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Does Read AI join the meeting as a bot?

Yes. Read AI joins your call as a visible participant. It requests permission to join, gets its own tile in the participant list, and posts a message in the meeting chat. Anyone can remove it. Reline never joins anything: capture runs locally on your own machine, so the participant list stays exactly the people on the call.

Short answer

Yes. Read AI joins your call as a visible participant. It requests permission to join, gets its own tile in the participant list, and posts a message in the meeting chat. Anyone can remove it. Reline never joins anything: capture runs locally on your own machine, so the participant list stays exactly the people on the call.

The details

  • 01Read AI's own guidance says the notetaker does not try to blend in. It announces who added it, appears as a participant and posts in the chat, so everyone on the call can see it is there.
  • 02Removing it is a participant action. In Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Zoom you remove the notetaker from the participant list the same way you would remove a person. Typing Read Stop in the chat makes it leave, and Opt Out deletes what it captured.
  • 03It arrives from your calendar. Once auto-join is on it defaults to meetings that carry a conferencing link, which is why people keep finding it in calls they never consciously invited it to.
  • 04Reline has no bot to admit or remove. It records the audio your computer plays plus your microphone, locally on macOS, Windows or Linux, and it also runs in the browser.
  • 05The trade is stated plainly: capture is local, transcription in 60+ languages and AI summaries run in the cloud, and the audio stays in the note so you can press play on any transcript line and hear it back.
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