Is the language spoken in your meetings different from the English language?
As far as any meeting can be currently held in a hybrid mode, Google Meet’s Notes with Gemini set meeting participants in the futuristic human-centered smart communications. With Gemini in Google Meet meetings you can be at the top of technology solutions to take leadership in your professional niche industry! Immediately after the meeting Gemini is providing you with the essential summary, so you are in the position of looking at different perspectives often missed along the conversation. In a set of Notes with Gemini and Transcript there are even more analytical tools you can use for best results such as NotebookLM Plus’s Mind Map, Audio Overviews, Study Guide, Quiz, Biefieng Document and Summary.
How to activate Notes with Gemini
Notes with Gemini comes with a Google Workspace subscription:
- Business Standard,
- Business Plus,
- Enterprise Standard,
- Enterprise Plus,
- Gemini Enterprise,
- AI Meetings and Messaging,
- check for the recent availability of Gemini for GoogleWorkspace
Notes with Gemini supports one language at a time.
Here’s a how-to guide for Notes with Gemini ( Take Notes for me) in the languages spoken in a Google Meet meeting.
- Start a Google Meet Meeting and go to Settings

- Turn On Host management, so that only the meeting organizer, hosts and co-hosts can start “Take Notes for me”. Consider confidentiality in the virtual meeting to stop and restart notetaking. Hosts can enable Notes with Gemini to start automatically.
- From Meeting Records on the menu select the language spoken in the meeting.
The text above the language box is indicating that “Take Notes for me” will be working in the selected language.
- Cick the pencil icon to start the notetaking with Gemini. The “Take Notes for me” dialog box is including a confirmation about the language it will be taking notes in.

Participants who join late can read “Summary so far”, so they catch up with the conversation.
After the meeting ends the Host ( meeting organizer) is receiving an email with the Notes with Gemini. The document is located in the “Meet Recordings” in My Drive, in Google Drive of the Host (organizer).
You can download the Notes by Gemini in the following formats: Microsoft Word (.docx), OpenDocument Format (.odt), RichText Format (.rtf), PDF Document (.pdf), Plain text (.txt), Webpage (.html, zipped), EPUB Publication (.epub), Markdown (.md).
Google is rolling out more features to Notes by Gemini suh as Suggested Next Steps, Citations etc. Subscribe to Google Workspace Updates blog to keep up with the announcements.
Demo for Notes with Gemini in the spoken French and German Langauages
During the OnEBoard’s Tech Topic 59 live streamed episode I demonstrated Notes with Gemini in the English language. Below are two use cases featuring the new Google Meet languages in the meeting, just added along 7 more languages. For the purpose of these use cases I recorded with Google Vids. , with my Google Workspace Bussiness Standard account. plan.
- French language in a Google Meet meeting. The example text is randomly chosen and credited.
Result 1) NOTES WITH GEMINI in French, Réunion du 27 mars 2025 à 10:27 EET
Résumé
Lors de la réunion, Nina Trankova a présenté les options de transport londoniennes comme efficaces et variées, citant le métro, les bus et la marche à pied. Le réseau de transport a été décrit comme bien interconnecté.
Détails
Transport à Londres: Nina Trankova a décrit les options de transport à Londres comme étant efficaces et variées. Ils ont mentionné le métro, les bus rouges, et la marche à pied comme moyens de se déplacer facilement à travers la ville, soulignant la qualité des connexions.
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enquête.
2. German language in a Meet Meeting. The text is the same as for the use case in French.
Result 2) NOTES WITH GEMINI in German, Besprechung am 27. März 2025 um 12:19 EET
Zusammenfassung
Nina Trankova lobte die exzellente Verkehrsanbindung Londons, insbesondere die U-Bahn, Busse und Themse-Bootsfahrten zur Besichtigung von Sehenswürdigkeiten. Die Präsentation hob die Effizienz und Reichweite des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs hervor.
Details
Nina Trankova Netzwerk in London: Nina Trankova hob die hervorragende Anbindung Londons hervor. Sie betonten die U-Bahn mit ihren farbigen Linien, die die ganze Stadt durchqueren, sowie die oberirdischen Busse und die Möglichkeit, Sehenswürdigkeiten mit dem Flussboot auf der Themse zu besichtigen.
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You can see that the Notes with Gemini in a Google Meet Meeting are working equally well in French and in German. I have spoken 3 min only, so there doesn’t seem to have a strong limitation although Google is recommending a minimum of 15 min long meeting.
How to Turn Off Notes by Gemini
Google Workspace subscription plans give the Administrator control over the Notes with Gemini feature. Here’s how the Admin can toggle “Google AI note-taking” for an organisational unit or a group: from the Admin console go to Google Workspace apps > Google Meet > Settings > Gemini settings.

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Another benefit from using Google Meet is the Annotations feature: https://ninatrankova.com/google/use-annotations-in-video-meetings-and-video-calls/