Granola transcripts now tag who's speaking on Meet and Zoom
By Steven Van ·
The feature, on by default once enabled in Settings, lets Chat answer questions about what a specific person said in a meeting.
Granola made its meeting notes know who's talking. Transcripts can now tag who said what on Google Meet and Zoom, which means clearer notes, sharper action items, and smarter answers when you ask Chat something like, "What did Sam say about the launch timing?"
Attribution changes everything downstream
A transcript without speaker attribution is a wall of text, useful, but flat. Knowing who said what transforms it. Action items get owners ("Sam owns the launch date"), decisions get attributed to the people who made them, and disagreements are legible instead of blurred. Speaker Tags aren't just a nicer transcript; they're the foundation that makes everything Granola builds on top, notes, action items, chat, meaningfully more accurate.
The query example is the point
Granola's example, asking "What did Sam say about the launch timing?", shows why this matters for its AI features. Without speaker tags, the AI can find that launch timing was discussed but not who said what. With them, it can answer person-specific questions, which is exactly how people actually recall meetings: not "what was said" but "what did she say." That's a real jump in how useful the notes are after the meeting ends.
Where it works
Speaker Tags cover Google Meet and Zoom, the two platforms most business meetings run on, so it applies to the bulk of what Granola's users record. Turning it on is a setting, once enabled, transcripts start attributing speech automatically. It builds on Granola's steady expansion (Android, more integrations) toward being a complete meeting-intelligence tool, not just a recorder.
Try it
Turn on Speaker Tags in Granola's Settings. After your next Meet or Zoom call, test the payoff by asking Chat a person-specific question about what someone said, and see how much sharper the answer is than a speaker-blind transcript would give.
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