PLAUD: AI Voice Recorder 4+

Excellent hardware and equally important excellent application, I would rate the accuracy at 99% occasionally I’ve noticed a few seconds of transcription not picked up, however all and all, if you have lots of meetings where having a quick summary would be helpful, it will be worth it. I’ve even lent it to my girlfriend for her lectures and I’ve been so impressed that in the mind maps, it’s able to identify “participant asked..” I’ve been able to cancel my online transcription services , lastly people have been saying you can have ChatGPT transcribe, which isn’t totally true, you need a special ChatGPT engine which isn’t available via ChatGPT, meaning if I upload the wav or mp3 it will not be able to transcribe. That said, you can further upload your summaries, transcriptions and mind maps to use ChatGPT in conjunction; my girlfriend was able to use her summary, transcript and mind map to create a HTML webpage with multiple choice questions. This is a game changer for anyone that needs calls recorded and or meetings. I’ve since bought a 2nd one as a present. I guess I’ve bought some good hardware but only for a junk iOS app, this is excellent both on hardware side and software and I just hope they continue to maintain. Kudos and applause to Plaud!

The Plaud recorder and this app have in tandem changed the way I get my thoughts from my brain into reality. I occasionally use it for meetings and phone calls as it is mostly advertised, but the vast majority of use is completely personal. The ability to start recording with the start of a physical button and have it be transcribed and summarized by AI is something I have BEGGED for constantly over the last decade. This is without a doubt the best product I have ever encountered for that purpose.

Let me be clear. There are some issues with Plaud. The cost is quite high. The charger is obscure and hard to source if lost. It sometimes takes a couple tries to get recordings going.

But as a whole, if you are like me and desperate to get fleeting thoughts from your head into your phone with as little friction as possible, there is simply nothing superior to Plaud available. I hope to see updates in the future which improve the software, firmware, and app-side of this tool. Until then, I will be a power user of this life-changing resource.

I’ve purchased 3 different AI hardware devices and Plaude Note is the first to live up to its hype and accurately do what it is supposed to do. It works very well. After trying the free 300 min I instantly bought a yearly subscription of 1600 min a month. This works and it works incredibly well virtually flawlessly. This app and hardware is so far above any other app and or hardware I’ve tried there is no comparison. I could have saved money and just bought this first. I don’t even have any cons. I live this and hope developers don’t change too much because this lives up to the AI hype