Microsoft's new Group Transcribe app is a multilingual tool for taking meeting notes, made exclusively for iPhone by the Microsoft Garage experimental team. Microsoft's Group Transcribe Microsoft Garage, the experimental research division of Microsoft, has released a free iOS-only app called Group Transcribe. Each person in a meeting runs the app on their iPhone, and it provides what Microsoft describes as "real-time, high quality transcription" of the conversation. "There is healthy debate about the productivity of multi-tasking," writes Microsoft's Lainie Huston on a Microsoft Garage blog. "Is it possible to take excellent notes while also being fully present in a meeting?"