ElevenAI: ElevenLabs previews a meeting notes and dictation app

ElevenAI is the new ElevenLabs app for meeting notes and dictation. The company showed it at its New York summit on November 11, and TechCrunch reported the details on November 13. It is a preview. You sign up for early access and wait. The voice company that many teams use for agents now wants a seat in each of your meetings, and it has not yet said what it does with the recordings.

What actually happened

ElevenLabs described the app in its summit post. TechCrunch added more. The facts:

• Meeting notes. ElevenAI listens to conversations, in-person meetings included, and writes notes and next steps. When the call ends, each attendee gets a summary and action items.
• Consent. ElevenLabs says notice and consent mechanisms are built in. TechCrunch reports that the app tells other participants that the conversation is recorded.
• Live help. During a call, the app can find details from earlier meetings.
• Dictation. Speech becomes clean text in any app. TechCrunch reports support for more than 90 languages and for industry terms.
• Agents. Companies can connect ElevenAgent for follow-up work, such as an email draft from the notes.
• The engine. Dictation and notes run on Scribe v3, the ElevenLabs speech-to-text model.
• Access. Free early access opened on November 11. There is no direct download.

TechCrunch names the competition: Fireflies, Wispr Flow and Granola. ElevenLabs is valued at $22 billion, so it has the money to stay in this market.

What ElevenAI does not tell you yet

Neither source gives the price after the preview, the platforms, the retention period for audio and transcripts, or the model-training policy. For a tool that records your sales calls and staff meetings, those are the important facts. A free preview is not a contract.

Why it matters for your business

Meeting notes are a solved problem. The risk is the recording. Some US states require consent from all parties before you record a conversation. A notice from the app helps, but the legal duty is yours. Check the rule for your state and for your customer's state.

The second risk is where the transcript goes. A sales call can contain prices, a card number that a customer reads aloud, or a staff matter. Uber learned this week what an AI vendor breach costs.

Before you install any AI note-taker:

1. Write a recording rule. Which meetings can be recorded, who must agree, and how you ask.
2. Get the data terms in writing. Retention, training use, deletion and subprocessors.
3. Exclude the sensitive meetings. HR, legal and payment calls stay off the recorder.
4. Pilot with one team. Measure the hours saved before you pay for seats.

Sources: ElevenLabs: Everything announced at Summit NYC, TechCrunch.