Real-Time AI Note Taker with Contextual Highlights

Abstract

This study presents an advanced web-based intelligent note-taking system that enhances participation and productivity in virtual meetings through the use of contextual awareness and real-time transcribing. The proposed system, Real-Time AI Note Taker with Contextual Highlights, uses cutting-edge speech recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to automatically transcribe live audio, identify crucial entities like names, actions, and deadlines, and dynamically highlight key points of discussion. With its interactive and scalable user interface and seamless connection with video conferencing services like Google Meet, the solution was built using the MERN stack architecture (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js). The system makes use of the HuggingFace T5-small NLP model for contextual tagging and summarization, as well as Google Speech-to-Text (STT) for precise speech recognition. The system generates clear summaries and well-structured transcripts that can be exported, saved, and retrieved at a later time. This framework is intended for professionals, educators, and students. It improves focus and memory, minimizes manual note-taking, and lowers cognitive load. The suggested system encourages astute cooperation and effective information handling in both academic and professional settings.

Introduction

The paper presents Real-Time AI Note Taker with Contextual Highlights, an intelligent system designed to automate and improve digital note-taking during meetings, seminars, and conferences. As online communication and virtual collaboration expand, participants often struggle to capture important points accurately. Existing platforms like Zoom or Google Meet provide only basic recording or captions, requiring users to manually extract key information, which is time-consuming and error-prone.

The proposed system leverages AI, natural language processing (NLP), and speech-to-text models (e.g., Whisper, GPT, BERT, HuggingFace T5-small) to provide real-time transcription, contextual entity recognition, and automated summarization. Key features include:

• Audio preprocessing: Noise reduction, echo removal, normalization, segmentation, and voice activity detection ensure clean, consistent audio for accurate transcription.

• Speech-to-text conversion: Google Speech-to-Text API handles diverse accents and speech patterns for accurate transcription.

• Contextual processing and NLP: Named Entity Recognition (NER), tokenization, dependency parsing, and contextual embeddings extract meaningful entities like names, dates, decisions, and action items.

• Note generation and summarization: Combines extractive and abstractive summarization to produce concise, logical notes with contextual highlights for quick comprehension.

• System architecture: MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) ensures scalability, real-time performance, secure cloud storage, and user-friendly interface.

• Optimization: Enhances recognition accuracy, reduces latency, and manages resources for efficient real-time operation.

The system enables real-time, context-aware, and actionable notes that improve productivity, collaboration, and information retention in professional and academic settings. Results demonstrate accurate transcription, effective summarization, and clear highlighting of key discussion points, making it suitable for corporate, academic, and collaborative digital environments.

Conclusion

The research effectively demonstrates an AI-based note-taking system that converts speech into coherent and intelligible text in real-time. The technology first records live audio, then uses advanced speech-to-text algorithms to process and accurately translate spoken input into text. The system is guaranteed to comprehend the semantic meaning, identify significant entities, and document the relationships between concepts using natural language comprehension and contextual processing following transcription. This comprehension serves as the cornerstone for crafting concise and coherent notes. Contextual highlights are used for important points, action items, and decisions, and the note generating and summarizing module efficiently condenses lengthy transcriptions into information that is clear and easy to grasp. Because of this, people can quickly get important information without reading the entire document. By combining deep learning with natural language processing models, the system can adapt to different accents, speech patterns, and situations, increasing its accuracy and utility. All things considered, the method bridges the gap between useful written notes and spoken content, significantly increasing productivity, understanding, and information retention. Because of its real-time processing capability, which provides users with rapid, reliable, and contextually relevant notes, it is particularly well-suited for lectures, meetings, and conversations. The experiment shows how note-taking applications with AI capabilities could simplify knowledge management in both professional and academic contexts.

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Copyright © 2025 P. Naveen Raj, M. Madesh, M. S. Ramesh, S. Venkata Lakshmi . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.