Read Blog

Read is excited to announce the launch of three new products: Read Recommendations, Read Smart Scheduler, and Read Workspace. In addition, Read is introducing meeting playback and augmented reality.

Read makes it easy to communicate if a meeting is a good or bad use of your time by delivering a meeting recap email after each meeting, which includes a thumbs up or thumbs down feedback option.

The modern meeting is broken, yet we see a 153% increase in meetings over the last two years. We’re piling bad meetings on top of bad meetings, with the hope that things will magically change using medieval solutions like “No Meeting Mondays”.

Transcription 2.0 for Google Meet delivers best-in-class transcription and introduces the concept of reactions into the transcript. Reactions in transcripts measure how the audience reacts to the speaker’s words, allowing a reader to contextualize the conversation. 

Read introduces the next generation of speech to text with Transcription 2.0, which augments traditional transcripts by highlighting moments based on engagement (high, low) and sentiment (positive, negative).

With the Chief Meeting Officer (CMO) Dashboard you will be able to see what actions you can take to improve your meetings, and the interactions you have with everyone you meet with each day.

Across 3MM+ Meeting Minutes Measured, Read finds 31% of Meetings Start Late, 24% of Participants are Disengaged, and 15% of Meetings Have Poor Sentiment.

Read is partnering with Webex by Cisco to deliver Read Dashboard accessible as an embedded app available directly within Webex. Webex users will have free access to real-time in-meeting analytics to understand “how the meeting is going,” versus “how the meeting went,” creating better and more productive meeting experiences.

Read Dashboard is now available on Zoom Apps as a free service! The in-meeting integration with Zoom brings real-time analytics on Engagement, Sentiment, and Talk Time into your next meeting. Read believes that shared metrics encourage collaboration across meeting attendees, resulting in more productive meetings.

Read AI, Inc. exits stealth mode with the launch of Read Dashboard, a real-time shared dashboard that measures engagement and sentiment for meeting attendees. Read, which delivers better meetings through measurement, also announced a $10 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from PSL Ventures and notable angels. It is the company’s first financing round.