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It has been on the cards for the last few months, but next week, it will finally happen. Facebook is closing its Workplace From Facebook Essential edition. The Essential edition is the freemium version. In a message that was sent out to users over the past week Facebook informed users that:
âWe are contacting you and other system administrators in your workplace to inform you that Workplace Essential is going away on February 10, 2021. To continue using Workplace, your organization needs to upgrade to our paid plan, Workplace Advanced, by this date.â
However, all is not lost. The message adds that if you want to upgrade to the paid version, or are undecided and might consider the paid version, Facebook is offering a free 180-day trial of Workplace Advanced to get you started. The paid version offers additional functionality like Insights, single sign-on (SSO) and live chat support.
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Transcription service Otter.ai has added a Chrome extension to enable customers using Google Meet to transcribe their meetings on the fly.
Microsoft began making live transcription available in Teams late last year via its own transcription service. But with Google Meet, there hasn’t been a good way to transcribe a meeting automatically as it happens; users report that Chrome plugins Google Meet Transcribe and Chat Transcribe don’t perform well. Otter.ai’s own Otter.ai plugin for Chrome steps in and uses the Otter service to provide the transcription. Zoom, for its part, already has an integration with Otter.