Zoom Unveils Real-Time AI Meeting Assistant
A new kind of meeting is becoming possible. Even when people speak too quickly because they feel nervous during video calls or move away from the main topic, artificial intelligence (AI) can give them advice as they speak. Meetings with people who speak other languages are also becoming easier. AI can translate speech in real time while keeping the speaker's voice and tone. AI is moving beyond simply recording and summarizing meetings. It is becoming a real-time assistant that helps people during meetings.
Video meeting company Zoom introduced its new “Live Meeting Agent” at its annual event, “Zoomtopia 2026,” on October 20, local time. During meetings, the tool studies how quickly a person speaks and what they say. It gives advice on a private screen that only that person can see. For example, it warns users if they speak too quickly or go off topic. If someone asks an unexpected question, the tool searches the company's internal data to find useful information that can help the user answer.
AI can also improve how people look and sound during meetings. Zoom introduced a feature that translates a person's speech into other languages while keeping their original voice and tone. The tool can also adjust where a person's eyes appear to look, within a range of 17 degrees, so they seem to be looking straight at the screen even when their camera is not directly facing them.
Zoom is also working to prevent fraud in AI-powered video meetings. It introduced a paid feature that detects and warns users when video or audio during a meeting has been changed using deepfake technology. Zoom has also improved its “My Notes” feature. It creates meeting summaries and notes tailored to each person, including people who could not attend or had to leave early.
Zoom will make its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server available so it can connect with outside AI services such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. This will let users ask these outside AI tools to schedule meetings or find and summarize information from past meetings without opening Zoom directly.
Russell Dicker, Zoom's Chief Product Officer (CPO), said, “Users do not want new AI tools; they want their tasks completed smoothly. We have integrated AI into customers’ daily workflows, such as meetings and conversations.”