{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 Shopper 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, in the course of the recording, you possibly can faucet the button to spotlight a sure level — similar to you are able to do on the newly launched Plaud Be aware Professional.
One good factor concerning the $179 Plaud NotePin S is that you simply get a clip, a lanyard, a magnetic pin, and a wristband within the bundle. Which means you possibly can put on the machine nonetheless you want. The corporate can also be including Apple Discover My assist for the pin, as a way to simply search for the machine in case 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 30 days totally free and
As in comparison with the Be aware 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 stated that the pin is fitted to people who find themselves always on the go.
That is Plaud’s fourth machine, and the corporate has offered greater than 1.5 million gadgets till now. With these gadgets, the main target has been on in-person conferences. Nevertheless, 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 stated that the app can detect when a gathering is energetic 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 permits customers so as to add photographs 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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