashboard Access, turn on Automatically share the Live Meeting Dashboard.
- When it’s on, Read posts a link to the dashboard in the meeting chat about 3 minutes after it joins. Anyone with the link can see the dashboard during the meeting, even without a Read account.
- When it’s off, only people with access to the meeting report can view the dashboard, using Read’s browser extension or apps.
- The link isn’t posted if the meeting chat is turned off, or if you’re recording with Google Meet native recording, since Read doesn’t join as a participant.
- Workspace admins can control whether members can share this link. See What are all of the settings and permissions available with Workspaces?.
Layout and features
The live meeting dashboard has several panels, each with different features. Use the buttons at the top right of each panel to collapse it or drag and drop it into a different order.
The sections below walk through each panel from top to bottom, in the default layout.
Feed
The feed panel is where you’ll find live summaries and transcription for your meeting. Once anyone starts speaking, Read begins to transcribe (it usually takes several seconds to start). Read also writes bullet-point summaries of the conversation, updated roughly every minute, depending on the pace of discussion.
The feed also highlights moments when sentiment or engagement went up or down significantly. You can track the exact sentiment and engagement scores in real time in the Metrics panel.
Other features in the feed:
- Checkboxes at the top let you choose what the feed shows: Transcript, Summary, and Metrics updates.
- Star lines in the transcript using the buttons on the right to save quotes to your Notes.
- Pre-Reads, Read’s notes from the previous meeting in a recurring series, appear first in your feed.
Metrics
The metrics panel shows key metrics that Read updates in real time during your meeting:
- Filler words: How often the current speaker (whoever spoke in the last 10 seconds) uses filler words and phrases, like “um” or “you know.” Read recommends keeping filler words under 4% of your speech.
- Average WPM (words per minute): How fast the current speaker (whoever spoke in the last 10 seconds) is talking. Read’s recommended range is 130–175.
- Read Score, Engagement, and Sentiment: The Read Score combines the Sentiment score (how positive or negative the conversation is) and the Engagement score (how much people are paying attention and taking part). See About Sentiment, Engagement, and the Read Score.
Participants
The participants panel shows everyone who has joined the call. It lists each participant’s name (as it appears on the call), along with:
- Talk time: The percentage of the conversation this participant has spoken.
- Engagement: Read’s Engagement score from when the participant was speaking.
- Punctuality: Below each name, Read shows whether the participant was on time or late, based on the calendar event start time. If Read was added to the call manually (for example, for an ad hoc meeting), everyone is listed as “Present” instead. See How do I manually add Read to a live meeting?.
Reports
If the meeting is part of a recurring series, the reports panel shows Read’s reports from earlier meetings in the series. Click a report to open it in your web browser and catch up on what was discussed before.
Notes
The notes panel is where you can write and view your own notes during the call. To add a note, click Take notes, type, and press Enter. You can also star lines in the transcript (in the Feed) to add them to your notes. Every note includes a timestamp from when it was added.
After the meeting, your notes are saved to the meeting report in the Your Notes section. Click a note’s timestamp to jump to that moment in the video (if your report has video playback). These notes are always private to your Read account and aren’t shared with anyone else.
Bottom menu
The menu along the bottom of the app has a few important buttons. From left to right:
- The Read icon opens a larger menu with more options, including:
- Opting out of or stopping the recording
- A link to view all your meeting reports on Read’s website
- A link to your Account Settings on Read’s website
- A link to Read’s help center
- Turning on dark mode
- The arrow icon opens the sharing menu, where you can choose who gets access to this report after the meeting ends.
- The link icon copies a link to this meeting’s live dashboard so you can share it. If you’ve turned on the Google Docs or Microsoft OneNote integration, it copies the link to that doc or notebook instead.
- The Take notes button adds notes manually (see Notes above).