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AI meeting notes in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's deal-making is fast, in-person and tri-lingual — GetNotes records the boardroom and the coffee-shop meeting a video bot can never reach.
Hong Kong is a city of face-to-face business. Deals move in glass boardrooms in Central, in cha chaan teng breakfasts, in site visits across Kowloon and the New Territories, and in the corridor conversations that happen because everyone is physically close together. Remote meeting bots have nothing to attach to in these rooms — there is no link, no host, no Zoom call. GetNotes fits the actual workflow: open your phone browser, hit record, lay the phone on the table. No app download, no bot, no laptop lid open between you and the person you are trying to read.
Language in a Hong Kong meeting is genuinely tri-lingual and fluid. A single exchange can run in Cantonese, pivot to English for legal, finance or technical terms, and shift into Mandarin the moment a mainland counterparty joins — often within one sentence. Tools that assume a single language collapse the moment the room switches. GetNotes is built for this mid-sentence code-switching, so the transcript holds together instead of turning the English clauses or the Mandarin aside into gibberish.
The value of speaker labels is high in a market this deal-dense. In an M&A discussion or a fund-raising pitch, the record of who conceded a point and who asked for the extra warranty is the record that matters. GetNotes attributes each line to a speaker and then distils the meeting into AI minutes — the decisions, the commitments, the follow-ups — so the associate is not transcribing audio at midnight to produce a memo.
On privacy, Hong Kong is well-defined and worth respecting explicitly. The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO), Cap. 486, enforced by the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (the PCPD), governs the collection and handling of personal data, and a voice recording that identifies participants is personal data. This is general information rather than legal advice: the sensible and courteous practice is to tell everyone in the room you are recording, say what the notes are for, and get their agreement first. GetNotes keeps your recordings and transcripts private to your account and lets you delete any meeting permanently, so retention stays a decision you make rather than an accident.
You can try GetNotes free on your first meeting — a client breakfast or a site walk is a good test — and move to Pro at $19/month once your team relies on it. In a city where the important word is still given in person, over dim sum or across a negotiating table, the point is simple: GetNotes captures the room itself, not a call that was never scheduled.
Where it earns its keep
Corporate finance meeting in a Central boardroom
A deal team sits across from a target company's management to walk through terms. The conversation alternates between Cantonese among the local principals, English for the term-sheet language, and Mandarin when the mainland investor speaks. Nobody wants a third-party bot on a call, but a phone recording with everyone's agreement is unremarkable. GetNotes returns a speaker-labelled transcript and a minutes doc capturing each concession and the owner of every follow-up item.
Client breakfast at a cha chaan teng
An account manager meets a client for an early breakfast to renew a services contract. It is loud, informal and entirely in person — no call to bot. They record from a phone tucked beside the teapot after a quick heads-up, and GetNotes handles the Cantonese-English mix, producing a tidy summary of the renewal terms and next steps before the account manager is back at the office.
Property or site inspection in the New Territories
A surveyor and two agents walk a warehouse unit with a prospective tenant, noting defects, fit-out constraints and the tenant's requirements as they move. There is no meeting link to record — the meeting is the walk. The surveyor records on their phone browser, and GetNotes turns the walk-and-talk into an attributed transcript and an action list of what each party agreed to check.
How GetNotes works
- Record or upload. Hit record on your phone or laptop in the room — or drop in an audio file you already have. No bot joins anything.
- It writes it down. Every word transcribed, every speaker labelled, in 90+ languages including ones that switch mid-sentence.
- Share the minutes.Summary, decisions, and action items with owners — ready before everyone's back at their desk.
Questions, answered
Which data-protection law applies to my recordings in Hong Kong?
The Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO), Cap. 486, enforced by the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), governs personal data in Hong Kong, and an identifiable voice recording counts as personal data. This is general information, not legal advice. In practice: tell participants you are recording, explain the purpose, get their agreement before you start, and don't keep recordings longer than you need. GetNotes stores everything privately to your account with permanent delete available.
Can it follow Cantonese, English and Mandarin switching within one sentence?
Yes — that tri-lingual, mid-sentence switching is exactly what GetNotes is designed for. It won't force you to choose one language up front, and it supports 90+ languages in total, so the English legal terms and the Mandarin asides land correctly alongside the Cantonese.
There's no video call — does that mean I can't use a note-taker?
That is precisely the gap GetNotes fills. Meeting-bot tools need a call to join; an in-person meeting has none. GetNotes runs in your phone browser, so you record the physical room directly — no app, no bot, no link required.
Is my recording private, and can I delete it?
Recordings and transcripts are stored privately to your account, not shared by default, and you can permanently delete any meeting whenever you choose.
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