Real-time transcription can be excellent for distributed meetings as well. We do this on some teams at Mozilla (e.g., Servo and Rust) for all of our group meeti

Real-time transcription can be excellent for distributed meetings as well. We do this on some teams at Mozilla (e.g., Servo and Rust) for all of our group meetings, which allows people who either couldn't make it, don't dial in to the video conference, have a poor internet connection, or where english is their second (and sometimes third) language to participate. Though I'll be the first to admit that I'm in awe of the skills of their stenographer; I'm not nearly that fast, and rely on other meeting participants to fix up my typos (especially in code) in our collaborative editor, https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ https://etherpad.mozilla.org/