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How Jump handles attendees & speakers in meetings

Jump helps you maintain accurate records of who attended your important conversations.

Bailey Schramm avatar
Written by Bailey Schramm
Updated over a week ago

Who can use this feature?

  • Full users

  • Lite users

Jump tracks meeting participants in two ways: Attendees (pulled from calendar invites) and Speakers (pulled from meeting transcripts).

The system automatically links these participants to your CRM contacts and Jump users when possible for accurate notes and record-keeping.



What are attendees?

Attendees are pulled from the calendar event invite. They usually have a name and email address.

Attendees might include your teammates, clients, and even non-person entries (like meeting rooms).

Note: The most reliable way to ensure Jump knows who's in your meeting is to make sure everyone you want tracked is added to the calendar invite.


What are speakers?

Speakers are pulled from the meeting transcript. Some video tools (e.g., Zoom) identify who's speaking based on the microphone/device name. This is called microphone-based diarization.

But, if we only have raw audio (like when the meeting was captured in person or using Join My Call), Jump uses AI to intelligently figure out who those voices belong to. In this case, you may see labels like "Speaker 1" or "Speaker 2" instead of specific names.

However, Jump still tries to discern voices by using context like:

  • Names mentioned in the transcript

  • The calendar attendee list

Note: If you need to upload an audio file to Jump, first click on the correct meeting from the All past tab to attach it to the corresponding calendar event. That way, Jump can use the attendee list to help match speakers.



How Jump links attendees & speakers to known people

Step 1: Match by email to CRM contacts

If an attendee or speaker has an email address and isn't already linked to a CRM contact:

  • Jump looks in your CRM for a contact with that email

  • If found, they're linked together

Step 2: Fill in missing calendar attendees

For each attendee from the calendar invite who has an email but isn't already represented, Jump will:

  • Look up their CRM contact

  • If no one else in the meeting is already linked to that contact:

    • It will connect them to the contact if there’s a speaker in the meeting with a similar name, but no link

    • Otherwise, Jump will add them to the meeting and link to the contact

Step 3: Repeat for Jump users

We repeat these steps, but look for Jump users instead of CRM contacts.


Why duplicates sometimes happen

Speakers from the transcript often don't have emails, though calendar attendees almost always do have emails.

If Jump can't confidently match a speaker to an attendee (e.g., "Addie Nguyen" from the calendar vs. "Addie from the transcript), both will show up separately.

Note: If you see duplicates, check if the unlinked one has an email. If not, you can link them manually in Jump using the steps below. This will help future meetings match automatically.


How to manually link a participant

If Jump was not able to automatically link a meeting participant to a contact in your CRM or a fellow Jump user, you can attempt to do so manually.

From the meeting attendees list, click on the name of the unlinked participant.

This will open a dropdown menu, where you can either Link to contact or Link to Jump user.

When you manually link people in Jump:

  • If two attendees/speakers are linked to the same Jump user → they merge

  • If two are linked to the same CRM contact → they merge

Note: If one is linked to a CRM contact and the other is linked to a Jump user with the same email, they won't merge yet.


How to view attendee & speaker status

The attendees list on a past meeting helps you view a participant’s status at a glance. Here’s what the different styles mean:

  • Dotted border pill: Unconfirmed & not linked to a CRM contact or Jump user

  • Solid pill + Jump logo: Linked to a Jump user

  • Solid pill + CRM icon: Linked to a CRM contact

  • Dotted pill + source icon (coming soon): Unconfirmed, but shows where they came from (e.g., Zoom, Calendar, Phone, Teams, etc.)

These styles help you instantly see:

  • Who is confirmed vs. unconfirmed

  • Whether they came from your CRM, Jump, or just the raw meeting data

  • Where the attendee or speaker originated


Recapping the full lifecycle

  1. Jump pulls in calendar attendees and transcript speakers

  2. We link by email to CRM contacts and Jump users

  3. We fill in missing attendees by matching names or creating new entries

  4. Users can manually link participants if needed

  5. Participants will auto-merge if they're the same CRM contact or Jump user

  6. Attendees are displayed with the correct pill style so you can see their status at a glance



Quick tips to get the best linking results

  • Start your meetings from a calendar event. This ensures Jump has a full attendee list to match against.

  • Always invite client contacts to the calendar event using the same email they have in your CRM.

  • Attach audio files to the calendar event if you upload recordings after the fact. Jump can then use the event's attendee list to help match voices.

  • Review unconfirmed pills after meetings. Linking them once will make future meetings link automatically.

  • Use clear, consistent names in your calendar invites to improve fuzzy-match accuracy.



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