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Meeting Notes Summarizer

Transcripts to action items in 30 seconds

Feed raw meeting transcripts or recordings through a speech-to-text layer, then extract a structured summary with key decisions, action items with owners, open questions, and next steps — delivered to participants before they leave the room.

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GPT-4o Mini

INPUT / 1M$0.15
OUTPUT / 1M$0.60
CONTEXT128K
SPEED97/100
CODING SCORE
74
REASONING SCORE
78
ESTIMATED MONTHLY COST

for 500K tokens/month · 85% input / 15% output

$0.11

WHY THIS MODEL

GPT-4o Mini extracts action items and key decisions quickly and accurately, making it the cost-effective backbone for meeting automation pipelines that process hundreds of transcripts daily.

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IMPLEMENTATION TIPS

  1. 1

    Structure output with explicit owner fields for every action item and a due-date field — vague action items like 'discuss this later' contribute nothing; the model should be instructed to flag these and ask for clarification if the transcript doesn't specify.

  2. 2

    Process in two passes for longer meetings: first generate a bullet timeline of key moments with timestamps, then extract action items from the timeline — this handles 2-hour meetings that would otherwise exceed context limits cheaply.

  3. 3

    Integrate with your project management tool via API: auto-create tasks from extracted action items with the owner and meeting context pre-populated, closing the loop from meeting to task in seconds.

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