# Fireflies.AI

Author: Harsha Gullapalli
Date: March 6th, 2023

**Tags**
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`#AI` `#meeting transcription` `#conversation analysis`

**Table of Contents**
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1. App Summary
2. Features
3. Pricing
4. Sample Use Cases
5. Rules for Use
6. Security
7. Additional Resources
8. Notes from the Author

**1. App Summary**
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Fireflies.ai is an AI-powered app that can transcribe meetings from various video-conferencing apps, dialers, and audio files. It works by inviting its Notetaker to your meetings, capturing both video and audio, and generating transcripts in minutes. The app integrates with popular platforms like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams Webex, Ringcentral, Aircall, and more. Additionally, it allows users to analyze the transcripts, extract valuable insights, and create action items from the conversations.

**2. Features**
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* **Meetings calendar:** This includes adding meetings and permitting fireflies bot to the meetings.
* **Notes:** Ability to summarize and share meeting notes with team members, collaborators, and stakeholders. Includes the ability to scan video files based on each sentence in the transcript.
* **Uploads:** Summarize and create transcripts for any pre-recorded video/audio file.
* **Topic Tracker:** Ability to create topics and keywords for fireflies to quickly search and highlight relevant parts of a conversation.
* **Analytics:** Includes filtering conversations by speakers and key topics, detects sentiment, analyzes the number of questions asked, time spent on specific topics, filler words used, talk-to-listen ratio, etc.
* **Extensions:** Templates to automate actions for a meeting based on specific use cases.
* **AskFred:** Text-based AI chat similar to Chat-GPT that is specifically optimized for meetings.

**3. Pricing**
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As of March 6th, 2023

**4. Sample Use Case**
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**Personal**
Eg. Idea generation based on conversations, video journal insights, etc.

**Organizational**
Eg. Meeting minutes, generative emails based on conversations, action items, recruiting interviews, skill/culture fit evaluation, etc.

**Research**
Eg. Sentiment analysis, pain-point analysis, tone analysis, etc.

**5. Rules for Use**
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Using the fireflies bot in meetings requires permission from all participants.
For complete details [click here](https://guide.fireflies.ai/hc/en-us/articles/9245112296465-Following-Meeting-Recording-Rules-As-A-Fireflies-User-Guidance-for-Participants).

**6. Security**
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Fireflies.ai currently holds two privacy & security certifications, namely SOC2 and General Data Protection Regulation. For more details on security, [click here](https://fireflies.ai/security/).

**SOC 2 is an auditing procedure that ensures your service providers securely manage your data to protect the interests of your organization and the privacy of its clients.*

**7. Additional Resources**
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[User Guide](https://fireflies.ai/blog/how-to-use-fireflies-ai)
[Blog](https://fireflies.ai/blog)

Social Media:
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/firefliesapp)
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/firefliesai)
[Instagram](https://twitter.com/firefliesai)
[Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fireflies-inc/)

## 8. Notes from the Author
The Fireflies app adds a lot of value to teams, individuals, and organizations by automating insight findings, action items, and self-evaluations from meetings.

Although it does come with a couple of downsides. Most features are behind a paywall subscription. This gives very little room for users to test the app and understand the vast benefits it provides.
Security is another concern of mine even if the team behind Flireflies.ai claims to take it very seriously. I do feel uncomfortable when personal/organizational data is handled in a black box and the data creators/owners have very little control over it.

All in all, I highly suggest that readers try out Fireflies.ai while being conscious of sensitive data.