Getting started with Custom AI Companion features
With Custom AI Companion, you can customize your Zoom experience with advanced AI features, including meeting summary templates, third-party integrations, custom avatars, and more. These features are designed to help meet unique organizational needs.
Requirements for Custom AI Companion
- Custom AI Companion is a paid add-on that requires a Zoom Workplace Pro or higher account. For more information, contact Sales.
Custom AI Companion features
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| Allow AI to reference the organization's data sources | Allow AI to reference knowledge collections created in AI Studio as data sources to answer user queries within the Zoom application. |
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| Allow AI to consume your organization's custom dictionaries | As an admin, improve AI transcription accuracy by creating custom dictionaries tailored to your organization’s terminology in AI Studio. |
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| Allow AI to use custom agents to complete tasks | AI will use custom agents created in AI Studio to find information and take actions based on user requests. |
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| Allow Zoom AI to join third-party meetings | Allow Zoom AI to join your Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meetings to transcribe and/or record. Users need to connect to a calendar service in their web profile page. |
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| Meeting summary templates | Select a meeting summary template that includes dynamic placeholders and pre-defined sections to reflect the tone, structure, and focus of each meeting. |
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| Create custom avatars | Users can generate avatar-based videos by using text input which their avatar converts into spoken content, maintaining their likeness and voice characteristics. |
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| Allow AI to perform tasks in third-party apps | Allow AI to perform tasks on your behalf in third-party apps configured within AI Studio. |
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| Allow users to use third-party apps in AI on web workflows | Users can connect to built-in third-party apps in AI Companion. These third-party apps are available exclusively within workflows to perform actions through integrations. |
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| Allow users to send SMS from workflows | Enable users to send SMS from workflows |
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| Allow users to send voice messages from workflows | Enable users to send voice messages from workflows |
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How to enable or disable custom AI Companion
Enable or disable custom AI companion for the entire account
This setting allows account owners or admins to enable or disable custom AI companion for all users in the account.
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit account settings.
- In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or initials, then click Admin Center.
- In the side menu, click Settings
. - Click Zoom AI.
- Under Custom AI Companion section, click the toggle next to a custom AI companion feature to enable or disable it.
Notes: Some AI features are only available at the account and group levels. - If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
- (Optional) To prevent all users in your account from changing this setting, click the lock icon
, and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
Enable or disable custom AI companion for a group of users
This setting allows account owners or admins to enable or disable custom AI companion for a specific group of users. Changes apply only to users in the selected group.
- Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an admin with the privilege to edit groups.
- In the top-right corner, click your profile picture or initials, then click Admin Center.
- In the side menu, click Users
. - Click Groups.
- Click the applicable group name from the list.
- In the General configuration section, click Edit product settings.
- Click the Zoom AI tab.
- Under Custom AI Companion section, click the toggle next to a custom AI companion feature to enable or disable it.
- If a verification dialog appears, click Enable or Disable to verify the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and must be changed at that level. - (Optional) To prevent all users in the group from changing this setting, click the lock icon
, and then click Lock to confirm the setting.
Learn more about configuring custom AI Companion features.
Note on Data Usage
Zoom does not use any customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communications-like content (such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions) to train Zoom’s or its third-party AI models.
Please refer to the Zoom Privacy Statement for additional details on how Zoom processes personal data to provide its products and services.