How to Build an AI Workflow That Converts Meeting Recordings Into Tasks

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A technical guide published on DEV Community outlines how to automate the conversion of meeting recordings into structured notes and assignable tasks using AI tools. The workflow begins with Fireflies.ai transcribing the meeting audio, after which the raw transcript is sent to OpenAI's GPT-4 via an API call to extract a concise summary and a list of action items. The automation is orchestrated through n8n, an open-source workflow tool, which routes the AI-generated output into Notion for storing meeting minutes and Asana for creating assigned tasks. Optional Slack integration allows teams to receive an instant meeting report notification once the workflow completes. The entire setup is estimated to take two to three hours to build, using free or low-cost tiers of each tool involved.

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