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AI meeting notes in Taiwan.
Taiwan runs on face-to-face meetings and long factory-floor walkthroughs — GetNotes captures the room a video-call bot never gets invited to.
So much of how business actually gets decided in Taiwan happens in a physical room: a supplier review around a conference table in Hsinchu, a distributor negotiation over tea, a project kickoff where the whole team squeezes into one meeting room rather than dialing in. Video-call note-takers were built for remote calls and simply cannot join these conversations — there is no meeting link to paste a bot into. GetNotes takes the opposite approach: you open a browser tab on the phone already in your pocket, press record, and set it on the table. Nothing to install, no bot avatar staring back at anyone.
Taiwanese meetings are rarely mono-lingual. A single sentence often carries Mandarin as the base, English for technical and product terms, and Taiwanese Hokkien for emphasis or rapport — sometimes all three before the speaker takes a breath. Generic transcription tools force you to pick one language and then mangle everything else. GetNotes is built for exactly this mid-sentence code-switching, and it outputs a clean Traditional Chinese transcript rather than the Simplified script used across the strait, so the notes read the way your colleagues actually write.
The output is speaker-labelled, which matters more than it sounds. In a semiconductor supply-chain review or a hardware design meeting, who committed to a spec change and who raised the objection is the whole point of the record. GetNotes separates voices and attributes each line, then generates structured AI minutes — decisions, owners, action items, open questions — so you are not re-listening to 90 minutes of audio to reconstruct what was agreed.
On the consent and legal side, be straight with the room. Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act governs how personal data — including voice recordings that identify people — is collected, processed and used. As a practical courtesy and to stay on the right side of the law, tell participants they are being recorded and why, and get their agreement before you start; this is good manners in Taiwanese business culture regardless of the statute. GetNotes stores your recordings and transcripts privately to your account and lets you delete any meeting permanently whenever you want, so you control retention rather than leaving audio scattered across a dozen phones.
GetNotes is free for your first meeting so you can test it on a real factory walkthrough or a client lunch before committing. Pro is $19/month for unlimited meetings when it becomes part of how your team works. For a market where the important conversations still happen shoulder-to-shoulder — on the line, in the showroom, across the table — that is the whole pitch: capture the physical room, not just the video call.
Where it earns its keep
Supplier review on the Hsinchu factory floor
A procurement lead walks a component line with two engineers and the vendor's account manager. The conversation moves as they walk — yield rates, a tolerance change, a delivery slip for the next lot — and half of it is Mandarin with English part numbers dropped in. A laptop bot is useless here; there is no call. The lead records on their phone browser, and afterwards GetNotes returns a speaker-labelled Traditional Chinese transcript plus minutes listing the agreed spec change and who owns the follow-up sample.
Distributor negotiation over a working lunch in Taipei
A sales director meets two regional distributors at a restaurant to renegotiate margins and territory. Nobody wants a stranger's laptop on the table recording a bot session, but everyone agrees to a discreet phone recording once it is explained. GetNotes captures the code-switching between Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien and the occasional English pricing term, and produces minutes the director can circulate the same afternoon while the terms are still fresh.
Cross-functional project kickoff in one room
Engineering, marketing and operations pack into a single meeting room for a product launch kickoff — everyone in person, no dial-in. Action items fly fast. The project manager records from a phone propped against a water bottle, and GetNotes turns the hour into a clean list of decisions and owners, each line attributed to the person who said it, so the kickoff doc writes itself.
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 Taiwan?
Recordings that can identify people are personal data under Taiwan's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which governs how such data is collected, processed and used. This is general information, not legal advice — the practical takeaway is to tell participants you are recording, explain the purpose, get their agreement before you start, and keep recordings only as long as you need them. GetNotes stores everything privately to your account and lets you delete any meeting permanently.
Does it handle Mandarin mixed with English and Taiwanese in the same sentence?
Yes. Mid-sentence code-switching is a core design goal — GetNotes is built to follow a speaker who moves between Mandarin, English technical terms and Taiwanese Hokkien without you having to pick one language up front. It supports 90+ languages overall.
Do the transcripts come out in Traditional or Simplified Chinese?
Traditional Chinese, matching how Taiwan reads and writes, so the notes are ready to circulate without conversion.
Do I need to install an app or add a bot to a call?
Neither. GetNotes runs in your phone's web browser — you open a tab, press record, and put the phone on the table. There is no app to install and no meeting bot, which is exactly why it works for in-person meetings that have no video-call link at all.
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