Re: Automatic Minutes for IETF 126

["Leslie Daigle (ThinkingCat)" <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

I have to say — thanks very much!   We forgot to ask for a minute 
taker in one of my groups, and it was no problem to start from the 
automatic minutes, reference the available transcript (thank you!) and 
tune the meeting report to cover the items I felt were important, as 
chair.  Key in that — referencing the transcripts so it wasn’t just 
“I think this was the outcome”.

Obvi - much better than having to go through the recording of the 
meeting and start from scratch to take minutes after the fact (which 
I’ve had to do when a human note taker fell down on the job in a 
meeting).

Super helpful!

Thanks,
Leslie.


On 21 Jul 2026, at 21:52, Eric Rescorla wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'm automatically generating minutes again for IETF 126 at:
>
>  https://ietfminutes.org/minutes/ietf126/index.html
>
> This time around we have a number of improvements:
>
> * Switched to a dedicated speech-to-text model and then using an LLM
>   for corrections and speaker names.
> * Added timestamps to the generated transcripts
> * Ingesting chat logs and polls and include the polls in the
>   result.
>
> Hopefully these will improve quality and make the site more useful
> out of the box.
>
> I'm sure there will still be some errors, so I've now added a feature
> that lets you suggest a correction to the generated transcript and
> minutes.  Clicking on the "Suggest a Correction" button will bring up
> a GitHub issue template where you can fill in what's wrong and the
> system will try to fix things. Right now, I need to approve all
> corrections, but if this works I may try to figure out a way to let
> chairs approve.
>
> As always, feedback welcome, either in email or as GitHub issues.
>
> -Ekr

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