BizCrush Takes On Noisy Multilingual Meetings

The useful part

That is the promise behind BizCrush, a multilingual meeting tool that combines live captions, translation, speaker labeling, summaries, and meeting reports. The startup is not positioning itself solely as a replacement for Zoom notes. It wants to capture the in-person conversation, live, at a trade show, a sales meeting, or a conference booth — then send the resulting record into tools such as Slack and Notion.

How it works

• I met BizCrush CEO Taemin Kwak in person for a demonstration, and the basic workflow was easy to understand.
• I scanned a QR code, joined a live transcript on my phone without installing an app, and followed an English presentation translated into French (which I speak fluently).
• BizCrush wants attendees to follow and participate in a conversation even when they do not speak the language.
• By providing a live translation, then a permanent record, BizCrush occupies the full spectrum of translation value.
• Arguably, the live translation is the most important aspect, but the record keeping comes as a very convenient bonus, especially in the age of AI when agents can actually go back, read and extract insights.

What to take from it

BizCrush says its product supports real-time translation in 60 languages, speaker detection and labeling, AI summaries, calendar synch...

Details worth keeping

A useful meeting record should do more than produce a transcript.