Read's live meeting dashboard is an app that you and others can access while a meeting is in progress. The dashboard lets you view live notes, as well as real-time metrics and access other tools during your meeting. The app is available on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and via your web browser.
Accessing the dashboard
There are a few different ways you can access the live meeting dashboard:
- The easiest is by enabling the "Live Meeting Dashboard" setting from your Account Settings > Report Access & Distribution. This will automatically send a link to the dashboard out to your meeting chat at the start of the call (~3 minutes after Read joins).
- If you have Read's Chrome extension installed, if you open the extension any time while your Read Assistant is in a meeting, you'll see a button to open the live dashboard for that meeting. You can also get notified via a pop up if you have "Show in-progress meeting alerts" enabled in your extension settings (only works on certain pages like Google Calendar and Meet).
- If you install and open either the Zoom or Microsoft Teams app during a call
Layout and features
The live meeting dashboard consists of several different panels, with each containing different features of the app. You can use the buttons in the top right of each panel to collapse them or to "drag and drop" reorder them in your window.
This article will walk through each of the different features, going top to bottom based on the default layout.
Feed
The feed panel is where you'll find live summaries and transcription for your meeting. Once anyone starts speaking on your call, Read will begin to transcribe (although it usually takes several seconds to initialize). Read will also produce bullet point-style summaries of the conversation, with updates roughly every minute or so, depending on the pace of discussion.
The feed will additionally highlight any moments when there was a significant increase or decrease in the sentiment and engagement metrics. You can track the precise sentiment and engagement score in real-time in the metrics panel (more on this below).
The feed contains a couple of other notable features:
- Checkboxes at the top allow you to filter out different types of content from the feed, between the transcript, summary, and metrics updates.
- Star lines in the transcript using the buttons on the right to easily save quotes in your notes section (more on this below).
- Pre-Reads, which are Read's notes from the previous instance of your meeting, will appear as the first thing in your feed if this is a recurring meeting.
Metrics
The metrics panel shows a set of key metrics that Read is constantly computing and updating in real-time for your meeting. These metrics are:
- Filler words: how often the speaker (whoever spoke over the last 10 seconds) is using filler words and phrases, like "um", "you know", etc. Read's recommendation is to keep filler words to under 4% of your speech.
- Average WPM (words per minute): how fast the speaker is talking (whoever spoke over the last 10 seconds). Read's recommended range is 130-175.
- Read Score, Engagement, and Sentiment: the Read Score is an average of the sentiment score (how positive/negative is the conversation) and engagement score (how much are people paying attention to and participating in the conversation). You can learn more about these here.
Participants
The participants panel shows details about everyone who has joined the call. It will list each participant's name (as it appears on the call), along with:
- Talk time: What percentage of the overall conversation was spoken by this participant
- Engagement: Read's engagement score from when that participant was speaking (note: the above example for Serena is not actually possible with 0% talk time).
- Punctuality: Below each participant name, Read will indicate whether they were on time or late to the meeting, based on the calendar event start time. If Read was added to the call manually (e.g. for an ad hoc meeting), then participants will all be listed as "present" instead.
Reports
The reports panel will show any reports that Read has for previous instances of this meeting, if it's part of a recurring series. You can click on a report and it will open in your web browser, so you can quickly get caught up on anything that was discussed during prior meetings.
Notes
The notes panel is where you can save and view any notes that you want to take manually during your call. To add a new note, just click on the "Take notes" button, type, and hit enter. You can also "star" lines in the transcript (from the feed) to have them added to your notes as well. All notes will include a timestamp from when they were added.
You can find these notes saved to your meeting report after it's generated, in the "Your Notes" section. You'll be able to click on the timestamp from the note to jump to that moment in the video (if your report supports video playback). As called out in the app, these notes are always private to your Read account and are not shared with anybody else.
Bottom menu
Along the bottom of the app is a menu with a few important buttons. Going from left to right:
- Clicking the Read icon opens up a larger menu with more options, including:
- The option to opt out of or stop the recording
- A link to view all meeting reports on Read's website
- A link to your account settings on Read's website
- A link to Read's help center
- The option to toggle on the "dark mode" color scheme
- The arrow icon opens up the sharing menu, which lets you adjust who will get access to this report after the meeting ends.
- The link icon lets you copy a link to the live meeting dashboard for this call to share with others. If you have either the Google Docs or Microsoft OneNote.integrations enabled, this will instead copy the link to that doc/notebook.
- The "take notes" button is for adding notes manually (see above).