Anker’s new AI voice recorder is the size of a coin

The coin-sized Work is designed to beryllium discreet but includes LEDs that bespeak erstwhile it’s recording. | Image: Anker

Anker is the latest institution to denote an AI-powered dependable recorder designed to transcribe, summarize, and item important moments from a speech oregon meeting. Its functionality is akin to what’s offered by devices similar the Bee oregon Plaud NotePin, but the Soundcore Work manages to further shrink the hardware down to an adjacent smaller coin-sized wearable.

Launching successful September with a wider planetary rollout expected aboriginal this year, the Work measures conscionable 0.91 inches crossed — and portion that’s little than the diameter of a quarter, the recorder is really a spot thicker than a coin. It’s priced astatine $99.99, which includes “basic services,” but Anker volition besides beryllium offering a $15.99 per period subscription that includes further features not yet revealed.

The Work is designed to beryllium attached to a lanyard oregon worn connected your covering utilizing a magnetic clip. Weighing conscionable 10 grams, it’s tiny and lightweight but inactive manages up to 8 hours of artillery life, according to Anker. If that’s not enough, the Work’s proprietary charger has a artillery of its ain that volition support it powered for up to 32 hours.

Instead of capturing each enactment you person each time long, the Work lone starts signaling audio done its dual mics erstwhile tapped, portion a treble pat lets you people important parts of a speech that are highlighted aboriginal successful transcripts.

The recorder uses on-device GPT-4o to transcribe audio recordings successful much than 100 languages. Both the transcripts and audio recordings are disposable successful the Soundcore mobile app and tin beryllium searched oregon exported to different formats. Anker says recordings are encrypted and processed locally for privateness reasons but tin beryllium bounced done the unreality if you tendency to stock them with someone.