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Getting it into a call

  • Invite it. Add its address to the calendar invite, and it joins on time.
  • Send it the link. Email or message it a Meet or Teams link and it comes straight away.
In Teams it joins from the browser under its own name, so let it in from the lobby if the call has one.
Zoom isn’t supported. Zoom turns automated participants away, and we respect that.

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In the call

  • It listens through the call’s captions, and speaks when someone talks to it. In a call of just the two of you it knows you’re talking to it, so you don’t need to use its name.
  • It checks facts on the spot, such as your calendar or a figure in a file, and tells you out loud.
  • It sees what’s on screen in Meet when someone presents, and can look at who’s on camera if asked.
  • It presents in Meet: ask it to show a Doc, a Sheet or a deck. A deck opens as a slideshow, and you can ask it for the next or previous slide.
Anything that needs real work takes a little longer, from a few seconds to about half a minute, like a colleague looking something up. It tells you it’s on it.

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After the call

When the call ends it gets the record of what was said, and does what a colleague who was there would do: what it was asked or agreed to, including notes if you asked for them. If Meet recorded or transcribed the call, the links appear beside it on the dashboard.

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If nobody comes

It waits about 10 minutes, then leaves and lets the organiser know. Once everyone has gone it leaves too: quickly if the call plainly wrapped up, or after a while if someone said they’d be back.