In a posting on its official blog Zoom officially launched its first word processor tool, Zoom Docs. This tool aims to enhance meeting effectiveness thanks to the AI Companion and is available in the video conferencing app.

Zoom Docs is now available for free and paid subscribers at no additional cost. Free users are limited to 10 shared docs and unlimited personal docs without an AI companion.

All paid Zoom Workplace plans with version 6.1.6 or later have no limit to the number of shared docs and have access to AI Companion.

“Zoom Docs is our first Zoom workplace product with generative AI built in from the ground up; it effortlessly transforms information from Zoom Meetings into actionable documents and knowledge bases, so teams can stay focused on meaningful work,” said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom.

Zoom Docs will create meeting summaries with meeting documents and claims to make co-editing easier. The AI Companion can make text longer or shorter, among other options. Zoom also contends that revision and content generation are easier on business documents. Zoom AI Companion can also alter the tone of a document to make it suitable for a specific audience, and users can also create meetings via Zoom Docs.

Zoom Docs can also catch grammatical errors and instantly translate text into nine languages. One crucial fact to keep in mind is that AI Companion, including AI Companion capabilities in Zoom Docs, can be restricted by region.

Teams can not only create documents, they can also build wikis and manage workflows seamlessly, all on the Zoom platform.

“Collaboration is shifting from point products to a single unified platform, bringing together multiple forms of communication,” said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research. “Zoom’s newest innovations, including how it integrates AI in a way that makes sense for its customers, shows how it delivers a single solution to address all collaboration needs. With the addition of Zoom Docs and its purpose-built AI capabilities, Zoom is well-positioned to reimagine the way we collaborate at work and beyond.”

Increasing productivity during hybrid work

Powered by AI: Jumpstart creation by asking AI Companion to help edit or change Doc tones, brainstorm, and summarise or query the content to quickly get caught up. AI Companion can pull in information across Zoom Meetings and Team Chat too, streamlining the way you share information across Zoom.

Tightly integrated: Natively embedded into the Zoom experience and integrated with third-party apps to streamline collaboration within a single, powerful workspace.

Easy to use: Designed for a variety of user needs to deliver a robust yet simple user experience that lowers the learning curve for getting started with Zoom Docs. Users can delegate tasks, get insights faster, and keep teams on track between meetings, so they can focus on their goals.

Built with collaborative work and content creation in mind, Docs brings a robust feature set and Zoom’s world-class user experience together in one solution, so teams can get to work.

Enhanced documents for a truly collaborative workspace: Use content blocks to pull information into customisable layouts and workflows. Table blocks help organise data, manage projects, track tasks, and manage schedules through columns, filters, and grouping.

Collaborate with a click: With Zoom Docs users can bring their teams together to get more done between meetings. Mention colleagues to loop them into timely discussions, add comments and threads to maintain context, and assign tasks, share, and collaborate to keep everyone on track.

Combine knowledge with wikis and shared folders: Create wikis to link all pages and embed them in a visual tree, so the team can instantly see how information is connected. Group pages into hierarchies to organize docs with folders for a more complete knowledge source.

Work directly in Meetings, Team Chat, or from the web: Seamlessly integrated into the Zoom platform, users can create, edit, and search Zoom Docs content within Meetings, Team Chat, and the Zoom desktop, web, and mobile apps.