MeetMate

A google meet supported chrome extension that auto generates notes and alerts the user over specified keywords.

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Meet-Mate

You best mate in meets!

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Inspiration

Do you zone out in the middle of your video call? Are you super productive and prefer to multitask by attending calls and doing something else?

To whom of us didn’t it happen? Since March 2020, we all have been working online and have attended a lot of meets and calls for different purposes. Sometimes due to a monotonous schedule or due to back-to-back meetings or sometimes because of mandatory virtual presence in the meets, it gets tiresome to keep up with everything and reach the day-end without getting frustrated. To help with this issue, we came up with a project Meet-Mate.

What it does

Meet-mate is a chrome extension that alerts you whenever extra attention is needed in the meeting and it auto-generates the notes which the user can download in the form of pdf.

How we built it

We created this chrome extension using Javascript and HTML. As of now, it is implemented for Google Meet and in the future we are planning to make it available for other platforms.

This extension parses the captions of the call and alerts whenever someone says your defined string. It uses captions to get the transcript of the meet. The background script observes the captions and saves in chrome storage. When you click the download button it takes all the transcript which has been saved till the moment in the storage, compiles it into pdf, and then serves you. Data automatically gets deleted when a new meeting is joined.

Try it Out using git clone

  • In your console, type https://github.com/Hetvi-Aryan/XNK32899189-HandA.git
  • Open chrome, click on ellipsis on top right corner.
  • Go to More tools > Extensions and toggle on the Developer mode toggler.
  • Now click on Load unpacked
  • Browse over to the cloned repo and select the folder. The extension has now been installed.

Challenges we ran into

  1. Understanding the dynamics of HTML, CSS, Javascript to chrome extension was tricky
  2. While generating the alert for defined keywords, we were getting a lag in alert sound once the keyword is encountered, this issue took a lot of our time and effort to get solved.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We started building this solution for this hackathon just 6 hours before the deadline. But, we successfully implemented both the main features of Meet-Mate within a very short period of time.

What we learned

  1. Developing a chrome extension and the different use cases
  2. Time - management and Teamwork

What's next for MeetMate

As of now, Meet-Mate is working perfectly fine for Google meets. We are planning to incorporate it with other online meetings platforms and for YouTube.

Currently, the extension uses captions to implement features and in the future, we are planning to generate notes and alert through voice detection using Machine Learning.

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