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How to set and change the meeting summary language

The transcript is always created in the language spoken during the meeting. For the summary you can decide: by default it follows the meeting language as well, but you can also have it written in your own language or set one fixed language for every summary.

This guide shows you where to find the setting, what the three options do, and how admins define one language for the whole organization.

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  1. Where to find the setting
  2. Available options

1. Where to find the setting​

  1. Open Settings at the bottom of the left sidebar.
Sally sidebar with the Settings entry highlighted at the bottom left
Figure 1: Open Settings
  1. Under Configuration, select Meeting Assistant and then the Summary tab.
  2. Expand the Language settings for summaries section. The three options are listed under Language of the summary.
Summary tab in the Meeting Assistant with the language settings for summaries expanded
Figure 2: Open Meeting Assistant and Summary

2. Available options​

There are three ways to set the language of your summaries.

Remember to save

As soon as you pick a different option, the Unsaved changes note appears at the bottom of the section. The new setting only takes effect once you click Save.

2.1. In the meeting language​

Sally detects the language spoken in the meeting automatically and writes the summary in it. This is the default.

Language settings for summaries section with the option In the meeting language selected
Figure 3: Summary in the meeting language
When to use this

Useful if participants or teams expect the summary in the same language as the conversation.

2.2. In my language​

Every user receives the summary in the language of their own interface. An English meeting therefore reaches you in English and a colleague whose Sally is set to German in German.

Language settings for summaries section with the option In my language selected
Figure 4: Summary in each user's own language
When to use this

Best if you want all summaries in your main working language, consistent across every meeting, no matter what language was spoken.

2.3. In another language​

Pick a fixed language from the Specific language dropdown. It then applies to every summary, independent of the meeting language and of the individual users' languages.

Language settings for summaries section with the option In another language and German selected
Figure 5: One fixed language for all summaries
When to use this

Ideal for reporting or stakeholder communication when summaries are always needed in a fixed language, for example always in French, even if the meeting was in English.

For owners and admins

With the Defined organization-wide toggle, the selected option applies to the entire organization. Only those two roles have that toggle, members do not. The section then carries the Organization-wide label in the top right corner, and every user receives their summaries by the same rule.