{Hardware} maker Plaud launched a brand new AI notetaker referred to as Plaude NotePin S, together with a desktop app that helps you’re taking notes for digital conferences, forward of this 12 months’s Client Electronics Present (CES) in Las Vegas.
The corporate first launched its pin-styled notetaker in 2024, which my former colleague Brian Heater actually preferred. The brand new pin brings a bodily button that allows you to begin and cease the recording. Plus, through the recording, you possibly can faucet the button to focus on a sure level — identical to you are able to do on the newly launched Plaud Observe Professional.
One good factor concerning the $179 Plaud NotePin S is that you just get a clip, a lanyard, a magnetic pin, and a wristband within the bundle. Which means you possibly can put on the machine nevertheless you want. The corporate can be including Apple Discover My help for the pin, with the intention to simply search for the machine when you can’t discover it.
The core specs of the machine stay the identical from the earlier era. There’s 64GB of onboard storage with a battery capability of 20 hours of steady recording. The machine has two MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Techniques) mics that may seize clear audio inside 9.8 toes of vary. Customers will get 300 minutes of transcription per thirty days at no cost and
As in comparison with the Observe Professional, this machine has a shorter recording vary and decrease battery life. However it’s smaller in measurement to hold utilizing any of the above talked about accesories. The corporate mentioned that the pin is suited to people who find themselves continually on the go.
That is Plaud’s fourth machine, and the corporate has offered greater than 1.5 million units till now. With these units, the main target has been on in-person conferences. Nonetheless, Plaud additionally desires to tackle assembly notetakers like Granola, Fathom, and Fireflies with a brand new desktop shopper that works throughout assembly apps. The corporate mentioned that the app can detect when a gathering is lively and immediate you to seize the transcript.
The Mac app takes notes utilizing system audio to seize the assembly, after which constructions the transcription into notes utilizing AI. The corporate launched multimodal inputs for notetaking with its app that enables customers so as to add photos and typed notes together with audio transcription final 12 months. Plaud is bringing that performance to its desktop app as nicely.
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