Read Highlights
Read is an AI-powered tool that offers a range of meeting solutions to help improve meeting wellness and productivity. It offers features s...
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What is Read Highlights?
Read AI is an AI-powered meeting intelligence platform that helps individuals and teams capture, understand, and act on meetings through summaries, transcripts, insights, and automated workflows. The tool automatically joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet meetings to record conversations and generate AI-powered meeting notes, summaries, transcripts, action items, and key questions without requiring software installation.
Key features include real-time transcription with speaker identification, AI-generated meeting summaries organized by topic, automatic action item extraction, video highlights that convert 60-minute meetings into 2-minute highlight reels, engagement scores and talk time analytics, personalized AI coaching with recommendations for improving pacing and reducing filler words, and enterprise search through Search Copilot that unifies meetings, emails, messages, cloud storage, and CRM data for natural language querying. The platform also offers Topic Readouts, meeting metrics, and multi-modal analysis combining text and visual cues.
Read AI is designed for professionals and teams who want to improve meeting productivity and wellness, including remote workers, sales teams, managers, educators, and organizations using Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet. It supports 20+ languages, is SOC 2 certified, and works across all major video conferencing platforms without requiring participants to have licenses.
Read Highlights pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Read AI offers four plans per user/month: Free ($0) includes 5 meeting transcripts/month, unlimited enterprise search, best-in-class summaries, personalized meeting coach, basic integrations, Topic Readouts, 20+ languages, and mobile apps. Pro ($19.75/month or $15/month with annual billing) adds unlimited meeting transcripts, priority report processing, 100 file upload credits/month, and premium integrations (Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier, webhooks). Enterprise ($29.75/month or $22.50/month annually) includes everything in Pro plus audio/video playback, video highlights, 200 file upload credits/month, and premium support. Enterprise+ ($39.75/month or $29.75/month annually, requires 5+ licenses) adds HIPAA compliance, SAML & SCIM, domain capture, custom data retention policy, 300 file upload credits/month, and workspace onboarding. All paid plans include unlimited meeting reports, unlimited storage, and workspace access. Zoom customers with Zoom One Pro, Business, or Business Plus can get Read's premium features at no cost through Zoom Essential Apps.
Read Highlights pros
- Automatically joins Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet meetings without software installation
- AI-generated summaries organized by topic with clear takeaways and next steps
- Full transcription broken out by speaker with sentiment and engagement augmentation
- Video highlights convert 60-minute meetings into 2-minute highlight reels or 30-second trailers
- Engagement scores and talk time analytics show who was disengaged during meetings
- Auto-detection of action items, key questions, and answers from meetings
- Personalized AI coaching with metrics on talking speed, filler words, bias, and charisma
- Search Copilot enables natural language search across meetings, emails, messages, and CRM data
- Works across Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and Webex without platform dependency
- Supports 20+ languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Spanish
- SOC 2 certified with encryption and no training on your data by default
- Free tier includes 5 meeting transcripts per month with no credit card required
- Unlimited storage and indefinite meeting report storage on paid plans
- Premium integrations with Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Jira, Confluence, Zapier, and webhooks
- Mobile apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and MacOS for recording in-person meetings
Read Highlights cons
- Free plan limited to only 5 meetings per month, very restrictive for regular users
- Pro plan ($19.75/month) doesn't include video playback or highlights, must upgrade to Enterprise
- Enterprise plan has 50% price jump from Pro ($29.75 vs $19.75) just for video features
- Uses a visible bot that notifies participants, which some find intrusive or awkward
- Privacy concerns as clients/vendors can add Read to meetings without organization consent
- Maximum meeting length on Free plan is only 1 hour versus 4 hours on paid plans
- No file uploads included on Free plan, only 100 mins/mo on Pro
- Enterprise+ requires minimum 5 licenses, not suitable for very small teams
Frequently asked questions about Read Highlights
How do I add Read to a meeting?
Read automatically detects upcoming Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet meetings through your calendar connection and prompts you to add Read. You can also connect your calendar and tell Read which meetings it should join. Read can join even if you don't attend the meeting yourself, making it useful for double- or triple-booked situations. Nothing requires downloading, installing, updating, or maintaining—it works entirely through calendar integration.
Do all meeting participants need a license to Read?
No, only the person who owns the Read license needs it. Read AI can join and record meetings whether someone is hosting or just joining as a participant. Participants without licenses can still receive email recaps and access meeting reports through the link provided. This makes it cost-effective for organizations to have licenses for meeting hosts only.
How do I turn off Read AI?
You can turn off Read AI by going to your settings and disabling the automatic meeting joining feature. You can also make specific meeting reports private through your account settings. To completely deactivate, you can deactivate your Read account through the account management page, which will stop all meeting recording and data collection.
Can I edit text and speaker names in my meeting report?
Yes, you can edit both the transcript text and speaker names in your meeting report after it's generated. This helps correct any transcription errors or misidentified speakers. The editing functionality is available across all plans and allows you to improve the accuracy of your meeting records.
How do I not send email recaps to meeting participants?
You can disable email recaps to meeting participants through your meeting settings or report distribution preferences. This allows you to keep meeting reports private to your organization or specific team members without automatically sharing them with all participants via email.
What does Read AI do with my data?
Read AI encrypts all data by default and is SOC 2 certified. By default, there is no training on your data unless you explicitly enable it. Read provides data retention policies on Enterprise+ plans that can automatically delete meeting reports after a specified number of days. Your data is stored indefinitely on paid plans and is accessible through your workspace.
How does billing work with a Workspace?
Billing for Workspaces is per user/email signed up for Read. A Read license is tied to the seat rather than the name, meaning you can reassign a license if someone leaves your company. You can mix Enterprise and Pro licenses for different users within the same workspace. Annual billing provides a 25% discount across all paid plans.
What is the maximum meeting length Read can record?
The maximum recording duration varies by plan: Free supports meetings up to 1 hour, Pro and Enterprise support up to 4 hours, and Enterprise+ supports up to 8 hours. This determines the longest meeting Read can record and transcribe in a single session.
What are Workspaces and what do they include?
Workspaces are designed for teams and allow you to set report distribution and sharing rules, control which meetings Read joins, and manage user licenses across your organization. All paid plans include workspace access. Enterprise+ includes workspace onboarding where you work with a specialist to tailor workspace settings to your organization's specific needs.
How does Search Copilot work and what can it search?
Search Copilot is AI-powered search that connects your meetings, emails, messages, cloud storage, workflow data, and CRM information. You can use ChatGPT-like prompts to ask questions directly within Microsoft Teams or the Read interface, and it will find answers based on your connected data. It helps you find key details, write status memos, and get the latest information across projects with one prompt, unifying all your content for smarter enterprise search.