Recording and organizing meetings is a daily occurrence that remains a persistent headache. You might record a video but lack the time to watch it; when you do have time, finding key moments feels like searching for a needle in a haystack. Locating specific remarks from particular individuals is even more daunting. Feishu Minutes addresses this pain point by transforming audio and video content into searchable, queryable, and organized text records, condensing an hour-long meeting into a summary that can be read in just a few minutes.
What Is Feishu Minutes?
Feishu Minutes (feishu.cn/product/minutes) is the AI-powered meeting and audio/video processing feature of Feishu, ByteDance’s collaboration platform. It offers core functionalities including real-time speech-to-text transcription, upload-and-transcribe for audio/video files, AI-generated summaries, intelligent chapter segmentation, and full-text search.
Feishu Minutes is not merely a standalone tool; it is deeply integrated into the Feishu ecosystem—seamlessly connecting with Feishu Meetings, Feishu Docs, and Feishu Calendar to enhance enterprise collaboration workflows.
Core Features
Real-Time Speech Transcription
During Feishu Meetings, Minutes can transcribe each speaker’s words in real time. Combined with speaker identification, it clarifies who said what, generating live meeting records.
The transcription results sync with the meeting video. Clicking on any segment of text jumps the video directly to the corresponding timestamp, facilitating easy review and verification.
Audio/Video File Upload & Transcription
Beyond Feishu Meetings, Minutes supports uploading external audio and video files—such as recordings, interviews, public lecture videos, podcasts, and meeting recordings—for transcription and organization. This expands its application scenarios from meetings to broader audio/video content processing.
AI Summaries and Chapter Segmentation
This is the core AI functionality of Minutes. Upon completion of transcription, the AI automatically:
- Generates Meeting Summaries: Compresses the core content of the entire meeting into a few hundred words.
- Performs Intelligent Chapter Segmentation: Identifies topic-switching nodes to divide the meeting into multiple thematic chapters, assigning titles to each.
- Extracts Action Items: Automatically identifies mentioned action items, task assignments, and next steps.
The value of these features is cumulative: summaries allow absentees to quickly grasp the content, chapter segmentation helps users locate topics of interest, and action item extraction ensures no follow-up tasks are missed.
Full-Text Search
All transcribed content supports full-text retrieval. To find out “what XX said in the last meeting,” simply search for keywords to pinpoint the exact speaking timestamp, eliminating the need to recall or re-listen to recordings.
This is highly practical for reviewing historical meetings, especially when verifying discussion conclusions after a significant period has passed.
AI Q&A
You can ask questions about the meeting content:
- “What were the main conclusions of this meeting?”
- “What requirements did the client propose?”
- “Who is responsible for the next phase of work?”
The AI answers based on the meeting content, shifting the workload of organization from humans to AI. This is particularly suitable for large meetings with many participants and complex discussions.
Multi-Language Support
Supports speech-to-text transcription in Chinese, English, and mixed Chinese-English, handling multinational meetings with foreign members effectively.
Collaboration and Sharing
Records generated by Minutes can be:
- Shared with the team within Feishu Docs
- Collaboratively edited by inviting others (adding comments, modifying annotations)
- Shared externally via a link
- Exported as text or subtitle files
Comparison with Other Tools
vs Tencent Meeting AI: Tencent Meeting also offers AI minutes for its users. However, Feishu Minutes integrates more deeply with the Feishu ecosystem (Docs, Calendar, Tasks), providing a more complete experience for Feishu users.
vs Zoom AI Companion: Zoom’s AI assistant covers meeting summaries and email drafting, targeting international users. Feishu Minutes handles Chinese more naturally and is better suited for domestic users.
vs Tongyi Tingwu (Alibaba): A similar product that also supports meeting recording and file upload transcription. Feature coverage is comparable; the choice largely depends on which ecosystem aligns better with your team’s usage habits.
vs DingTalk AI Meetings: DingTalk integrates with the Alibaba ecosystem, connecting meeting minutes with DingTalk tasks. Feishu Minutes integrates with Feishu Docs. The decision depends on which office collaboration tool your team uses.
vs Independent Transcription Tools (Otter.ai): Otter is a mainstream choice in English-speaking environments but has limited Chinese support. Feishu Minutes is optimized for Chinese, offering higher accuracy for Chinese content.
Who Should Use Feishu Minutes?
Feishu Users (Core Audience): For teams already using Feishu, Minutes offers nearly zero-cost efficiency gains—simply enable it during a Feishu Meeting. No additional configuration is needed, and organized records are ready immediately after the meeting ends.
Managers with Dense Meeting Schedules: Managers holding multiple meetings daily can use AI summaries to skim less critical meetings and review important ones in full, significantly reducing time spent on meetings.
Teams Needing to Track Meeting Decisions: In scenarios requiring compliance or traceability, AI-generated meeting records are more reliable than those dependent on manual organization.
Content Creators and Researchers: Beyond meetings, you can upload interviews, lectures, and podcast recordings for transcription and organization. Minutes serves as a versatile audio content processing tool.
Limitations
Its greatest value is realized within the Feishu ecosystem. Non-Feishu users should evaluate whether it’s worth introducing Feishu specifically for Lark Minutes.
Automatic transcription accuracy depends on audio quality; recordings with high noise levels or strong accents may see reduced recognition accuracy.
Recognition of complex, domain-specific terminology can be error-prone. Transcripts from professional meetings in fields such as healthcare, law, and finance require manual proofreading.
AI-generated summaries offer limited value for very short meetings (under 10 minutes) but shine in medium-to-long sessions.
Pricing
Lark Minutes is part of the Lark suite. Core features are included in Lark’s Standard plan; advanced AI capabilities and additional transcription minutes may require a paid subscription. Refer to the official Lark website for details.
For teams already using Lark, Lark Minutes should be one of the first AI features to seriously adopt—it directly addresses the nearly universal pain point of “too many meetings, too difficult to take notes,” offering a high return on investment.